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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...
#housing #yyj
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/39c067e...
Development charges rest on a shaky foundation
The philosophy of ‘growth pays for growth’ no longer makes sense in the midst of a housing crisis
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 29, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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...
#housing #yyj
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/39c067e...
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Who needs a village when you can have parking lots?
December 24, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Who needs a village when you can have parking lots?
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December 23, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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.
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.
December 21, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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.
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.
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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
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
holy @!#
It looks like the final adopted update to Burnaby's R1 zoning is really bad.
The allowable footprint area for a house and LWH is now capped at either 30% or 40% of the lot.
This change appears to kill the current design for one of our projects, and the housing library designs.
It looks like the final adopted update to Burnaby's R1 zoning is really bad.
The allowable footprint area for a house and LWH is now capped at either 30% or 40% of the lot.
This change appears to kill the current design for one of our projects, and the housing library designs.
December 18, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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
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...
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...
Build housing, stop complaining says Victoria Councillor Dell to View Royal - Island Social Trends
Build housing, stop complaining says Victoria Councillor Dell to View Royal Council regarding aspects of their intention to challenge BC housing legislation.
islandsocialtrends.ca
December 10, 2025 at 5:03 PM
“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...
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...
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...
Oak Bay - Meeting Information
oakbay.civicweb.net
December 5, 2025 at 1:49 AM
📣 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...
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...
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.
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.
November 30, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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.
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.
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.
November 28, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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.
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...
Sidney has a workable solution on the table, and we hope this event helps council reconsider their decision.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oSM...
Nov. 26, 2027 - MLA Botterell on emergency shelters in Sidney, and encampment sweeps across BC
YouTube video by BC Green Caucus
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November 27, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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...
Sidney has a workable solution on the table, and we hope this event helps council reconsider their decision.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oSM...
“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....
Lots of great housing messages and examples of homes that should be legal everything
Support our friends at Habitat for Humanity www.habitatvictoria....
November 23, 2025 at 9:35 PM
“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....
Lots of great housing messages and examples of homes that should be legal everything
Support our friends at Habitat for Humanity www.habitatvictoria....
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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.
November 18, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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.
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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
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
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.
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.
November 19, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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
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
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.
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.
November 19, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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.
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.
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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!
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!
November 18, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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!
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!
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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
“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
November 16, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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
“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/...
Let’s keep all of these stories in mind when making housing decisions.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Report reveals how domestic abusers weaponize B.C.'s housing crisis, calls for more legal aid | CBC News
A legal group's interviews with survivors of intimate partner violence show that many stay in abusive relationships because they can't find affordable housing. Following the interviews, a report from ...
www.cbc.ca
November 18, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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/...
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.
November 17, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Our letter to BC MLAs in support of @georgeandersonbc.bsky.social's private members' bill to streamline housing approvals.
On Dec 6, representatives from St. Andrew Anglican Church, Greater Victoria Acting Together and Homes for Living are camping out to call for real action and have asked Mayor and Council to do the same.
Join us + support the Backpack Project.
www.timescolonist.com/local-news/c...
Join us + support the Backpack Project.
www.timescolonist.com/local-news/c...
Church challenges Sidney mayor to spend night outdoors after shelter plans nixed
St. Andrew Anglican Church members are planning to camp out at Beacon Avenue and Highway 17 to raise funds for a group that hands out aid to the homeless, and they want Sidney’s mayor and council to j...
www.timescolonist.com
November 15, 2025 at 7:48 PM
On Dec 6, representatives from St. Andrew Anglican Church, Greater Victoria Acting Together and Homes for Living are camping out to call for real action and have asked Mayor and Council to do the same.
Join us + support the Backpack Project.
www.timescolonist.com/local-news/c...
Join us + support the Backpack Project.
www.timescolonist.com/local-news/c...
Powerful words from Saanich resident Amber Wright:
“To those who believe in a more welcoming, inclusive future: it’s time to show up.”
www.timescolonist.com/opinion/comm...
“To those who believe in a more welcoming, inclusive future: it’s time to show up.”
www.timescolonist.com/opinion/comm...
Comment: Save Our Saanich encourages mob behaviour that silences voices
Change is coming. Will we face it with courage and compassion — or let the loudest voices decide our future for us?
www.timescolonist.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Powerful words from Saanich resident Amber Wright:
“To those who believe in a more welcoming, inclusive future: it’s time to show up.”
www.timescolonist.com/opinion/comm...
“To those who believe in a more welcoming, inclusive future: it’s time to show up.”
www.timescolonist.com/opinion/comm...
November 13, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Municipal election year is coming up. Stay tuned for a lot of things coming from HFL.
Did you know Homes for Living has a newsletter? 🏡✨
✔️ Check out our November issue here: https://bit.ly/47VZUBC
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✔️ Check out our November issue here: https://bit.ly/47VZUBC
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✔️ Explore past editions on our website: homesforliving.ca
November 11, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Municipal election year is coming up. Stay tuned for a lot of things coming from HFL.
Did you know Homes for Living has a newsletter? 🏡✨
✔️ Check out our November issue here: https://bit.ly/47VZUBC
✔️ Sign up to get future issues: https://bit.ly/4qUd2zN
✔️ Explore past editions on our website: homesforliving.ca
✔️ Check out our November issue here: https://bit.ly/47VZUBC
✔️ Sign up to get future issues: https://bit.ly/4qUd2zN
✔️ Explore past editions on our website: homesforliving.ca
November 11, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Did you know Homes for Living has a newsletter? 🏡✨
✔️ Check out our November issue here: https://bit.ly/47VZUBC
✔️ Sign up to get future issues: https://bit.ly/4qUd2zN
✔️ Explore past editions on our website: homesforliving.ca
✔️ Check out our November issue here: https://bit.ly/47VZUBC
✔️ Sign up to get future issues: https://bit.ly/4qUd2zN
✔️ Explore past editions on our website: homesforliving.ca
Why! So disappointed in Colwood for denying 66 homes.
Colwood Corners is designated for high-density development according to the 2018 Official Community Plan.
What is the point of a community plan if everyone ignores it?
#yyjpoli #yyjpolitics #colwood #hfl #homesforliving #housingcrisis
Colwood Corners is designated for high-density development according to the 2018 Official Community Plan.
What is the point of a community plan if everyone ignores it?
#yyjpoli #yyjpolitics #colwood #hfl #homesforliving #housingcrisis
October 29, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Why! So disappointed in Colwood for denying 66 homes.
Colwood Corners is designated for high-density development according to the 2018 Official Community Plan.
What is the point of a community plan if everyone ignores it?
#yyjpoli #yyjpolitics #colwood #hfl #homesforliving #housingcrisis
Colwood Corners is designated for high-density development according to the 2018 Official Community Plan.
What is the point of a community plan if everyone ignores it?
#yyjpoli #yyjpolitics #colwood #hfl #homesforliving #housingcrisis