B.C. is devoting $76 million in new money to buy land, build 200 additional modular supportive-housing units and deliver services for people who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless.
Those new units will be on top of the 2,000 modular units already committed throughout B.C. Of those, 800 units have been set up and opened.
New modular units will offer both interim and permanent housing. The goal is to allow the province to respond when homelessness issues arise in communities.
Homeless camps have sprung up across B.C., including in the capital region.
Nanaimo had the largest tent city in B.C. last year, with more than 300 residents. It was dismantled when 170 modular supportive housing units were set up for its residents.
Although the tent city is gone, there are camps of different sizes around the Nanaimo region. The precise number of homeless people in that region is unclear. — Times Colonist
