Council is approving more housing units in the city than in previous years, but no ‘missing middle’ projects have come forward since a streamlined approval process came into effect in March
Eight months ago, a newly minted Victoria city council promised it would make housing a priority — and it appears to have done just that.
“We’re looking at it from the perspective of how can this produce the results that we want — and that’s more and more units of housing in areas across the city now with an eye to how it complements the existing structures in the neighbourhood,” she said. “So I think we are on track.” Alto said that’s due to council’s keen focus on addressing the housing shortage and being more willing to adapt, especially in the context of a climate crisis.
While she noted that it’s only been three months since it came into effect, Alto conceded that council “tried to roll a lot into one policy, and that it might have been too much in a single policy.” According to Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation figures, the city has seen just 247 starts through the first five months of this year, including no starts in the month of May. At the same time last year, there had been 562 new homes started in the city.
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