The City of Nanaimo has had emails and Facebook posts with concerns about supportive housing projects studied and summarized
The planning for social housing in Nanaimo—as in cities and towns in many parts of Canada—has been accompanied by concerns from neighbours in areas where the facilities will be built. NIMBYism is common, but so are fears (whether real or not) about what impacts social housing projects might have on neighbourhoods.
Last month, a report called Supported Housing in the City of Nanaimo [opens to PDF] was prepared for the City of Nanaimo by ofcity consulting. It examined the myriad of concerns expressed about supported housing and sorted them into 14 categories. The major recommendation to emerge from that report was that the city improve its public engagement approaches for similar projects in future.
We’re joined in the studio by Katelyn McDougall, project manager at ofcity consulting.
