Single Room Occupancy hotels

 SROs are “single room occupancy” hotels that provide long-term accommodation in single rooms, typically without private bathrooms or kitchens. The acquisiton of these buildings is  part of the Province’s housing strategy, Housing Matters BC , and the purchase is the largest single investment ever in this crucial type of housing stock. 

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On February 14, 2008, the Province announced the purchase of another six Single Room Occupancy (SRO) hotels with 330 units in Vancouver to reduce homelessness and help protect affordable housing stock for those most in need. Three of the purchases are vacant buildings (Pender, Marr and Rainier), meaning these 115 units will be new affordable housing units added to the current supply.

The purchase of the six buildings, all current or former SRO hotels in the Downtown Eastside, means the Province has now bought a total of 16 SRO hotels with 925 rooms in Vancouver, one SRO hotel in Victoria with 28 units and one SRO in New Westminster with 59 units over the past year.