The City of North Vancouver is offering up a city-owned home to be used for a women's shelter.
Council voted March 29 to forgo $24,000 in revenue from renting the house so North Shore Crisis Services Society can operate transitional housing for women and children seeking shelter from domestic abuse.
The crisis society will use the house rent-free for a year while the society waits for their permanent location in the District of North Vancouver to be renovated.
Because the 2014 balanced budget required that revenue, the city will shore up the funds from its affordable housing reserve fund.
The motion passed 7-0 with little discussion except one comment of support from Coun. Linda Buchanan.
"I totally support this use of funding from the affordable housing reserve fund. I think it's completely acceptable in terms of supporting some of our most vulnerable, if not the most vulnerable, people in our community," she said.
