2023 Greater Victoria Point-in-Time Homeless Count and Housing Needs Survey

by Aleksija | May 22, 2024

The Community Social Planning Council of Greater Victoria conducted its fourth point-in-time (PiT) count on March 7 and 8, 2023. The count took place within the Victoria Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) with the support of 138 volunteers, local housing facilities, and...

Creating Homes, Enhancing Communities

by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 30, 2015

This is a plan to house individuals experiencing chronic homelessness in Greater Victoria. Using analysis of patterns of emergency shelter use, it estimates the number of individuals in the region who require support services in order to remain housed. It then creates...

Youth Pathways: In and Out of Homelessness in the Capital Region

by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 1, 2015

Research for this report was done in the fall of 2014 with 6 focus groups in different locations across Greater Victoria and 33 individual youth who identified as experiencing or being at-risk of homelessness. Fifty youth were also surveyed on the circumstances that...

Patterns of Homelessness in Greater Victoria

by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Nov 25, 2014

Homelessness is a persistent issue in Greater Victoria. In this report, we analyze longer-term patterns of homelessness for people who use emergency shelters in Victoria, BC.

NIMBY to Neighbours Fact Sheets

by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Nov 12, 2014

There are typically six common themes that emerge when talking about issues related to NIMBY and each of the themes will be explored to a series of Fact Sheets. The intention of these documents is to highlight the facts relating to common NIMBY concerns that arise...