Vancouver goes mobile with movable, modular housing in bid to fight homelessness
Vancouver is going mobile in its latest approach to end homelessness.
The city is looking for a company to design a series of transportable housing units aimed at getting some of the municipality’s most vulnerable people off the streets and into temporary accommodation.
A tender posted online says the units are to measure about 150 square feet, about the size of a shipping container, with sleeping quarters and a washroom.
They should also be able to stack together and connect to a 1,000- to 1,5000-square-foot communal area with a cooking facility, says the tender.