Title
Motion with Notice: Supportive Housing in the Capital Region (Director Caradonna)
Recommendation
[At the April 3, 2024 Hospitals and Housing Committee meeting the following referral motion was carried:]
The Hospitals and Housing Committee recommends to the CRD Board:
To refer the following motion to staff to report back on the approach that would be taken and that a report come back to the Hospitals and Housing Committee:
“1. That the Board direct staff to work with the Reaching Home Program’s Community Advisory Board and/or the Alliance to End Homelessness in Greater Victoria to undertake studies, reports, or analyses on the following topics related to supportive housing across the Capital Region:
a) A high-level regional resource inventory on services and supports within each jurisdiction that aid unhoused people (e.g. food banks, support services, indoor shelters, and so on.)
b) An analysis of the parks, public spaces, or campgrounds available for overnight sheltering for unhoused people across the region;
c) In light of the Province handing down supportive housing targets for all jurisdictions over a certain population, an assessment of the potential role for the CRD to play, in collaboration with local governments and BC Housing, in advancing regional supportive housing and sheltering objectives.”
(NWA)