Housing

VIDEO: Wesley St. residents left with nowhere to go, dispersed into bushes and parks around Nanaimo

NANAIMO - A sizable number of people living rough in a downtown Nanaimo encampment are now displaced into the bush. Their former home on Wesley St. was cleared by City of Nanaimo staff and Nanaimo Fir...

Dec 04, 2020

Wesley St. tent encampment closed after fire destroys tents

NANAIMO - The largest tent encampment in Nanaimo is now closed after a fire. Between 60 and 100 people who lived on Wesley St. in downtown Nanaimo are forced to find new housing after the large fire o...

Dec 03, 2020

Rent bank to open in Nanaimo helping the most vulnerable stay housed

NANAIMO - A rent bank is opening to assist mid-Island renters on the brink of becoming homeless. It's slated to open in January with funding from the City of Nanaimo and will be operated by the Nanaim...

Dec 03, 2020

Slate of new affordable housing projects announced for Nanaimo, Parksville and Snuneymuxw First Nation

NANAIMO - New affordable housing projects will provide more than 150 living spaces throughout the mid island area. Three projects within Nanaimo, Parksville and Snuneymuxw First Nation was announced o...

Dec 02, 2020

Cold weather shelter re-opening in basement of Nanaimo's St. Peter's Church

NANAIMO - An overnight shelter will soon open to provide a warm bed to those living rough on Nanaimo streets. The shelter at St. Peter's Church on Machleary St. is slated to open for its third year on...

Nov 09, 2020

BC Housing steps in to co-operate rundown Fifth St. housing project

NANAIMO - BC Housing has stepped in to operate a dilapidated affordable housing complex in Nanaimo's Harewood neighbourhood. The Sanala townhouses on the corner of Fifth St. and Georgia Ave., is in a ...

Nov 02, 2020

Community Service Building finally opens to help vulnerable people living on Nanaimo streets

NANAIMO - The doors are finally open at a safe space for Nanaimo's homeless during the COVID-19 pandemic.The first women from Nanaimo's streets started moving into the Community Services Building on P...

Oct 30, 2020

City of Nanaimo cracking down on short-term, Airbnb-specific rentals

NANAIMO - Airbnb and short-term rentals are the focus of bylaw changes in Nanaimo. An amended bylaw would target homes which are exclusively used as short-term rentals year round. The governance and p...

Oct 29, 2020

Tents removed from Wesley St. encampment as City enforces fire safety order

NANAIMO - The City has taken it's first major enforcement effort against a growing downtown Nanaimo encampment.Nanaimo Fire Rescue, Nanaimo RCMP and City of Nanaimo bylaw officers enforced a recently ...

Oct 27, 2020

Nanaimo RCMP investigating 2 purposely set fires in same apartment building

NANAIMO - Police are trying to solve a pair of smouldering fires in common areas of a Wellington Rd. apartment building.RCMP Cst. Gary O'Brien told NanaimoNewsNOW papers were set ablaze in stairwells ...

Oct 27, 2020