On September 9, 2024, Council adopted Delta's interim Housing Needs Report, thereby allowing Delta to meet the Provincial requirement of an updated Housing Needs Report by January 1, 2025. The update includes a description of Delta's housing need, as well as an updated section on the importance of housing near transit (Section 3.7). You can find this document in the Key Documents section on the right, or by clicking here.


Background

In 2019, the City began developing a Housing Action Plan to help address Delta’s current and future housing needs.

For Phase 1 of this project, we conducted a Housing Needs Assessment with residents and stakeholders to better understand Delta’s current housing situation and decide what are Delta’s priority needs for housing. The key areas we identified are:






Phase 2 saw the development of draft strategies to address the needs identified in Phase 1. Through the input of Council, stakeholders and the broader community, those strategies were further refined and incorporated into a draft Housing Action Plan.


In Phase 3, the draft Housing Action Plan was developed with input from the community and key stakeholders. Following that refinement work, Delta City Council approved the City's new Housing Action Plan on November 8, 2021. You can find a copy of the Council report and the Housing Action Plan here. The Plan reflects the City's commitment to taking action on housing over the next five years, with eight strategies to address Delta's housing needs. The strategies are:

  1. Promote priority housing types through a comprehensive incentives package
  2. Explore ways to increase land availability for priority housing
  3. Introduce tenant relocation and rental stock protection policies
  4. Pilot prezoning in select areas near town centres
  5. Create opportunities for gentle density
  6. Increase the number of accessible units in Delta
  7. Strengthen partnerships and advocacy
  8. Pilot inclusionary zoning


Next steps

Now that the Housing Action Plan has been approved, City staff are already working to implement the actions in the plan to address Delta's housing needs. Thank you to everyone who has contributed so far, and we look forward to continuing this important work.

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