Terrace to gain 22 more units of housing for Women, Children leaving violence

The Province of British Columbia is set to lend some assistance in the Terrace area, with that city one of a number of communities in the province to receive some additional housing stock, with 22 new spaces now to be made available for women and children who are fleeing domestic violence.

Minister Selina Robinson introduced the new government initiative last week, with the 22 spaces in Terrace part of the roll out of 260 spaces province wide.

“It’s encouraging to see communities and partners around the province working together to ensure that women and children have safe and secure places to go when they need help, Everyone deserves to live a life free of violence with hope for the future, and we are working hard to create more homes and opportunities for women and children to thrive.” --  Selina Robinson, Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing.

The Terrace spaces are the only ones that were announced for the Northwest from last week's information release by the province.

As the Ksan Society in Terrace noted on social media last week, the Terrace units will be hosted by the Ksan Society in partnership with Makola housing in that community.

The new spaces will be located at the corner of Munroe Street and Lazelle Avenue, the nature of the second stage housing project is to provide safe housing for a term of six to eighteen months.

You can learn more about the services offered in Terrace from the Ksan Society website here.

Last week's announcement of more housing for the Terrace area is just the latest in what has been a fairly robust approach by the NDP government to address the housing issues of that community.

As we noted on the blog last week, the Transition House Society in Prince Rupert recently provided an update on the range of housing services that they provide for 101 residents in the community.

One of the key takeaway from their update the note that most if not all of those units are currently fully occupied with the Society at times having to turn away those seeking shelter.

That should be an indication for local officials that there is still a fair bit of work ahead to provide for additional units of supportive and affordable housing in this community.

You can learn more about the work of the North Coast Transition House Society in the community from their Facebook page or website.

For more items of note on housing see our archive page here.

Notes related to provincial politics in the region can be found from our Legislature Archive page.

Cross posted from the North Coast Review