![]() Mayor Kennedy Stewart said the city is working closely with BC Housing and local social service agencies to find emergency shelters for those affected, while McMann said they hope to start getting people into permanent homes in days.Ītira Property Management, the non-profit that oversees the Winters Hotel, has set up a centre in the neighbourhood to help direct supports, Stewart said.įlames broke out in the 110-year-old building before noon on Monday and the fire department said the roof of the four-storey brick structure had collapsed within hours. ![]() "We're hopeful we can have the residents of the Gastown back before too long, but that's really not our call." We obviously have a shortage of housing throughout the Lower Mainland," said Dale McMann, the vice-president of operations for BC Housing. "Any time you lose 140, 150 rooms, it's devastating. In addition to 71 residents who lost their homes at the Winters Hotel, another 73 people who lived in the neighbouring Gastown Hotel were also evacuated due to toxic smoke damage and its location in the collapse zone of the charred structure, officials from the city's fire department and BC Housing said during a news conference.īoth hotels are rooming houses and are known as single-room occupancy buildings, or SROs, housing some of the city's lowest-income residents. VANCOUVER - A building that was reduced to a shell by a fire in Vancouver's Gastown neighbourhood will likely be demolished, while the number of residents displaced by the blaze has risen to 144, officials said Tuesday.
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