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937 View Street is a proposal to build an 19-storey rental complex in the City of Victoria's Harris Green neighbourhood.
Former incarnations of the proposal were based on 15-storey and 18-storey designs.
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We’ll recall, that developers have been trying to get something built on this property for 15 years.
We’ll recall, that developers have been trying to get something built on this property for 15 years.
This is what I'm saying. Perpetual housing crisis (that's why View Towers was built, lest we forget, because the housing crisis was raging back in the 1960s), and yet the prime lots all around View Towers have been stale for ages. The parking lot site has had at least three proposals just during the VV era.
It’s the war is peace thing.
Even if the View Tower is an eyesore, it still serves (served?) its purpose as an affordable rental site that doesn't need to be propped up by taxpayers. The spillover of addiction and homelessness into the streets is in part a result of people who would at least have a roof under their heads (ergo a semblance of home and stability) no longer having that option. Instead of someone paying their cheap landlords through market forces, now they can't do that anymore and taxpayers have to cover everything from social workers to officers to temporary hotels as a result of the myriad of problems caused by people already struggling with poverty and/or mental health not being able to afford any time of shelter on their own.
Maybe I'm getting a bit defensive here over the ill-reputation of certain buildings, but ultimately shelter is an expensive yet basic necessity and it's never a bad choice to let people build to meet that demand. If the current council were present during the times the VT, the Orchard House and other unsightly concrete high-rises were built, our parks would've long become favelas and we'd be giving Vancouver's DTES a run for its money.
All that said, it goes without saying the CoV proves itself to be an embarrassment once again and we're way past the time of the province doing something about pumping hundreds of millions into a region that refuses to let people build homes while pocketing everyone else's money.

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View Street rental proposal could rise with unit count not seen in decades
255-unit rental proposal would rise as the second most-dense residential building in downtown Victoria.

New neighbours for View Towers: 277 residences slated for adjacent parking lot
Hundreds of purpose-built rental apartments and condominium suites are planned for a parking lot between the 900-blocks of View and Fort streets.

Residential buildings planned for parking lot next to View Towers
A condominium tower and a purpose-built rental building have been proposed for a surface parking lot between the 900-blocks of Fort and View streets.