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Premier and housing minister announces adoption of rental housing task force recommendations

Construction on 36-storey office tower expected to begin in early 2019

Fifteen years ago, the same lot on one of Vancouver鈥檚 fanciest streets sold for a mere $815K

Blind-sided by an automatic jump in allowable rent increases, a group of MLAs rushed in Monday to try to undo the damage the increase did to their work on the issue.

Recommendation would still give landlords ability to ask for a boost in rents

Candidates in many municipalities claim they can solve housing crisis but plans may have 鈥渘o credibility鈥�

Saanich councillors are hoping their approval of five new houses in Cordova Bay will encourage other projects to embrace higher standards for energy-efficient houses.

A $250-million housing and social-programs development in Saanich, seen as creating a second downtown for the region, has been given the green light.

Victoria remains a city of renters, and No. 2 on the list of Canadian cities with the fewest homeowners, according to numbers from Statistics sa国际传媒.

Contradicting the provincial association鈥檚 recent predictions, national real estate body is less optimistic about sa国际传媒鈥檚 home sales recovery in 2019