Housing crisis decades in the making โ€“ Saanich News

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LETTER: Housing crisis decades in the making




In response to โ€œDensification addresses concerns of modern world.โ€ Sidney shares land with North Saanich, so factor this in when saying densification in Sidney is confined to downtown. Sidney had to restrict reno-evictions so the not-so-wealthy baby-boomers could remain in their apartment/condo rentals, so itโ€™s misleading saying the older generation are โ€œrich.โ€

Not all retirees can afford $1,000 per square-foot of living space in new builds, strata fees in the hundreds per month and Sidneyโ€™s taxes outpacing every other municipality on the Peninsula. Affordability for service workers is a Canadian problem and will take all three levels of government to tackle this ignored problem.

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