Construction can’t match demand for housing in Nanaimo: industry insiders
NANAIMO — Local construction crews can’t swing hammers fast enough to keep pace with surging development around the mid-island.
Between 2014 and 2017, Nanaimo averaged 105 building permits for single-family homes in the first four months of the year, according to City Hall data supplied to NanaimoNewsNOW.
In comparison, an average of 76 single-family construction permits were handed out in Nanaimo during the same period between 2010 and 2013.
“We get phone calls every week with people looking for property and then it’s a case of do we have the manpower to do it,” past president of the Canadian Homebuilders Association of Vancouver Island Byron Gallant said.