The CRD released the Capital Regional District Housing Needs Assessment in 2020. As a result of the 2023 amendments to the Local Government Act under Bill 44, changes were made to the timing and requirements for Housing Needs Reports. The Township has prepared an Interim Housing Needs Assessment, as an appendix to the 2020 document, which fulfills the Township's statutory requirement. It is important to recognize that the Interim Housing Needs Report's 5-and 20 year housing need totals were calculated by the Provincial government.
The full 2020 Capital Regional District Housing Needs Assessment document with the Interim Housing Needs Assessment attached as an appendix is here.
Please note that the report includes analysis based on data that may no longer reflect the realities of the current housing situation in Esquimalt. Readers are cautioned to critically examine the sources and date of the data in the report before making decisions related to the present housing situation in Esquimalt.