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Recognizing that affordable housing is a top concern and priority for the UBC community, Campus Vision 2050 will incorporate findings from a review and update to the university’s key housing affordability policy, the Housing Action Plan (HAP).
The HAP is a 30-year strategy for how UBC uses its land and financial resources to support student, faculty and staff housing choice and affordability.
As part of Campus Vision 2050, UBC is reviewing the HAP. The review explores how growth can meet the Campus Vision 2050 guiding principle to “Confront the Affordability Crisis” and an emerging 'big idea' to provide more housing and expanded affordability for UBC.
The review will result in an updated HAP, which will accompany the final 30-Year Vision for the campus.
The HAP review includes three phases from spring 2022 through spring 2023:
Background and Initial Engagement (spring-September 2022)
Analysis (October-December 2022)
Recommendations (January-March 2023).
To provide housing choice and affordability for faculty, staff and students, UBC currently uses its land and financial resources for:
UBC Community Home Ownership Programs support recruitment and retention through low interest rate loans and down payment assistance to buy a home on or off campus.
Opportunity to do more: Explore expanding eligibility and funding.
Faculty-Staff Rental Housing supports recruitment and retention through on campus rental housing 25 per cent below market rates. For moderate-income faculty and staff, a Rent-Geared-to-Income pilot program caps rents at 30 per cent of gross income.
University Community Rental Housing provides housing choice for those who work or study on campus through market rate rental.
Opportunity to do more: Explore increasing the current rental housing target beyond 30 per cent.
Student Housing supports student wellbeing and delivers housing choice including traditional dormitories, shared suites, studio units, and family housing.
Opportunity to do more: Explore building and financing at least 3,300 new beds above the current total of 14,000.
Market Leasehold Housing provides housing choice and supports livable, sustainable communities through financial support for UBC priorities.
Opportunity to do more: Leverage Campus Vision 2050 growth to support more housing and expanded affordability.
UBC suffers from limited connectivity with the broader region—socially, economically and ecologically—and getting to, from and around the 400-hectare campus can be difficult for many. Campus Vision 2050 must improve connections within campus and to the broader region.
Strategies:
Plan for SkyTrain, including enabling academic growth, housing options and research and community partnerships.
Prioritize the use of active and sustainable transportation modes on campus, and respond to future mobility trends.
Create a safe and comfortable transportation network that is easy to navigate.
Enhance ecological connectivity and the role the campus can play in achieving healthy and resilient natural systems that cross jurisdictional boundaries.
Coordinate with academic planning at UBC sites across the region to use land efficiently and serve the academic mission.
Coordinate planning of future UBC neighbourhoods and amenities with Musqueam and other regional jurisdictions.
The campus lands provide the space for world-class teaching and research facilities and thriving, complete, and livable neighbourhoods. They also support the community today and for generations to come through residential development that funds academic excellence, infrastructure and amenities, and affordable housing for faculty, staff and students. Campus Vision 2050 must ensure the campus lands continue to serve these purposes, while also providing livable and sustainable communities that continue to make UBC an exceptional place to teach, learn, live, work and play.
Strategies:
Explore responsible residential housing development to fund academic excellence, affordable faculty, staff and student housing, infrastructure and amenities, and a potential financial contribution towards the SkyTrain extension.
Follow the Musqueam practice of long-term care by balancing what one takes from and gives back to the land.
Optimize sustainability and livability in supporting a compact, livable and integrated campus.
Recognizing that affordable housing is a top concern and priority for the UBC community, Campus Vision 2050 will incorporate findings from a review and update to the university’s key housing affordability policy, the Housing Action Plan (HAP).
The HAP is a 30-year strategy for how UBC uses its land and financial resources to support student, faculty and staff housing choice and affordability.
As part of Campus Vision 2050, UBC is reviewing the HAP. The review explores how growth can meet the Campus Vision 2050 guiding principle to “Confront the Affordability Crisis” and an emerging 'big idea' to provide more housing and expanded affordability for UBC.
The review will result in an updated HAP, which will accompany the final 30-Year Vision for the campus.
The HAP review includes three phases from spring 2022 through spring 2023:
Background and Initial Engagement (spring-September 2022)
Analysis (October-December 2022)
Recommendations (January-March 2023).
To provide housing choice and affordability for faculty, staff and students, UBC currently uses its land and financial resources for:
UBC Community Home Ownership Programs support recruitment and retention through low interest rate loans and down payment assistance to buy a home on or off campus.
Opportunity to do more: Explore expanding eligibility and funding.
Faculty-Staff Rental Housing supports recruitment and retention through on campus rental housing 25 per cent below market rates. For moderate-income faculty and staff, a Rent-Geared-to-Income pilot program caps rents at 30 per cent of gross income.
University Community Rental Housing provides housing choice for those who work or study on campus through market rate rental.
Opportunity to do more: Explore increasing the current rental housing target beyond 30 per cent.
Student Housing supports student wellbeing and delivers housing choice including traditional dormitories, shared suites, studio units, and family housing.
Opportunity to do more: Explore building and financing at least 3,300 new beds above the current total of 14,000.
Market Leasehold Housing provides housing choice and supports livable, sustainable communities through financial support for UBC priorities.
Opportunity to do more: Leverage Campus Vision 2050 growth to support more housing and expanded affordability.
UBC suffers from limited connectivity with the broader region—socially, economically and ecologically—and getting to, from and around the 400-hectare campus can be difficult for many. Campus Vision 2050 must improve connections within campus and to the broader region.
Strategies:
Plan for SkyTrain, including enabling academic growth, housing options and research and community partnerships.
Prioritize the use of active and sustainable transportation modes on campus, and respond to future mobility trends.
Create a safe and comfortable transportation network that is easy to navigate.
Enhance ecological connectivity and the role the campus can play in achieving healthy and resilient natural systems that cross jurisdictional boundaries.
Coordinate with academic planning at UBC sites across the region to use land efficiently and serve the academic mission.
Coordinate planning of future UBC neighbourhoods and amenities with Musqueam and other regional jurisdictions.
The campus lands provide the space for world-class teaching and research facilities and thriving, complete, and livable neighbourhoods. They also support the community today and for generations to come through residential development that funds academic excellence, infrastructure and amenities, and affordable housing for faculty, staff and students. Campus Vision 2050 must ensure the campus lands continue to serve these purposes, while also providing livable and sustainable communities that continue to make UBC an exceptional place to teach, learn, live, work and play.
Strategies:
Explore responsible residential housing development to fund academic excellence, affordable faculty, staff and student housing, infrastructure and amenities, and a potential financial contribution towards the SkyTrain extension.
Follow the Musqueam practice of long-term care by balancing what one takes from and gives back to the land.
Optimize sustainability and livability in supporting a compact, livable and integrated campus.
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As part of the process to update the UBC Housing Action Plan, UBC commissioned a study of the housing needs of faculty and staff and how well the current set of housing programs is meeting those needs.
The findings of the study, along with extensive engagement with students and student groups on campus, is helping to inform future housing policy on campus.
The HAP is a 30-year strategy for how UBC uses its land and financial resources to support student, faculty and staff housing choice and affordability.
Housing Action Plan Draft Principles and Policies Summary (1.21 MB) (pdf)
