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[aastra]

In 2018 we're talking about the urgent need for housing crisis working groups. In the 1960s we were talking about the urgent need for housing crisis working groups.

 

aastra's prediction: in 2065 we'll be talking about the urgent need for housing crisis working groups.

[Nparker]

...aastra's prediction: in 2065 we'll be talking about the urgent need for housing crisis working groups.

NParker's prediction: I'll be dead by 2065 and probably not talking about anything.

[aastra]

Come on. You'll be dead long before then.

[Nparker]

Come on. You'll be dead long before then.

If the tangerine dictator south of the border gets re-elected in 2020, the world won't be around in 2065.

[aastra]

aastra's prediction: the system will be exactly the same as it ever was, still pulling people's chains and pushing people's buttons.

[PPPdev]

Correction for the article: Development Cost Charges are not Community Amenity Contributions.

 

DCC's are levied for pre-defined infrastructure works outlined in a bylaw

 

CAC's do not exist anywhere in legislation and are an invention of municipalities to extract $ to offset the "negative" impacts of development

[Victoria Watcher]

purpose-built market rental in the city has been killed by the province with all their new rules.   isitt and loveday will kill any other private-sector residential building.  builders will simply wait for 4 years to see what's up.

[spanky123]

purpose-built market rental in the city has been killed by the province with all their new rules.   isitt and loveday will kill any other private-sector residential building.  builders will simply wait for 4 years to see what's up.

 

Construction is falling off anyways. CMHC is predicting lower population growth, higher interest rates and a slowing economy so anything Isitt and Loveday do will just make what is already underway worse.

[spanky123]

Housing discussion on now

 

https://pub-victoria...48-1360639779c5

[spanky123]

In essence the voting and discussion for each housing motion starts with a progressive making a passionate statement about the need for more affordable housing for families followed by Jeff Young making a reasoned statement about why the motion doesn't make sense or won't have the desired outcome. The vote then goes 8:1 in favour.of the motion.

 

They did agree to defer the most controversial motion of setting affordability prices (etc) two weeks to allow for additional comment from the CHMC and BC assessment on the definitions.

 

On a process note, motions that the Mayor made/planned to make were either defeated or deferred before a vote could take place.

Edited by spanky123, 08 November 2018 - 02:46 PM.

[Nparker]

...making a reasoned statement about why the motion doesn't make sense or won't have the desired outcome...

Reason and common sense are alien concepts to SJWs.

[DavidL]

Ad-hoc policy making at its finest.  

[Wayne]

DavidL, on 10 Nov 2018 - 12:12 PM, said:

Ad-hoc policy making at its finest.  

Sounds like our Municipal, Provincial and Federal Elected on this matter.

[Nparker]

The Province has announced funding (again?) for the following "affordable" housing units in Victoria:

5 projects / 588 homes

• $15.5 million to Capital Region Housing Corporation – 155 homes for individuals, families, seniors and people with disabilities
• $15.7 million to Cool Aid Society – 157 homes for families and seniors
• $19 million to Pacifica Housing – 130 homes for Indigenous people, seniors and women and children fleeing violence
• $8.8 million to Pacifica Housing – 88 homes for individuals, families and seniors
• $5.8 million to the Gorge View Society – 58 homes for families and seniors

 

Further details here: 
https://news.gov.bc....ng_Projects.pdf
https://www.bchousin...ty-housing-fund

 

[threePs]

When they announced all the money in Budget 2018 earlier this year, ^this is that money that has been awarded to specific projects after the RFP process.

[rjag]

The Province has announced funding (again?) for the following "affordable" housing units in Victoria:

5 projects / 588 homes

• $19 million to Pacifica Housing – 130 homes for Indigenous people, seniors and women and children fleeing violence
• $8.8 million to Pacifica Housing – 88 homes for individuals, families and seniors
 

 

Further details here: 
https://news.gov.bc....ng_Projects.pdf
https://www.bchousin...ty-housing-fund

 

Dean Fortin is going to get a pay raise

Edited by rjag, 13 November 2018 - 01:33 PM.

[Nparker]

Dean Fortin is going to get a pay raise

[Citified.ca]

A total of 914 local units of housing will receive support from the province as part of this initial funding commitment which will peak at $1.9 billion for 14,350-units of housing built over a period of ten years. The local funding commitments include projects in Esquimalt, Langford, Saanich and Victoria with a total contribution of $97.4 million (roughly $100,000 per unit). This release does overlap with funding for various initiatives already announced but it is not clear just to what extent the overlaps occur.

 

Province outlines funding for 900-units of community housing throughout Greater Victoria

https://victoria.cit...eater-victoria/

[LJ]

^Well then start building the wall, as soon as those units are available we will have another 900 homeless/crisis people at our door looking for their handout.

[RFS]

Good, so then the COV can let the province do their job, get back to running the city, and give up their plans of getting into the real estate development business