Glossary of Terms Assisted Living: Assisted living units are self-contained apartments for seniors or people with disabilities who need some support services to continue living independently, but do not need 24-hour care. Services provided include daily meals, social and recreational opportunities, assistance with medications, mobility and other care needs, a 24-hour response system and light housekeeping. Cold Wet Weather: Cold wet weather services include shelter facilities and services that operate and/or are funded on a seasonal basis. Shelters add cold wet weather beds (seasonal beds and mats) to provide the option of a warm, dry place to sleep for people who are homeless as winter weather sets in and the need increases. There are also emergency shelter facilities that are open during the winter months. Cooperative Housing: A housing development in which individual residents own a share in the cooperative. This share grants them equal access to common areas, voting rights, occupancy of an apartment or townhouse as if they were owners and the right to vote for board members to manage the cooperative. Each member has one vote and members work together to keep their housing well- managed and affordable. Core Housing Need: Households in core housing need are those individuals who currently reside in housing that is either in need of major repair, does not have enough bedrooms for the size and makeup of the household, or costs 30 per cent or more of their total income, and who are unable to rent an alternative housing unit that meets these standards without paying 30 per cent or more of their income.
Emergency Shelter: Short-stay emergency shelters provide single or shared bedrooms or dorm-type sleeping arrangements, with varying levels of support to individuals. Group Home: A small, community-based development, usually under 10 beds/ units, that provides affordable housing with supports to those with special needs including individuals with severe mental and physical disabilities and youth and women with their children fleeing abuse. BC Housing provides administration and property management support for group homes on behalf of other provincial ministries and health authorities. Housing Providers: Non-profit housing societies and housing cooperatives that own and manage subsidized housing developments. This term can also include private-market landlords through whom BC Housing provides rent assistance to low-income households. NIMBY: (Not-In-My-Back-Yard) Community opposition to new social housing developments based upon fear, assumptions and stereotypes that some people may harbour about the individuals that will live in these developments. Non-Profit Housing: Rental housing that is owned and operated by community-based, non-profit societies. The mandates of these societies are to provide safe, secure, affordable accommodation to households with low to moderate incomes. Most non-profit housing societies receive some form of financial assistance from government to enable them to offer affordable rents. Each society operates independently under the direction of a volunteer board of directors.
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