Vancouver mayor ‘definitely interested’ in temporary villages for hundreds.
TheTyee.ca A plan to house Vancouver’s homeless is taking shape on the drawing board of a local architect. It calls for the rapid erection of temporary villages assembled from the same type of modular units that mining companies provide for remote workers.

‘Stop Gap Housing’ is what architect Gregory Henriquez calls it.

‘All of us in this community have long been advocates for permanent housing,” he said. “But we’ve gotten to the point where the numbers of homeless are so staggering that I’m left wondering if we will ever catch up doing it that way. I don’t think we can. I think there has to be a stop-gap measure. And that’s what this is.’

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