Housing

Victoria's community safety plan on track as city continues to seek helping hand

Illegal short-term rental listings in BC must be removed from sites, starting today

Oak Bay townhouse proposal perturbs some in the neighbourhood

Alliance to End Homelessness unveils strategic plan to achieve ‘functional zero’ by 2030

Victoria bylaw amendments offer strategies for dealing with the homeless crisis

City says province left it out in the cold during winter weather emergency

Coldest Night of the Year walk: steps forward from an ever-present chilling challenge

Criticism of outreach supportive spaces pivots to city bylaws

Housing advocates and residents pull no punches with Victoria City Council

Tenants from Village on the Green rally for housing security

A limited number of emergency mats put street-entrenched people in the eye of a storm

Unhoused downtown: 'What do we do with our stuff?'

Victoria council to ask Saanich for extreme weather shelter support

Group moving to bring Syrian refugee family to Victoria

In Victoria, the debate on minimum housing unit size is a balancing act

The growing complexity of client needs prompts Cool Aid centre to temporarily shutter.

BC’s housing crunch means redefining affordable and middle income

Advocates and council face off on park sheltering deadline

Saanich to implement a hefty application fee for ALR exemptions

Vancouver’s Crab Park brings its encampment protest to Victoria

Tenants in an Esquimalt building worry they may be renovicted

Plan to end sheltering in all Victoria Parks set in motion

Renting in the Comox Valley: Low vacancy, high rents, no ease to the squeeze in sight

Victoria developer asks to break housing affordability deal made last summer

Indigenous organizations push to alleviate housing crisis, as full-time workers use local homeless shelter

Victoria needs more federal and provincial help on homelessness, council says

Saanich, Victoria, Oak Bay directed to build 10,176 housing units

Small island makes history in fight for affordable housing

As students return to Victoria, rental scams and unaffordable rates await them

Provincial funding and simpler bylaws in sight for secondary suites

Victorians are surrendering their animals to find a place to live

The Tow Away Zone: What it’s like to live in a van in Greater Victoria

Province to provide 5 days of emergency housing for Ridgeview Place residents

Anawim unveils new housing for Victoria women in need

UVic set to hike student housing rates by up to 10%

Allegations of anti-homeless harassment by Victoria bylaw; director says officers ensure safe passage on streets

North Park wants a community centre, just not on the 900-block of Pandora Avenue

Greater Victoria rental prices make biggest leap since 1991: CMHC report

UVic proposes 9-acre mixed-use university district

Premier announces $500-million fund to help non-profits buy rental buildings and co-ops

‘Tale as old as time’: Debunking pervasive myths about homelessness in Victoria

Here’s what the latest property assessments could mean for you

With snow on the horizon, Victoria is preparing overnight extreme weather shelters

How changing a planning oddity in Saanich could speed up housing approvals

Victoria median house price drops below million-dollar mark

Private sector must be part of solution to the housing crisis: CMHC

Experts talk big picture solutions to the Island’s ongoing affordability crisis

Greater Victoria food banks strain to meet rising need as cost of living soars

Victoria sees slight increase in new housing but missing middle still, well, missing

Lack of communication leaves unhoused Victorians out in the snow, despite open warming centre

Evicted to make way for a new development, low-income seniors face finding a new home

Non-profit housing operator encouraged by Eby’s housing platform

Nearly eight years later, Oak Bay’s secondary suite policy will go to a public hearing

Victoria’s Missing Middle Housing Initiative heads to second public hearing session

Priced out: Victorians wait for housing market to cool

More than Missing Middle needed to address housing affordability in Victoria

Opinion: Missing Middle or mansions? Why the Missing Middle is good for everyone

Victoria’s shipping container village to continue until end of March

Langford man raising alarm about poor heat planning in new developments

‘Squeezed out’: Salt Spring Islanders want speculation and vacancy tax

Victoria’s unhoused community on ‘high alert’ in wake of Langley shootings

Four new Island municipalities subject to speculation tax

To comfortably afford a Victoria one-bedroom, you now need to be making $75K

Second Danbrook One engineer accused of contributing to the building's flaws

‘It may never happen’: Vote reversal could turf Victoria’s ‘missing middle’ initiative

The Peninsula Paradox: Sidney is growing, but losing its young families

Greater Victoria builders say they can’t find workers to build new homes, because they can’t find homes for the workers

Province allocates 100 complex care beds to Victoria

The ‘Velvet Prison’: Victoria’s racialized communities call attention to housing inequities

An Oak Bay redevelopment may actually decrease density

What happened to Poole’s Land?

As cold weather persists, Victoria shelters are understaffed

An effort to preserve a tiny Vic West street reveals a city’s ongoing dilemma

Cracking the housing puzzle: What Victoria could learn from other cities

Danbrook One structural engineer 'not qualified' for such a building: investigative committee

How 'attainable' is Langford's Attainable Home Ownership plan?

Victoria rental housing market bracing for impact of post secondary students’ return

Salt Spring Island's duelling crises

‘Should not have happened’: new documents outline potentially catastrophic failures in Danbrook One design