BC Housing

Provides housing information and resources for anyone who is homeless or at risk of homelessness. Outreach workers come from Aboriginal, community-based organizations and are able to connect people and provide services from an Aboriginal perspective.

In both urban and rural regions of BC, outreach workers meet with people to listen to their housing and health needs, connect and or introduce them to required services, and try to match them with housing that's appropriate and available.

Provides transitional housing units to people in recovery from problematic substance use. Offers support services to help manage individual's addictions needs in preparation for long-term housing as a sustainable option. The 18-month program ensures that affordable housing and support services are available to individuals in recovery once they have completed detox and support recovery programs. Offered in partnership with Vancouver Coastal Health and Fraser Health.

Provides financial assistance in the form of a rebate, to help eligible low and moderate-income households' complete home adaptations for continued independent living in their home. Home updates can include items such as handrails, lever handles on doors, shower grab bars, ramps, and bathtub grab bars or seats.

Provides emergency shelter information and resources for anyone who is homeless or at risk of homelessness. Shelters include year-round shelters, temporary shelters and extreme winter shelters.

Emergency shelters provide a place to sleep, eat and wash. Some shelters may offer additional services such as medical support, meals, access to support staff and individualized help from a case worker, a secure area for belongings, and resource room with library, computers, phone or TV.

Provides outreach services to help people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. Outreach workers meet clients where they are such as on the street, in a shelter or in a temporary place; and listen to housing and health needs, connect and or introduce to required services, and try to match clients with housing that's appropriate and available.

The service has Health Services Coordinators throughout the province that assists BC Housing tenants in public housing developments on a variety of health-related issues. The coordinators do not offer medical advice, but they can direct clients to community services for help, including referrals to mental health services, grief support after the loss of a loved one, community health care, diabetes clinics, domestic violence units, and addictions counselling.

Provides supportive housing to seniors and people with disabilities who need support to continue living independently.

Supportive housing is for individuals who need some support services and are able to manage their own lifestyle, and subsidized assisted living for those who are in need of additional support to remain independent.

Provides low-income adults needing subsidized housing with on-site supports, a single point of access to register for supported housing that is funded through BC Housing. Applicants are able to register once, rather than registering with multiple housing providers.

Supportive housing provides a range of on-site, non-clinical supports, such as life-skills training, and connections to primary health care, mental health or substance use services.

Provides an online listing of transition houses and safe homes across the province for women, with or without children, who are at risk of violence, or who have experienced violence.

Women are provided with a temporary place to stay, emotional support, safety planning, crisis intervention, and referrals to other community programs as needed.