For more information on supportive housing in Surrey, visit letstalkhousingbc.ca/surrey. However, there was a hope that the project would be finished in time for the Aug. 31 closure of one of the temporary modular housing sites in Whalley. Housing Supports and Outreach. In the short term, the City of Surrey and BC Housing have partnered to open three sites in the City Centre area for short-term transitional accommodation units.
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READ ALSO: Surrey Mounties arrest 23 low-income housing activists in Whalley, Aug. 19, 2020. Poster boards from that meeting are available below: Surrey is in a housing crisis and over 600 people across the city are experiencing homelessness. as Dr. Henry clarifies school exposure protocols, ‘Won’t be gathering for Thanksgiving:’ Trudeau says COVID-19 2nd wave underway. Two sites have already been identified for the temporary homes, and the province says 250 permanent units are also on the way.
The City of Surrey, BC Housing, Fraser Health, and community agencies are working together to address the city’s urgent need for housing with supports for people experiencing homelessness. Surrey director of public safety Terry Waterhouse said despite the progress, the process is still not over. Two years ago the city’s empty home rate was at 6.7 per cent. She said there was a “grove of trees” on the property where the birds were nesting. A community open house was held on January 23, 2018 at the Chuck Bailey Recreation Centre.
The BC Temporary Rental Supplement (BC-TRS program) has now ended. Surrey Community Action’s Community Led Housing Project Manager David Cowan said: “As house prices in Surrey are now close to fourteen times the average salary and the typical monthly rent takes nearly half of a local worker’s basic pay, community led housing is a way to create homes that remain affordable and for local people in the future.
There are 1,371 active cases of COVID-19 in B.C. Brenda Locke.
Surrey's "Whalley Strip" remains clear a week after the area's homeless were moved into modular housing. See a small sampling of the affordable housing sites in Surrey.
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