http://www.housing.gov.bc.ca/housing/docs/web_secondary_suites.pdf
- site does not appear to be working at the moment, you can view this particular document here.
The following articles are perhaps one the the best written, simplest to understand, explanations of how secondary units benefit a neighborhood and how these units will be built illegally, if the gov't does not allow them.
- Secondary Suites: a Call for Safe and Legal Housing http://www.tenants.bc.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/Secondary%20Suites_A%20Call%20for%20Safe%20and%20Legal%20Housing.pdf
- "Most Municipalities have adopted a policy of passive enforcement with respect to secondary suites. They don't actively hunt out illegal suites (again, the vast majority of suites), but they will shut down those against whom they have received a complaint. Throughout B.C., recognition is dawning that the 'see no evil, hear no evil' approach does not make an adequate or acceptable housing policy. Consequently, many municipalities have recently begun a tentative process of public discussion of secondary suites, and three cities - Vancouver, Surrey, and North Vancouver - now have limited 'legalization' programs"
- Seondary Suites: a Tenant Survey http://www.tenants.bc.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/Secondary%20Suites%20A%20Tenant%20Survey.pdf
- contains charts comparing rental income of second suites to market rate rental units, discussion on necessity of legal and illegal units to provide housing, debunks myths/fears against allowing secondary suites
- Impact of Secondary Suites on Municipal Infrastructure and Services http://www.tenants.bc.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/The_Impact_of_Secondary_Suites.pdf
- Vancouver: Role of Secondary Suites, Rental Housing Strategy Guide - Study 4 http://www.tenants.bc.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/RSH%20Secondary%20Suites%20Study.pdf
