Welcome to NYSA’s Nanaimo Regional Youth Housing Stability Hub.
Trying to Stay Housed?
Explore tenant rights, utility grants, affordability and interactive tools to protect your housing.
Want to solve regional housing instability?
Access hyper-local rental data, find tools for landlords, or partner with us to prevent homelessness.
The State of Youth Housing Insecurity in Our Region
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Average rent increase in our area over the past 12 months.
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Of local young workers paying unaffordable rent (>30% of income).
Youth kept safely housed through our prevention network this year.
Saved in public crisis funding for every single youth kept housed via prevention.
Is your rent technically unaffordable? Slide your numbers into our anonymous calculator to check your housing stress level and see instant next steps.
Are you a local landlord? Learn how partnering with our housing stabilization framework mitigates tenant risk while keeping local youth safely housed.
Insights, Action, and Innovation
The Cost of Prevention
Every night, a young person sleeps at an emergency shelter — stressed, disoriented, and carrying everything they own. The shelter staff is caring. The bed is safe. But by the time that young person walks through the door, the system has already failed them. This is…
Why Point-in-Time Counts Don’t Reflect Accurate Youth Numbers
Once every two years, a team of volunteers fans out across a city between midnight and 4am. They count the people sleeping outside, in shelters, in transitional housing. They submit their tally. The number gets published. Politicians cite it. Funders reference it….
Are you an organization or community member looking to coordinate care? Contact our regional intake team directly at [Email/Phone].
Are you a young person in immediate housing distress? Click the red Quick Escape button at any time, or click here for our verified text-to-help network.”