Affordable housing study next initiative for City of Nanaimo
NANAIMO – The City of Nanaimo has completed their low barrier housing project, but issues still remain.
At any time there’s an estimated 150 to 300 people classified as homeless in the city, according to Nanaimo’s social planner John Horn.
Horn says they’ve been able to maintain the status quo, which admittedly may not sound like good news.
“When you watch our sister cities around us, Victoria and Vancouver, you see that they’ve had significant increases in the number of homeless people in their streets. Whereas we’re sort of holding the line if you will,” said Horn. “Sad to say as it is, that’s a victory in this world. We’ve not seen the explosive growth in the homeless population that other cities have.”