BC is a great place to live, but housing is too expensive. A home shouldn’t break the bank. Everyone should be able to afford a home and build a good life here.

That’s why we’re taking action to build affordable homes for people. And we’re making real progress – delivering 80,000 homes now, with an estimated 300,000 more homes over the next ten years on the way.

We’re tackling housing costs by taking on speculators, cutting red tape and breaking down barriers to construction:

• Our Speculation Tax has turned well over 20,000 empty condos into long-term homes.
• We’re bringing in a new flipping tax so families trying to buy a home don’t have to compete with house flippers.
• By restricting AirBNBs, we’re turning thousands of units into long-term homes.
• We’re eliminating cumbersome local government red tape, and enabling small multi-unit developments like townhouses, duplexes and triplexes that experts say is kickstarting the construction of hundreds of thousands of homes.
• We’re making it easier to build and rent out secondary/basement suites

Housing construction is at record highs, and we can’t stop now. But John Rustad and his BC Conservatives are putting our progress at risk – saying they would cancel David Eby’s Housing Action Plan and the hundreds of thousands of affordable new homes that are on the way.

That’s hardly a surprise – when he was in government, John Rustad gave free rein to speculators, flippers and out-of-province investors, resulting in low supply and jacked-up prices for the rest of us. He prefers the old rules that block housing construction, and let speculators and wealthy investors line their pockets.

No matter where you live in BC, you should have a home you can afford in a community you love. Learn more about how we're getting you there.