From: Ad-Hoc Committee to End Homelessness
To: City of Victoria: Mayor, Councillors and Staff
- Provide $190,000 Operating Funds to Open 50 Overnight Shelter Beds at Our Place, 713 Johnson St., for Winter 2006/2007 (until March 31/07)
- Purchase/lease one of the following vacant buildings and convert to long-term affordable housing, with funds from the City of Victoria Affordable Housing Trust Fund and CRD Regional Housing Trust Fund:
- Janion Building, 1614 Store St. (owner: Clara Beatrice Kramer) – 24 units
- Caldwell Apartments, 2321 Cook St. (owner Robin Kimpton) – 14 units
- The Wing, 109 Wilson St (currently in receivership) – 48 units
- Crystal Garden/BC Experience Building, 713 Douglas St. (owner: Provincial Capital Commission) – approx 60 units
- Old CRD Building, 524 Yates St (owner: CRD) – approx 80 units
- Hudson’s Bay Company building, 1701 Douglas St – approx 450 units
- Draft and implement a Vacant & Derelict Buildings By-law, using City of Winnipeg By-law No. 35/2004 as a template, empowering the City to take title to buildings that have been vacant for 5 years, to be converted for affordable housing
- Write to Community Services Minister Ida Chong requesting amendments to the Community Charter authorizing the abovementioned By-Law
- Legalize Secondary Suites in all neighbourhoods in the City of Victoria, and review building permit and inspection fees/regulations that impede the expansion of this kind of affordable housing
Respectfully submitted by the Ad-Hoc Committee to End Homelessness
c/o victoria@communitysolidarity.org / 250-920-9091
HOUSING FOR ALL NOW
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