EA Housing Needs Reports

EA Housing Needs Reports 2024

Introduction

The Interim Housing Needs Report updates the CVRD’s last report completed in 2021 to help the CVRD understand what has changed, how to respond to and implement recent Provincial housing legislation, and what types of housing units are most needed in our region's communities now and in the future.

OCP for the Electoral Areas (Bylaw 4373) includes the Housing Needs Report 2024 information.

Next Steps

The first “regular” Housing Needs Reports must be completed by December 31, 2028, and every five years thereafter. These changes will help local governments and the B.C. government better understand and respond to housing needs in communities throughout B.C. All Housing Needs Reports are required to contain the following, based on an analysis of the information collected:

• The number of housing units needed over the next 5- and 20-year period as calculated using the HNR Method, a standardized methodology.
• Statements about seven key areas of local need, including affordable housing, rental housing, special needs housing, seniors housing, family housing, housing in proximity to transit, and shelters and housing for people at risk of homelessness.
• The number and percentage of households in core housing need and extreme core housing need.
• A description of the actions taken by the local government to address housing need since the last Housing Needs Report; and
• The change, if any, in the number of housing units needed since the Last Housing Needs Report.

Regional districts must include this required content for each electoral area.

Click here for the 2024 Housing Needs Report