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  "id": "subsidized-homes",
  "category": "Housing",
  "title": "Subsidized homes in the Capital Region (BC Housing)",
  "geography": "CRD Growth Management Planning Area (the region’s municipalities and the Juan de Fuca electoral area)",
  "scope": "region",
  "levels": [
    "Provincial (BC Housing)",
    "Federal (CMHC)",
    "Regional (housing trust fund)"
  ],
  "plain_question": "How many homes in the region have a financial relationship with BC Housing, from shelters to rent supplements?",
  "value": 15222,
  "display_value": "15,222",
  "unit": "units, March 31, 2025",
  "period": "March 31, 2025",
  "period_start": "2025-03-31",
  "period_end": "2025-03-31",
  "comparison": {
    "previous_period": "Previous report (2023-2024)",
    "previous_value": 14262,
    "change_percent": 6.7
  },
  "trend": "improving",
  "direction_good": "up",
  "right_direction": "More units means more homes are available at below-market cost or with support.",
  "trend_basis": "15,222 units as of March 31, 2025 (2025 edition report), an increase of 960 on the 14,262 in the previous report (2024 edition). The previous report added 490 units.",
  "since_text": "Up 960 units in the latest reporting period; 490 the period before.",
  "caveats": [
    "Units with a financial relationship with BC Housing: emergency shelters, housing for people who were homeless, transitional and supported housing, assisted living, independent social housing, and rent assistance in the private market. Rent supplements are counted as units.",
    "Counted by BC Housing (Unit Count Report) and printed in the CRD’s yearly growth strategy indicators report, for the CRD’s Growth Management Planning Area, not the City alone.",
    "Dates differ between the two reports: the previous report dates its 14,262 units March 31, 2023, while the latest report calls the 490 units added then the figure “for 2023-2024”. The latest report’s increase (960) matches the difference between the two totals.",
    "It is a count of homes, not of how many people need one; the BC Housing waitlist is not published by municipality."
  ],
  "charts": [],
  "series": [
    {
      "period": "2023",
      "value": 14262
    },
    {
      "period": "2025",
      "value": 15222
    }
  ],
  "refresh_frequency": "Yearly (CRD growth strategy indicators report)",
  "source": {
    "name": "Capital Regional District, Regional Growth Strategy Indicators Report (2025 edition)",
    "url": "https://www.crd.ca/programs-services/regional-planning/regional-growth-strategy",
    "dataset_url": "https://www.crd.ca/media/file/2025-rgs-indicators-reportpdf",
    "download_url": "https://www.crd.ca/media/file/2025-rgs-indicators-reportpdf",
    "locator": "Capital Regional District, Regional Growth Strategy Indicators Report (2025 edition), indicator 3.2d “Increase supply of affordable housing”, “How are we doing?”",
    "reads": "As of March 31, 2025 there were 15,222 subsidized housing units in the GMPA, representing an increase of 960 units in this reporting period.",
    "earlier": {
      "period": "March 31, 2023",
      "display": "14,262",
      "name": "Capital Regional District, Regional Growth Strategy Indicators Report (2024 edition)",
      "url": "https://www.crd.ca/media/file/2024-rgs-indicators-reportpdf",
      "page_url": "https://www.crd.ca/media/file/2024-rgs-indicators-reportpdf#page=23",
      "page": 23,
      "reads": "As of March 31, 2023 there were 14,262 subsidized housing units in the GMPA, representing an increase of 490 units in this reporting period.",
      "published": "2025-03-07",
      "note": null
    },
    "page_url": "https://www.crd.ca/media/file/2025-rgs-indicators-reportpdf#page=23",
    "page": 23
  },
  "licence": {
    "name": "Public data, not under an open licence. Used with attribution.",
    "url": "https://www.crd.ca/disclaimer",
    "open": false
  },
  "verified_text": [
    "As of March 31, 2025 there were 15,222 subsidized housing units in the GMPA, representing an increase of 960 units in this reporting period.",
    "This is up from 490 new units previously reported for 2023-2024",
    "As of March 31, 2023 there were 14,262 subsidized housing units in the GMPA, representing an increase of 490 units in this reporting period."
  ],
  "data_published": "2026-02-18",
  "retrieved_at": "2026-11-13T05:30:10Z",
  "attribution": "Source: Capital Regional District, Regional Growth Strategy Indicators Report (2025 edition). Public document, used with attribution; not endorsed by the publisher.",
  "licence_type": "public",
  "source_tier": 1,
  "measure_kind": "service result",
  "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": "The change is 6.7% of the earlier value, at or above the 5% threshold.",
    "threshold_percent": 5.0
  },
  "changes": {
    "year": {
      "period": "Previous report (2023-2024)",
      "value": 14262,
      "text": "vs Previous report (2023-2024): +6.7%"
    },
    "five_year": null
  },
  "direction": {
    "type": "outcome",
    "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": "better",
    "label": "Better",
    "arrow": "▲",
    "rel": 6.7,
    "delta": null,
    "vs": "Previous report (2023-2024)",
    "cur": "March 31, 2025",
    "why": "The change is 6.7% of the earlier value, at or above the 5% threshold.",
    "change": "6.7%",
    "one_year": "+6.7%",
    "long_why": "The only earlier figure (2023) is the one already compared, so there is no longer reading yet."
  },
  "benchmark": {
    "rung": 5,
    "rung_name": "No target found",
    "as_of": "2026-11-12",
    "items": [
      {
        "kind": "none",
        "label": "No target found",
        "text": "No number found: the CRD’s growth strategy indicators report (2025 edition) gives the desired trend as an increase in subsidized units and sets no figure, as of November 12, 2026. Who could set one: the Capital Regional District Board or the Province of B.C.",
        "area": "Capital Region growth management area",
        "source": {
          "title": "Regional Growth Strategy Indicators Report (2025 edition, report for 2024)",
          "publisher": "Capital Regional District",
          "date": "2025",
          "url": "https://www.crd.ca/media/file/2025-rgs-indicators-reportpdf",
          "terms": "https://www.crd.ca/disclaimer",
          "refresh": "Yearly",
          "licence": "Public document, not under an open licence. Quoted with attribution.",
          "checked": "2026-11-12",
          "key": "crd_rgs25",
          "page": 23
        },
        "documents_checked": null
      }
    ],
    "drawn": [],
    "rule": "Highest rung found is shown; the site never sets a target. Methods, Targets."
  },
  "benchmarks": [],
  "highest_rung": 5,
  "no_target_found": {
    "documents_checked": [
      "crd_rgs25"
    ],
    "checked_on": "2026-11-12",
    "who_could_set": [
      "The Capital Regional District Board or the Province of B.C."
    ]
  },
  "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": "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
    },
    {
      "body": "CAN",
      "name": "Government of Canada and Parliament",
      "decides": "Finances and insures housing loans through Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.",
      "laws": [
        {
          "key": "nha3",
          "label": "National Housing Act, s. 3",
          "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/N-11/FullText.html"
        }
      ],
      "last": null,
      "next": null
    },
    {
      "body": "MUN",
      "name": "Municipal councils of Greater Victoria (13)",
      "decides": "Each council decides zoning and approves new housing in its own area.",
      "laws": [
        {
          "key": "lga479",
          "label": "Local Government Act, s. 479",
          "url": "https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document/id/complete/statreg/r15001_14#section479"
        }
      ],
      "last": null,
      "next": null
    }
  ],
  "main_decision_maker": "Province of B.C.",
  "label_1y": {
    "key": "better",
    "label": "Better"
  },
  "label_long": null,
  "target_line": {
    "form": 4,
    "text": "No target found",
    "target": null,
    "gap": null,
    "comparison": null,
    "applies_here": false,
    "note": null
  }
}