At their regular meeting on November 5th, Council received the 2024 Interim Housing Needs Report (IHNR) for information and directed staff to publish the report on the City’s website. This interim report updates the housing needs of the City of Pitt Meadows in accordance with provincial legislation under Bill 44 – Housing Statutes Act. With respect to producing the IHNR, municipalities have the option of completing a new HNR, or attaching the legislated required information to the City’s current HNR. Given the newness of the City’s current HNR (2022), the IHNR has been inserted as an addendum into that document. According to the IHNR, the total number of new units required to meet the City’s 5-year need is 1,521 while the 20-year housing need is 5,195.    

The table below provides an overview of the City’s 5-year and 20-year housing needs: 

Staff will commence the preparation of Official Community Plan updates to align with the Interim HNR and to ensure that there is capacity to accommodate the identified housing need. Based on staff’s preliminary analysis, this 20-year need is already accommodated in the City’s Zoning Bylaw as an outcome of the Small Scale Multi-Unit Housing amendments incorporated in June, which likely means no further Zoning Bylaw amendments would be required to accommodate the 20-year need. 

Additional information can be found in the  full report by City staff and  2024 Interim Housing Needs Report.