Jack Sandor

Exciting motion from @davethompsonvic.bsky.social and @mattdellvictoria.bsky.social this week to expand the AAA network along Begbie and Pandora. Email mayorandcouncil@victoria.ca to show your support!

Coldest Night of the Year walk with team @homesforliving.ca! Collectively over $150k has been raised for Our Place society

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If you freeze buildings from changing, rich people just take up more space.

An extreme version of what is happening across wealthy cities

When housing is scarce, REITs profit — Jack Sandor for Victoria City Council 2026 When we build more housing, REITs lose money.

I wrote another blog post! This one's a short one about REITs and their relationship with new housing supply.

www.jacksandor.ca/blog/what-re...

Amazing: combination of sustainability and affordability and quality.
#yyj #circulareconomy

That woman does that constantly. So does Mehdi Bagheri, who's running for Saanich council, has consistently posted massive amounts of AI slop, sometimes literally leaving the prompts in. His entire website is AI generated as well.

"Vacancy-chain research does not suggest new buildings can replace the type of deeply affordable housing that public subsidy enables. But the potential for market-rate construction to help even low-income renters is significant."

That makes these cuts even less justifiable.

YouTube video by About Here Could this be a Solution to Gentrification?

If you want to learn more about community land trusts, this is a great video from Utaye Lee on the subject.

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Very exciting to be at 716 Johnson to see the work being done by the Arts and Community Infrastructure Foundation, a local charity aiming to create a community land trust to safeguard community arts and culture spaces (RIP to Logan's, the VEC, and many others that have been lost).

They need to get their act together, this is becoming embarassing.

Glad to hear that at least. If the province is unwilling to properly fund this kind of thing, they need to give lower levels of government the tools to fund it themselves.

Brutal. Millions and millions of dollars wasted on projects that now won't go ahead, and thousands of affordable homes gone, all in service of shielding the wealthy from paying slightly more in taxes. Disgusting.

BCT had requested a 15k hour expansion for Vic to *maintain* service levels due to increasing congestion.

In denying expansion, and actually cutting, the province has made clear that Transit isn't a core service and that they are fine with seeing service quality degrade.

So much for Climate goals.

A portion of the Strøget pedestrian street in Copenhagen that widens into a grand people-place.

One of the most successful pedestrian streets in the world, the Strøget in Copenhagen, was filled with cars until a 2 year pedestrianization pilot project in 1962. The opposition argued “no cars means no business,” but the street has been a massive retail success, the city’s busiest shopping street.

Building dense, walkable, rollable, transit-rich and amenity-rich neighborhoods (and transitioning away from car-dependence asap) is critical to our climate goals and climate resilience, and how we increase affordability, safety, tree canopy, address segregation, and help support salmon and orcas.

Yeah that's the main plan. Already hit over 500 doors so feeling good!

Canada has exactly one city with good weather and it’s too tiny Or how to cure thousands of Canadians of Seasonal Affective Disorder

YIMBYs and urbanists often make the point that you should let people live where they want: near jobs, schools and amenities. I'd like to make a special case for Canada: we should let people live where the weather is good!

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I'll take that advice and simply just do ~11% more of it, bada bing bada boom

And that's one of the greatest regrets of my life. If elected, I promise to never again be nine years old.

From the VictoriaBC community on Reddit: AMA with city council candidate Jack Sandor from 5-7PM Explore this post and more from the VictoriaBC community

I'm doing an AMA (ask me anything) today! Come ask whatever burning questions you've got.

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There's actually no higher form of praxis than screaming into the void from the internet

Instead of increasing the police budget, we should provide UBI to homeless youth/people in #yyj

This is true of many, many things.

And blue states continue to drive themselves into electoral oblivion.

If you're not aware of Alec, you should be. Excellent stuff.

l've been thinking a lot about this recently, so I wrote a blog post about it!

www.jacksandor.ca/blog/who-sho...

TLDR: our current model of paying for growth is fundamentally broken and unfair, and needs to change. It can't happen overnight, but we need to start imagining a better system.

Really looking forward to the Pandora/Begbie/Shelbourne extension!

How a Small Canadian City Tripled Cycling Rates in Just 11 Years Video: Victoria, Britiish Columbia has rapidly become "the strongest cycling city in North America that isn't widely known for it."

Protected bike lanes = One Weird Trick to Massively Increase Cycling

From the VictoriaBC community on Reddit: As we once again wake up to the smell of TACO tariff threats, where is everyone getting their Canadian-sourced goods in the CRD? Explore this post and more from the VictoriaBC community

Buy local, buy Canadian.🇨🇦

A discussion on Reddit right now of where to buy in the Capital region.
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#yyj #elbowsup