Both of Oak Bay's mayoral candidates agree the area needs more housing options, but they don't agree on how it should happen. He argues offering secondary suites as rental units would allow young families to supplement their mortgages, while making use of existing units to provide more affordable housing. Incumbent Mayor Nils Jensen, left, and current city councilor and mayoral candidate Kevin Murdoch in a debate on development in Oak Bay. (CBC)Jensen's also proposing using public lands for multi-unit housing and encouraging more churches to consider offering their land for housing. He says the secondary suite plan laid out by his opponent would take two years and that's too long to address the current housing shortage.

Source: CBC News October 13, 2018 21:56 UTC