To be introduced by David Stewart, Social Planner.
Purpose: To provide the Health and Housing Task Force with an update regarding the work to establish a rent bank in Nanaimo and request direction to provide funding from the Housing Legacy Reserve to support the proposed rent bank pilot project to be operated by the Nanaimo Region John Howard Society.
Recommendation: That the Health and Housing Task Force recommend that Council provide $90,603 from the Housing Legacy Reserve funds received through the Online Accommodation Tax (OAP) to the Nanaimo Region John Howard Society in order to operate a local rent bank as a temporary pilot project.