Homes for Living YYJ

02/11/2026

This month, Homes for Living has a team participating in the Coldest Night of the Year walk!

We’d love for you to join us by:
a) Joining our team and walking with us, and/or
b) Donating to support the cause.

All donations go directly to Our Place — and anyone can donate!

If you donate more than $20, you’ll receive a tax receipt.

You can learn more about the event at cnoy.org, or support our team directly here:

👉 [Homes for Living Team Fundraising Page] (https://secure.e2rm.com/registrant/TeamFundraisingPage.aspx?teamID=1043136&langPref=en-CA)

Thank you so much for your support!

01/14/2026

Saanich council is again discussing the Quadra McKenzie Plan, this time at Committee of the Whole. Pro housing voices matter, so please come out if you can.

🗓 Mon, Jan 19 at 6:30 pm
📍 Saanich Municipal Hall or speak via Teams

12/21/2025

Letters to the editor matter. 📰✍️

One way Homes for Living members take housing action is by writing pro housing letters to the editor and we are proud to share a couple from our members published today in Vic News.

If we want better housing outcomes, pro housing voices need to be just as visible, just as persistent, and just as loud as those opposed to housing.

Take a read, share them, and consider writing your own. Housing action does not always start at City Hall. Sometimes it starts on the opinion page.

12/21/2025

Letters to the editor matter. 📰✍️

One way Homes for Living members take housing action is by writing pro housing letters to the editor and we are proud to share a couple from our community below.

If we want better housing outcomes, pro housing voices need to be just as visible, just as persistent, and just as loud as those opposed to housing.

Take a read, share them, and consider writing your own. Housing action does not always start at City Hall. Sometimes it starts on the opinion page.

https://vicnews.com/2025/12/21/letter-victoria-needs-to-remove-barriers-to-family-friendly-homes/

https://vicnews.com/2025/12/21/letter-rules-an-obstacle-to-more-greater-victoria-housing/

Send your letter to [email protected]

12/10/2025

“Build housing, stop complaining.”

Councillor Dell is exactly right: BC is in a housing crisis. View Royal’s energy is better spent approving homes than launching legal challenges.

Every municipality should be pulling for more housing & less delays.

Build housing, stop complaining says Victoria Councillor Dell to View Royal Council regarding aspects of their intention to challenge BC housing legislation.

12/05/2025

📣 Oak Bay needs your pro-housing voice!

The new OCP Bylaw 4942 could finally plan for 20 years of much-needed homes.

🗓 Dec 9, 6pm
📍 Monterey Rec Centre
Or watch on Civic Web.

Let’s speak up for more homes and a more welcoming Oak Bay. 🏡

11/28/2025

Oak Bay has voted down yet another housing proposal, while continuing to fall far short of their provincial housing targets.

As the applicant put it, “Uplands is not a museum… it is an early 20th century idea conceived in a cooler, much less crowded world.”

It’s time for choices that reflect today’s reality, not 1920’s nostalgia.

11/27/2025

Thank you to MLA Rob Botterell for raising the Sidney Emergency Warming Shelter Action on Dec. 6th in the legislature.

It was also encouraging to hear Minister of Housing Christine Boyle affirm that the Province is ready to partner with municipalities where good solutions exist.

Sidney has a workable solution on the table, and we hope this event helps council reconsider their decisio

On December 6, the Mayor of Sidney has been invited to spend the night in the winter cold, alongside advocates from St. Andrew’s Anglican Church, Greater Vic...

11/23/2025

“Homes for All” is the theme of this year’s Gingerbread Showcase

Lots of great housing messages and examples of homes that should be legal everything

Support our friends at Habitat for Humanity https://www.habitatvictoria.com/gingerbread

11/19/2025

Different decade, same problem.

Back then, the “boogeyman” for local residents was townhouses; today, it’s towers.

I wonder how many of the people opposing the Quadra–McKenzie plan now are living in homes that were fiercely opposed in 1977.

11/19/2025

Different decade, same problem.

Back then, the “boogeyman” for local residents was townhouses; today, it’s towers.

I wonder how many of the people opposing the Quadra–McKenzie plan now are living in homes that were fiercely opposed in 1977.
Shout out to former Alderman Sandy Noel, who was appalled that so many people opposed the rezoning back then, just as we are appalled today. It is disappointing to see Mayor Murdock give in.

https://www.timescolonist.com/local-news/saanich-mayor-promises-to-cut-24-storey-towers-from-quadra-mckenzie-plan-11506372