Housing Accelerator Fund
Current Status Spring 2026
The District’s Housing Accelerator Fund (HAF) agreement was initiated on January 24, 2024. Since January 2024, staff have been working on completing the Action Plan to speed up the supply of new housing in Ucluelet.
This has included 19 distinct projects that have been completed, and one remaining project that will be completed by summer 2026.
At the Regular Council Meeting on November 4, 2025, staff provided an update to Council and identified the remaining HAF projects to complete as agreed to with CMHC to avoid grant funding impacts.
At the Regular Council Meeting on December 9, 2025, Council considered bylaw amendments presented to fulfill HAF commitments, including:
- Pre-zoning land for multi-family housing and amendments to the R-2 Medium Density Residential zone to make infill development easier and provide more options for property owners.
- Applying rental-only zoning to existing and future purpose-built rental apartment buildings to retain long-term rental housing supply (this does not apply to the secondary rental market, such as secondary suites, coach houses, rented strata units, and rented single-detached houses).
- Amendments to the VR-1 Vacation Rental zone to make it possible to have long-term rental, short-term rental, and owner-occupation on the same property
- An updated Development Cost Charges Bylaw to ensure that “growth pays for growth”.
- An update to the Subdivision Control Bylaw to streamline the creation of green infrastructure such as rain gardens, bio-swales, and constructed wetlands.
Council considered third and final readings of bylaw amendments related to HAF projects at the Regular Council Meetings on January 13 and 27, and by January 27, all the required HAF projects were complete.
Staff Reports to Council provide details on all these projects and can be found in Council Meeting Agendas. Council Meeting Minutes provide a record of Council’s decisions on bylaw amendments and other matters.
You can view Council meeting recordings to listen to staff and consultant presentations to Council, and hear Council discussion prior to their decision-making.