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Infill housing an untapped solution for B.C.’s supply shortage: report

Frances Bula, The Globe & Mail, Apr. 03, 2017

One of the solutions that many local politicians talk about when it comes to increasing the supply of housing without building towers everywhere is infill – unobtrusive additions through laneway houses, suites in existing homes, granny flats over garages, and duplexes and triplexes.

But a new analysis of infill housing in the region shows that many Lower Mainland cities make it difficult for owners and builders to create those new kinds of housing in single-family zones,

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Victoria’s affordable homes prompting early moves out of Lower Mainland

Kerry Gold, The Globe and Mail, Jan. 29, 2016

Rob Adamson typifies many average-income-earning homeowners who have cashed out of the Lower Mainland at an early age.

They are part of the drive behind a spike in sales for Victoria-area housing. The Greater Victoria market has seen a an overall increase of 21.7 per cent in detached-house sales in December, 2015, compared to December, 2014, according to the Victoria Real Estate Board.

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