{
  "id": "shelter-housing-share",
  "parent": "people-experiencing-homelessness",
  "category": "Homelessness and drugs",
  "title": "Victoria's share of the region's shelter and homeless housing, compared with its share of population",
  "geography": "City of Victoria compared with the Capital Regional District",
  "scope": "city",
  "levels": [
    "Provincial (BC Housing funding)",
    "Municipal and regional (land use and siting)"
  ],
  "plain_question": "Of the shelter beds and housing for people experiencing homelessness that BC Housing administers in the Capital Region, what share is in the City of Victoria, compared with the City's share of the region's people?",
  "value": 86.4,
  "display_value": "86%",
  "unit": "of the region's units (City has 22% of residents)",
  "period": "March 31, 2025",
  "period_start": "2025-03-31",
  "period_end": "2025-03-31",
  "comparison": {
    "previous_period": "March 31, 2024",
    "previous_value": 86.3,
    "change_percent": 0.1,
    "change_unit": "percentage points"
  },
  "population_share": {
    "period": "2025",
    "value": 22.4
  },
  "since_text": "2,039 of 2,359 units in the region. The City has 22.4% of the region's residents. A year earlier (March 31, 2024): 1,902 of 2,203 (86.3%)",
  "trend": "context",
  "trend_basis": "At March 31, 2025, 2,039 of the 2,359 units in BC Housing's “Emergency Shelter and Housing for the Homeless” group in the Capital Region were in the City of Victoria (86.4%). The City had 103,888 of the region's 464,082 residents in 2025 (22.4%), so its share of these units is 3.9 times its share of population.",
  "direction_good": "down",
  "right_direction": "Shown for context, without a “better” or “worse” label. Services are often placed where people already seek help, and this page does not judge where they should be.",
  "caveats": [
    "Counts units administered by BC Housing in its “Emergency Shelter and Housing for the Homeless” group (supportive housing, homeless rent supplements and shelters) on March 31. Shelters and housing funded by others are not included.",
    "Rent supplements are counted where the program is administered, which may not be where the person lives.",
    "BC Housing suppresses some small counts in its tables (shown as XX); the regional total is BC Housing's own and includes them.",
    "The BC Data Catalogue lists this dataset as “Access Only”, which is not an open licence. It is shown here as public data with attribution.",
    "The earlier figure (March 31, 2024) is from the previous edition of the same file. The catalogue replaced that edition in the same dataset, so it is read from the Internet Archive’s copy of the file’s original address, checked against the archive’s fingerprint."
  ],
  "charts": [
    {
      "title": "Share of the Capital Region (%)",
      "fmt": "dec1",
      "unit": "%",
      "lines": [
        {
          "name": "Shelter and homeless housing units",
          "area": "city",
          "series": [
            {
              "period": "2024",
              "value": 86.3
            },
            {
              "period": "2025",
              "value": 86.4
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "name": "Residents",
          "area": "city",
          "series": [
            {
              "period": "2024",
              "value": 22.4
            },
            {
              "period": "2025",
              "value": 22.4
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "calc": {
    "formula": "Share of units = City units ÷ all Capital Region units. Share of population = City population ÷ Capital Region population (BC Stats, July 1).",
    "steps": [
      "Units: 2,039 ÷ 2,359 = 86.4%.",
      "Population 2025: 103,888 ÷ 464,082 = 22.4%.",
      "Ratio: 86.4 ÷ 22.4 = 3.9.",
      "March 31, 2024: 1,902 ÷ 2,203 = 86.3%; population 2024: 22.4%."
    ],
    "inputs": [
      {
        "name": "Non-market Housing (2025): units under BC Housing administration by municipality and service group, Capital Regional District",
        "agency": "BC Housing (published by the B.C. Ministry of Housing and Municipal Affairs)",
        "url": "https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/e6b53f5e-bbc9-4343-adf4-1d9e973422da/resource/eb2de011-0b7b-4454-b40d-d48afb34bedf/download/mah-housing-continuum-march-31-2025-final.xlsx",
        "dataset_url": "https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/non-market-housing-2025-",
        "period": "March 31, 2025",
        "licence": {
          "name": "Public data, not under an open licence. Used with attribution.",
          "url": "https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/home/copyright",
          "open": false,
          "note": "Listed in the BC Data Catalogue as “Access Only”."
        },
        "data_published": "2026-11-02"
      },
      {
        "name": "Non-market Housing (2024 edition, March 31, 2024): same file, previous edition (Internet Archive copy of the catalogue address)",
        "agency": "BC Housing (published by the B.C. Ministry of Housing and Municipal Affairs)",
        "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20250523210722id_/https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/e6b53f5e-bbc9-4343-adf4-1d9e973422da/resource/4d07c941-59e4-4e0f-acc5-d71e2b97b147/download/mah-housing-continuum-march-31-2024-final.xlsx",
        "dataset_url": "https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/non-market-housing-2025-",
        "period": "March 31, 2024",
        "licence": {
          "name": "Public data, not under an open licence. Used with attribution.",
          "url": "https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/home/copyright",
          "open": false,
          "note": "Listed in the BC Data Catalogue as “Access Only”."
        },
        "data_published": null
      },
      {
        "name": "Population estimates, July 1 (Municipalities (Census Subdivisions))",
        "agency": "BC Stats",
        "url": "https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/86839277-986a-4a29-9f70-fa9b1166f6cb/resource/0e15d04d-127c-457a-b999-20800c929927/download/municipality-population.csv",
        "dataset_url": "https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/bc-sub-provincial-population-estimates-and-projections",
        "licence": {
          "name": "Open Government Licence - British Columbia",
          "url": "https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content?id=A519A56BC2BF44E4A008B33FCF527F61"
        },
        "data_published": "2026-05-29",
        "period": "2024 and 2025"
      },
      {
        "name": "Population estimates, July 1 (Regional Districts (Census Divisions))",
        "agency": "BC Stats",
        "url": "https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/86839277-986a-4a29-9f70-fa9b1166f6cb/resource/36610a52-6f90-4ed6-946d-587641a490df/download/regional-district-population.csv",
        "dataset_url": "https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/bc-sub-provincial-population-estimates-and-projections",
        "licence": {
          "name": "Open Government Licence - British Columbia",
          "url": "https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content?id=A519A56BC2BF44E4A008B33FCF527F61"
        },
        "data_published": "2026-05-29",
        "period": "2024 and 2025"
      }
    ]
  },
  "refresh_frequency": "Annually (as of March 31)",
  "verified_text": [
    "Capital sheet, column 'Emergency Shelter and Housing for the Homeless Total': Victoria 2,039; Capital (Regional District total row) 2,359 (March 31, 2025)",
    "Previous edition, same sheet and column: Victoria 1,902; Capital 2,203 (March 31, 2024)"
  ],
  "source": {
    "name": "Calculated here from BC Housing (published by the B.C. Ministry of Housing and Municipal Affairs) and BC Stats data",
    "url": "https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/e6b53f5e-bbc9-4343-adf4-1d9e973422da/resource/eb2de011-0b7b-4454-b40d-d48afb34bedf/download/mah-housing-continuum-march-31-2025-final.xlsx",
    "dataset_url": "https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/non-market-housing-2025-",
    "locator": "Non-market housing file (Excel), Capital sheet, “Emergency Shelter and Housing for the Homeless Total” column",
    "reads": "Victoria 2,039; Capital (regional total) 2,359; March 31, 2025"
  },
  "licence": {
    "name": "Public data, not under an open licence. Used with attribution.",
    "url": "https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/home/copyright",
    "open": false,
    "note": "Listed in the BC Data Catalogue as “Access Only”."
  },
  "derived": true,
  "retrieved_at": "2026-11-12T04:06:00Z",
  "data_published": "2026-11-02",
  "series": [
    {
      "period": "2024",
      "value": 86.3
    },
    {
      "period": "2025",
      "value": 86.4
    }
  ],
  "licence_type": "public",
  "source_tier": 1,
  "measure_kind": "context",
  "better_measure": null,
  "status_rule": {
    "rule": "One rule for every measure: a change smaller than 5% of the earlier value, or smaller than the agency's own margin of error, is “About the same”; no change is calculated across a marked break in a series; homelessness estimates, prices, staffing and comparison pages are shown for context without a label.",
    "reason": "Shown for context, without a better or worse label.",
    "threshold_percent": 5.0
  },
  "changes": {
    "year": null,
    "five_year": null
  },
  "direction": {
    "type": "context",
    "rule": "Outcome measures read Better, Worse or About the same; published government targets read Ahead of, On or Behind target; value-judgement measures read Rising, Falling or Steady in a neutral colour. A change smaller than the agency's own margin of error, or otherwise smaller than 5% of the earlier value, is About the same (or Steady). No change is calculated across a marked break in a series.",
    "key": "steady",
    "label": "Steady",
    "arrow": "▲",
    "rel": 0.11587485515644094,
    "delta": 0.10000000000000853,
    "vs": "2024",
    "cur": "2025",
    "why": "How many shelter and supportive units a city should host is a policy choice. The change is 0.1% of the earlier value, below the 5% threshold.",
    "change": "0.1 pt",
    "one_year": "+0.1 pt",
    "long_why": "The series starts in 2024, so there is no reading longer than one year yet."
  },
  "benchmark": {
    "rung": 4,
    "rung_name": "Context measure: no target expected",
    "as_of": "2026-11-12",
    "items": [
      {
        "kind": "context",
        "label": "Context measure: no target expected",
        "area": null,
        "source": null,
        "documents_checked": null,
        "text": "Context measure: no target expected. A share shown for context beside the City’s share of the region’s residents."
      }
    ],
    "drawn": [],
    "rule": "Highest rung found is shown; the site never sets a target. Methods, Targets."
  },
  "no_target_expected": "A share shown for context beside the City’s share of the region’s residents.",
  "benchmarks": [],
  "highest_rung": null,
  "decided_by": [
    {
      "body": "BC",
      "name": "Province of B.C.",
      "decides": "Runs housing programs through BC Housing (the British Columbia Housing Management Commission).",
      "laws": [
        {
          "key": "mlpha5",
          "label": "Ministry of Lands, Parks and Housing Act, s. 5",
          "url": "https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document/id/complete/statreg/96307_01#section5"
        },
        {
          "key": "mlpha10",
          "label": "Ministry of Lands, Parks and Housing Act, s. 10",
          "url": "https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document/id/complete/statreg/96307_01#section10"
        }
      ],
      "last": null,
      "next": null
    },
    {
      "body": "CAN",
      "name": "Government of Canada and Parliament",
      "decides": "Must keep a National Housing Strategy with national goals on housing and homelessness.",
      "laws": [
        {
          "key": "nhsa5",
          "label": "National Housing Strategy Act, s. 5",
          "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/N-11.2/FullText.html"
        }
      ],
      "last": null,
      "next": null
    },
    {
      "body": "MUN",
      "name": "Municipal councils of Greater Victoria (13)",
      "decides": "Each council decides land use in its own area and makes bylaws for parks and other public places.",
      "laws": [
        {
          "key": "lga479",
          "label": "Local Government Act, s. 479",
          "url": "https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document/id/complete/statreg/r15001_14#section479"
        },
        {
          "key": "cc8p",
          "label": "Community Charter, s. 8 (3)",
          "url": "https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document/id/complete/statreg/03026_02#section8"
        }
      ],
      "last": null,
      "next": null
    },
    {
      "body": "CRD",
      "name": "Capital Regional District Board",
      "decides": "Runs a regional housing trust fund that helps fund affordable housing.",
      "laws": [
        {
          "key": "crd3266",
          "label": "CRD Bylaw No. 3266, Regional Housing Trust Fund Service Establishment Bylaw",
          "url": "https://www.crd.ca/media/file/3266-consolidated-capital-regional-district-regional-housing-trust-fund-service"
        }
      ],
      "last": null,
      "next": null
    }
  ],
  "main_decision_maker": "Province of B.C.",
  "label_1y": {
    "key": "steady",
    "label": "Steady"
  },
  "label_long": null,
  "target_line": {
    "form": 7,
    "text": "No target expected",
    "target": null,
    "gap": null,
    "comparison": null,
    "applies_here": false,
    "note": "A share shown for context beside the City’s share of the region’s residents."
  }
}