The City of Richmond announced Monday it will run a series of community forums on proposed Temporary Modular Housing (TMH) for homeless from April 17 to May 1.
The goal of the forums is to provide residents with an additional opportunity to learn more about homelessness in Richmond and the proposed project, and participants will also be able to ask questions and express their views, according to the city.
Interested residents are required to register on the city’s website (Richmond.ca/RapidResponsetoHomelessness) to attend these forums, and should indicate the dates they would like to go.
Those who register by Sunday, April 15 will receive a confirmation on April 16. Registration requests received after April 15 will be confirmed on a first-come first-serve basis.
Each session will accommodate no more than 25 participants. If there are more people interested in a particular date and time than there is capacity for, then registration will be determined by a lottery system, said the city.
The sessions will be held at Richmond City Hall. Three of them will have Chinese language facilitation (two Mandarin sessions and one Cantonese session).
"When you have a large group meeting, it’s difficult for individuals sometimes to get the information they want and have the opportunity to ask the questions they have," said the city’s spokesperson Ted Townsend.
“The city chose this structure so that everybody would have plenty of opportunities to get the information they need, ask questions and express their opinions."
To date, council has received 1,194 surveys, around 13,000 petition letters and 125 individual letters on the modular housing issue.
