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Never in her life did Donna Sharpe think she would be homeless.
The Lumby woman has a home, but the land beneath it is literally falling away and her house of 18 years has been condemned.
She has found a place to live since being told she must vacate the premises, but she can only stay there until the end of August.
After that, Sharpe does not know what she will do.
And despite talking to numerous agencies from the Regional District of North Okanagan to provincial officials, she has been left on her own with no hope of saving her home or recouping the hundreds of thousands of dollars she has put into her house that she was hoping to sell next year.
The land the Albers Road home sits on is slowly sinking, and provincial officials have told her she does not qualify for natural disaster relief.
Sharpe said the land her home sits on was approved for development by the province in the 1990s.
“In April, the land started sinking and apparently it was a known landslide by the provincial government, by the RDNO, by the ministry of transportation,” said Sharpe who was told by the RDNO to have a geo-tech look at the land which she said has found land on seven properties is falling, but hers is the only home in danger.
Sharpe said the RDNO contacted Emergency Management BC on her behalf and secured funding for a place for her to live until the end of August.
If Sharpe returns to her home, she is doing so at her own risk because it has been deemed unsafe to live.
“I will be homeless. I have no alternative but to come back and live in the house,” she said, adding she does not want to end up in a homeless shelter.
“The province is saying I am on my own. They are saying it is not a natural disaster because it has happened before. So if this isn't a natural disaster, I don't know what is. I don't know where else to go.”
Sharpe has sent a letter to Minister of Public Safety Mike Farnworth, and claims she was told to wait on a decision from the province on financial aid, which she has since been denied.
“The RDNO has tried to help. Everybody has been very good there,” said Sharpe adding it is the jurisdiction of the province.
Castanet has reached to the RDNO and the province about the matter.
