Other measures proposed by NDP leadership hopeful include using public land to fast-track construction of affordable housing, allowing single-family homes to be replaced by up to three units on same footprint
NDP leadership candidate David Eby proposed an aggressive suite of measures to address the housing crisis Wednesday, including a $500-million rental-housing acquisition fund for non-profits to buy buildings rather than investors, and a tax on flipping homes.
• Using public land to fast-track construction of “affordable, middle-class housing,” with a special focus on Indigenous housing, both on and off reserve. “The opportunity here is for the provincial government to bring together all of the partners, whether it’s non-profit organizations, whether it’s homebuilders, cities, other levels of government, to use public land to build actually attainable housing for the middle class in our province,” Eby said.
The plan also proposes allowing homebuilders in major urban centers to replace a single-family home with up to three units on the same footprint, as long as they are consistent with existing setbacks and height requirements; making secondary suites legal in every region of the province; reforming municipal approvals processes in partnership with municipalities; simplifying provincial permitting for housing; and removing strata restrictions on rentals.
The UBCM said provincial investments in capital grants, safeguarding affordable rental housing, a flipping tax, regulating short-term rentals, and improving services for supportive housing are policy changes for which it has advocated. “If mayors and councillors across the province thought [triple-zoning single-family lots] was a good idea, it would already be in place in their communities,” said Milobar, “so I think there’s going to probably be considerable pushback around local autonomy.”
But Victoria Mayor Lisa Helps said the “big, bold and necessary moves” Eby laid out Wednesday to address housing affordability will bring “much-needed relief” to Victorians and others across the province.
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