Saanich decades away from digging out of housing hole: report
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It is likely to take one or two generations before the District of Saanich can dig itself out of its housing deficit.
During discussion this past week of a progress report on Saanich’s housing strategy, district staff suggested it will be decades before the municipality can catch up, noting it has managed to build only 70 per cent of its housing target over the past six years.
And even that number is generous, as the report noted Saanich saw an average of 340 units completed per year over the past five years, which included a boom of 620 units completed in 2019.
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