Hope for Home: Building an Immigrant Housing Action Plan Together
Hope for Home: Building an Immigrant Housing Action Plan Together is a community dialogue focused on the housing challenges faced by immigrants in the Greater Victoria region. This event will bring together key community partners and solution-makers to share real stories, explore solutions, and collaborate on building a collective immigrant housing plan. Through discussions, participants will address the pressing issues of affordability, accessibility, and inclusion to create actionable strategies for positive change.
Last November, we envisioned an Immigrant Housing Action Plan Together
On Friday, November 22, 2024, we gathered at the Esquimalt Gorge Park & Pavilion for an exciting dialogue focused on tackling the housing challenges faced by immigrants and refugees in our region. We came together on indigenous lands with open hearts and minds, acknowledging the continued displacement of the Indigenous peoples in our regions, to explore real inclusive solutions, share stories, challenge the anti-immigrant narratives, and create actionable strategies for positive change.
Discussion Guide: Hope for Home Building an Immigrant Housing Action Plan Together
During the event you will receive a “Discussion guide” with 10 stories that recount the experiences of immigrants and refugees who are searching, finding, and living in rental housing in the South Island region and other areas on Vancouver Island. The stories were gathered through a series of in-depth semi-structured interviews with service providers.
Discussion guide: Hope for Home Building and Immigrant Housing Action Plan Together
The stories included here represent the cumulative experiences of immigrants arriving on Vancouver Island, as recounted by their settlement workers and other community support workers. All personal details have been altered to maintain privacy and confidentiality. While none of these stories correspond exactly to any one individual’s story, these are the voices of real immigrants recounting actual experiences.
GVLIP Housing Resources
The Housing Sector Table provides guidance on housing matters for newcomers, immigrants, and refugees in the Greater Victoria area.
GVLIP Healthcare Resources
Our Health Sector Table works and advises on many healthcare issues facing newcomers, immigrants and refugees in Greater Victoria.
