Note for Saanich this only includes urban land. Land outside the UCB is not included in the denominator
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Note for Saanich this only includes urban land. Land outside the UCB is not included in the denominator
How important are local government housing policies?
They’re crucial.
Saanich and Oak Bay exist in the same economy as Victoria and Esquimalt. There’s no shortage of housing need.
The only reason they built so much less housing is because local policies prevented it
Coming up on Saturday! Join us!
For decades, Victoria didn't build enough rental housing to meet demand.
However in recent years they really stepped up, and the thousands of new homes are allowing people to live in the city rather than being forced out into the suburbs.
Let's keep it up!
BC just froze its Community Housing Fund, leaving thousands of future affordable homes that were relying on the fund in limbo
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
#bc #bcpoli #housing #affordability #urbanism
HFL has a team participating in the Coldest Night of the Year walk in support of Our Place.
We’d love for you to join us by:
a) Joining our team and walking with us, and/or
b) Donating to support the cause.
👉 [Homes for Living Team Fundraising Page] (secure.e2rm.com/registrant/T...)
Should be an uncontroversial win for affordability 🙏
saanichnews.com/2026/02/01/s...
Council is again discussing the Quadra McKenzie Plan, this time at Committee of the Whole. Pro housing voices matter, so please come out if you can.
🗓 Mon, Jan 19 at 6:30 pm
📍 Saanich Municipal Hall or speak via Teams
saanichca.primegov.com/Portal/Meeti...
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A @theglobeandmail.com editorial on the shaky basis of development charges. Usually we put special taxes on things we want less of, like cigarettes, and cut taxes on essentials, like groceries. There's a housing shortage and people need homes.
#housing #yyj
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/39c067e...
Who needs a village when you can have parking lots?
Chart showing homes per capita completions declining over 7 decades
Sooo many homes have been built in recent decades why are they expensive?
#housing #yyj
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One way our members take housing action is by writing pro housing letters to the editor, like these published in Vic News today.
If we want better housing outcomes, pro housing voices need to be just as visible, persistent, and loud as those opposed.
Read, share & consider writing your own.
For those not following what is happening here:
1. Cities banned family friendly infill housing for decades
2. The province stepped in and forced them to stop blocking them
3. Some family friendly homes got built
4. Cities immediately panicked and moved to block them again
Incredible
“Build housing, stop complaining.”
Councillor Dell is exactly right: BC is in a housing crisis. View Royal’s energy is better spent approving homes than launching legal challenges.
Every municipality should be pulling for more housing & less delays.
islandsocialtrends.ca/build-housin...
📣 Oak Bay needs your pro-housing voice!
The new OCP Bylaw 4942 could finally plan for 20 years of much-needed homes.
🗓 Dec 9, 6pm
📍 Monterey Rec Centre
Or watch on Civic Web.
Let’s speak up for more homes and a more welcoming Oak Bay. 🏡
oakbay.civicweb.net/Portal/Meeti...
@georgeandersonbc.bsky.social
Great analogy of why Bill M216 matters here from @ryanjabs.bsky.social.
The Legislative Assembly is taking public input until Jan 6: consultation-portal.leg.bc.ca/consultations
Let’s trust our highly educated, fully regulated professionals and get home costs down.
Oak Bay has voted down yet another housing proposal 😞
As the applicant put it, “Uplands is not a museum… it is an early 20th century idea conceived in a cooler, much less crowded world.”
It’s time for choices that reflect today’s reality, not 1920’s nostalgia.
Thank you @robbotterell for raising the Sidney Emergency Warming Shelter Action in the legislature on December 6.
Sidney has a workable solution on the table, and we hope this event helps council reconsider their decision.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oSM...
A 2025 Globe and Mail survey conducted by Nanos found 52% of Canadians thought reducing prices was necessary.
“Homes for All” is the theme of this year’s Gingerbread Showcase
Lots of great housing messages and examples of homes that should be legal everything
Support our friends at Habitat for Humanity www.habitatvictoria....
Hey all you community folks watching the Oak Bay OCP process- (I see you!) just a heads up that the public hearing will be pushed back a week- likely to the 9/10 of December. Date to be finalized next Monday.
One of my favourite things is looking for decades-old articles about housing in the newspaper.
Most of them could be published word for word today and no one would even notice.
But every year the problems from the housing shortage compound
Shout out to former Alderman Sandy Noel, who was appalled that so many people opposed the rezoning back then, just as we are appalled today. It is disappointing to see Mayor Murdock give in.
Different decade, same problem.
Back then, the “boogeyman” for local residents was townhouses; today, it’s towers.
I wonder how many of the people opposing the Quadra–McKenzie plan now are living in homes that were fiercely opposed in 1977.
Saanich Council has approved 125 housing units at McKenzie and Rainbow.
Close to transit, shops, parks,schools, and active transportation connections.
A cantilevered sidewalk will make sure that we deliver a sidewalk AND protect 8 significant Garry Oaks while delivering the housing people need!
Grateful to receive support for Bill M216 from Homes for Living YYJ. A community housing advocacy group.
“To meet affordability goals, we must ensure that it is faster and easier to build dense infill housing rather than suburban sprawl.”
#bcpoli #Nanaimo #Lantzville #Victoriabc
Not something most people would feel brave enough to speak about at a public hearing.
Let’s keep all of these stories in mind when making housing decisions.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Our letter to BC MLAs in support of @georgeandersonbc.bsky.social's private members' bill to streamline housing approvals.