More security, stricter access installed at Terminal Ave. supportive housing
NANAIMO — Housing operators are hopeful the challenges of running an 80 unit temporary supportive housing project will be addressed by upcoming changes to the site.
Instead of a gate at 250 Terminal Ave, home to roughly 80 former residents of downtown Nanaimo’s tent city, there will be an office where people check in and out.
Violet Hayes, executive director of the housing operator Island Crisis Care Society, told NanaimoNewsNOW the office will be the only access to the housing development.
“Everyone coming in and out would be checking in with a staff member. I think that will really help us get a handle on what’s happening, along with better security around the site,” Hayes told NanaimoNewsNOW.