Missing Middle Housing forms. The design guidelines ensure that missing middle homes will fit with and complement neighbourhoood character. This…
Read More Victoria’s Big Housing Moves – Building the Future We Need
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Missing Middle Housing forms. The design guidelines ensure that missing middle homes will fit with and complement neighbourhoood character. This…
Read More Victoria’s Big Housing Moves – Building the Future We Need
Renderings of Cool Aid's Crosstown Building at Douglas and Burnside. Affordable housing buildings like this one can now get under…
Read More More Affordable Housing, More Quickly – Victoria Makes First of Three Big Housing Moves
A single family subdivision being built in the westshore, where a forest once stood. This is the final part in…
Read More Part 4. Missing Middle Housing and More Inclusive, Climate-Friendly Cities for the Future
This post will be as much photo essay as written word. I want to show that Missing Middle Housing already…
Samples of Missing Middle Housing proposed for Victoria. These are low-rise, multi-family dwellings that fit into existing neighbourhoods and are…
The majority of the light yellow areas – which comprise a large portion of the city's limited land base –…
Read More Part 1. The Racist and Exclusionary History of Single Family Zoning
New skate parks and bike park too at Topaz. More below! Thursday was our last Council meeting before a summer…
Read More Council Summer Wrap Up – Housing, Bike Lanes, Sports Fields, and More
These 22 town homes by Aryze, in Fairfield are currently under construction. They took close to three years to get…
These buildings are samples of the types of homes under construction that will provide transitional and permanent housing for those…
Read More ‘Functional Zero’ – Ending Chronic Homelessness in Victoria
Cool's Aid Crosstown Project at 3020 Douglas Street and 584 Burnside Road. You can head to their website to learn…
Read More City Staff Propose Bold Approach to Expediting Affordable Housing