Victoria indicatorsSubsidized homes (BC Housing)
15,222 units
No target found. Who could set one: The Capital Regional District Board or the Province of B.C.. Targets and comparisons
Up 6.7% since Previous report.
Source: Capital Regional District. We read it on Nov 12, 2026.
Over time
2025 Units, by year
- 15,222 units
P provincial election: Oct 19, 2024F federal election: Apr 28, 2025
Targets and comparisons
No target found
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.
Source: Regional Growth Strategy Indicators Report (2025 edition, report for 2024), Capital Regional District, 2025, page 23. Area: Capital Region growth management area. Updated: Yearly. Licence: Public document, not under an open licence. Quoted with attribution.
Show the numbers as a table
| Period | Value |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 15,222 |
| 2023 | 14,262 |
Who decides
Province of B.C. Runs housing programs through BC Housing (the British Columbia Housing Management Commission). Ministry of Lands, Parks and Housing Act, s. 5
Show the 3 other bodies and the laws
| Body | What it decides | Law or bylaw |
|---|---|---|
| Province of B.C. | Runs housing programs through BC Housing (the British Columbia Housing Management Commission). | Ministry of Lands, Parks and Housing Act, s. 5 Ministry of Lands, Parks and Housing Act, s. 10 |
| Capital Regional District Board | Runs a regional housing trust fund that helps fund affordable housing. | CRD Bylaw No. 3266, Regional Housing Trust Fund Service Establishment Bylaw |
| Government of Canada and Parliament | Finances and insures housing loans through Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation. | National Housing Act, s. 3 |
| Municipal councils of Greater Victoria (13) | Each council decides zoning and approves new housing in its own area. | Local Government Act, s. 479 |
Councils: last general local election October 17, 2026; next on October 19, 2030, the third Saturday of October set by the Local Government Act, s. 52. Province: last general election October 19, 2024; next set for October 21, 2028 unless called earlier (Constitution Act, s. 23). Canada: last general election April 28, 2025; next set for October 15, 2029 unless called earlier (Canada Elections Act, s. 56.1).
Each row says what a body decides and links to the law, order or bylaw that gives it that role. It does not say who caused a change: markets, households and other governments also move these numbers. Who decides what, for every measure · How we choose
What this number does not show
- 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.
One more limit
- 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.
Not measured yet in housing: renovictions and tenant displacement. See all 18 gaps
In plain words
Homes in the CRD’s Growth Management Planning Area with a financial relationship with BC Housing, from shelters and supportive housing to social housing and rent supplements, as printed in the CRD’s growth strategy report.
How we decide “Better”
The change is 6.7% of the earlier value, at or above the 5% threshold.
More units means more homes are available at below-market cost or with support. 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.
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. The rule.
All notes on this number
Why it matters. It shows whether the supply of homes for people who cannot pay market rent is growing.
- 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.
Which places
Area: CRD growth management area
The Capital Regional District’s Growth Management Planning Area: the 13 municipalities and the Juan de Fuca electoral area.
Included
- The 13 municipalities of the Capital Region
- The Juan de Fuca electoral area
Not included
- Salt Spring Island and the Southern Gulf Islands, which have their own planning
Official definition
How the agency describes it: CRD Growth Management Planning Area (the region’s municipalities and the Juan de Fuca electoral area).
How we got it
This number is published by the agency as shown; it is not calculated here. The script reads it from the agency’s own document and refuses to show it unless the expected text is found.
Licence and credits
This figure is public but not under an open licence: the agency publishes it for anyone to read, and it is shown here with credit and a link to the agency’s terms. About licences.
- Licence
- Public data, not under an open licence. Used with attribution. Agency’s terms of use
- Updated by agency
- Yearly (CRD growth strategy indicators report); latest release Feb 18, 2026
- Retrieved
- Nov 12, 2026, 10:30 PM B.C. time
Source: Capital Regional District, Regional Growth Strategy Indicators Report (2025 edition). Public document, used with attribution; not endorsed by the publisher.
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