{
  "id": "housing-starts-city",
  "category": "Housing and homelessness",
  "title": "New homes started in the City of Victoria",
  "geography": "City of Victoria (BC Stats row “VICTORIA CY”)",
  "scope": "city",
  "levels": [
    "Builders and lenders",
    "City council (zoning and permits)"
  ],
  "plain_question": "How many new homes did builders start in the City this year?",
  "value": 5807,
  "display_value": "5,807",
  "unit": "homes started in the 5 years 2021 to 2025",
  "period": "Calendar years 2021 to 2025",
  "period_start": "2021-01-01",
  "period_end": "2025-12-31",
  "comparison": {
    "previous_period": "Calendar year 2024",
    "previous_value": 439,
    "change_percent": 235.5
  },
  "headline_compare": {
    "previous_period": "2016 to 2020",
    "previous_value": 3632,
    "change_percent": 59.9,
    "current_value": 5807,
    "basis": "five-year totals, 2016 to 2020 and 2021 to 2025"
  },
  "single_year": {
    "period": "2025",
    "value": 1473,
    "previous_period": "2024",
    "previous_value": 439
  },
  "trend": "improving",
  "trend_basis": "5,807 homes started in the City in 2021 to 2025 against 3,632 in 2016 to 2020 (sums of BC Stats’ yearly figures). The single year 2025: 1,473, against 439 in 2024. Metropolitan area, 2021 to 2025: 23,632.",
  "direction_good": "up",
  "right_direction": "More homes started means more housing on the way, as for the Greater Victoria figure.",
  "since_text": "In 2025 alone: 1,473 homes started (439 in 2024). 2021 to 2025: 25% of the 23,632 started in the Victoria metropolitan area.",
  "caveats": [
    "Housing starts count homes where construction began in the year (CMHC’s Starts and Completions Survey), compiled by municipality by BC Stats.",
    "Starts in the City move a lot from year to year, because one large apartment building can add hundreds of homes at once. So the headline adds up five years and compares them with the five years before.",
    "The by-municipality table is BC Stats’ own rows for the Victoria metropolitan area.",
    "BC Stats’ note in the file: Adapted from Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, BC Historical Housing Starts. This does not constitute an endorsement by Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation of this product or of the accuracy or quality of the information that it contains."
  ],
  "charts": [
    {
      "title": "Homes started a year, City of Victoria",
      "fmt": "int",
      "unit": "homes",
      "lines": [
        {
          "name": "City of Victoria",
          "area": "city",
          "series": [
            {
              "period": "1982",
              "value": 356
            },
            {
              "period": "1983",
              "value": 200
            },
            {
              "period": "1984",
              "value": 289
            },
            {
              "period": "1985",
              "value": 244
            },
            {
              "period": "1986",
              "value": 156
            },
            {
              "period": "1987",
              "value": 535
            },
            {
              "period": "1988",
              "value": 442
            },
            {
              "period": "1989",
              "value": 466
            },
            {
              "period": "1990",
              "value": 689
            },
            {
              "period": "1991",
              "value": 441
            },
            {
              "period": "1992",
              "value": 611
            },
            {
              "period": "1993",
              "value": 600
            },
            {
              "period": "1994",
              "value": 763
            },
            {
              "period": "1995",
              "value": 591
            },
            {
              "period": "1996",
              "value": 226
            },
            {
              "period": "1997",
              "value": 170
            },
            {
              "period": "1998",
              "value": 149
            },
            {
              "period": "1999",
              "value": 515
            },
            {
              "period": "2000",
              "value": 202
            },
            {
              "period": "2001",
              "value": 298
            },
            {
              "period": "2002",
              "value": 196
            },
            {
              "period": "2003",
              "value": 502
            },
            {
              "period": "2004",
              "value": 678
            },
            {
              "period": "2005",
              "value": 527
            },
            {
              "period": "2006",
              "value": 629
            },
            {
              "period": "2007",
              "value": 809
            },
            {
              "period": "2008",
              "value": 241
            },
            {
              "period": "2009",
              "value": 170
            },
            {
              "period": "2010",
              "value": 566
            },
            {
              "period": "2011",
              "value": 211
            },
            {
              "period": "2012",
              "value": 743
            },
            {
              "period": "2013",
              "value": 521
            },
            {
              "period": "2014",
              "value": 97
            },
            {
              "period": "2015",
              "value": 674
            },
            {
              "period": "2016",
              "value": 945
            },
            {
              "period": "2017",
              "value": 979
            },
            {
              "period": "2018",
              "value": 690
            },
            {
              "period": "2019",
              "value": 688
            },
            {
              "period": "2020",
              "value": 330
            },
            {
              "period": "2021",
              "value": 1204
            },
            {
              "period": "2022",
              "value": 1727
            },
            {
              "period": "2023",
              "value": 964
            },
            {
              "period": "2024",
              "value": 439
            },
            {
              "period": "2025",
              "value": 1473
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
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  "by_municipality": {
    "title": "Housing starts by municipality, Victoria metropolitan area, 2021 to 2025",
    "columns": [
      "Municipality",
      "2021",
      "2022",
      "2023",
      "2024",
      "2025",
      "2021 to 2025"
    ],
    "rows": [
      [
        "Juan De Fuca (Part 1) (electoral area)",
        21,
        46,
        3,
        16,
        18,
        104
      ],
      [
        "Central Saanich (district)",
        166,
        39,
        300,
        67,
        46,
        618
      ],
      [
        "Colwood (city)",
        302,
        242,
        303,
        535,
        634,
        2016
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      [
        "Esquimalt (district)",
        60,
        529,
        766,
        163,
        209,
        1727
      ],
      [
        "Highlands (district)",
        10,
        7,
        3,
        0,
        2,
        22
      ],
      [
        "Langford (city)",
        1741,
        1254,
        1406,
        1506,
        1386,
        7293
      ],
      [
        "Metchosin (district)",
        11,
        7,
        8,
        0,
        3,
        29
      ],
      [
        "North Saanich (district)",
        92,
        27,
        23,
        14,
        16,
        172
      ],
      [
        "Oak Bay (district)",
        27,
        27,
        32,
        22,
        67,
        175
      ],
      [
        "Saanich (district)",
        376,
        338,
        555,
        1023,
        736,
        3028
      ],
      [
        "Sidney (town)",
        91,
        71,
        55,
        25,
        30,
        272
      ],
      [
        "Sooke (district)",
        440,
        241,
        114,
        127,
        209,
        1131
      ],
      [
        "Victoria (city)",
        1204,
        1727,
        964,
        439,
        1473,
        5807
      ],
      [
        "View Royal (town)",
        80,
        188,
        438,
        244,
        3,
        953
      ],
      [
        "Other areas (as published)",
        188,
        44,
        22,
        4,
        27,
        285
      ],
      [
        "Victoria metropolitan area",
        4809,
        4787,
        4992,
        4185,
        4859,
        23632
      ]
    ],
    "note": "Row names as BC Stats publishes them (CY city, DM district, T town, RDA electoral area). A dash in the file means not available for that area and year.",
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        "1997": 1311,
        "1998": 964,
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        "2000": 872,
        "2001": 1264,
        "2002": 1344,
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        "2009": 1034,
        "2010": 2118,
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        "2012": 1700,
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        "2014": 1315,
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        "2016": 2933,
        "2017": 3862,
        "2018": 4273,
        "2019": 3499,
        "2020": 3209,
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