The most recent fire was on Saturday in a unit at Sereenas Housing for Women on Powell Street in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside
VANCOUVER — Vancouver city council agreed to seek $1 billion in provincial and federal funding two years ago to buy over 100 single-room occupancy hotels so that some 2,500 rooms, in very old buildings, could be renovated or turned into self-contained units.
“These buildings are very old. There are a lot of people packed in them that have a lot of needs. The electrical systems, and everything, is getting outdated, so the long term solution is to replace these hotels with units that aren’t going to burn down so easily.”The most recent fire was on Saturday in a unit at Sereenas Housing for Women on Powell Street in the Downtown Eastside, which is run by Atira Women’s Resource Society. It displaced 50 residents.
In early June, an e-bike battery explosion in the Hotel Empress killed one man, and in April, a blaze in the Winters Hotel in Gastown killed two people and forced more than 70 residents to move into a nearby hotel. However, what you can “put your finger on” is that building managers need to up their game in terms of fire safety, she said.
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