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From Jillian Glover:
I recently launched a new series on “This City Life” called Kids in the City – profiles of families who embrace compact urban living in all of its forms (condo, townhouse, duplex, etc). My goal is to showcase how families can be happy and healthy living in compact homes that don’t contribute to urban sprawl.
Here is a link to the profiles:
I also recently wrote a blog post on the importance of building more family-friendly homes in Vancouver and encouraging millenials to give up on single-family home ownership:
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Here’s an oldie from a decade ago with my young family. I’d move back downtown today …
Michael Mortensen
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/25/realestate/spurring-urban-growth-in-vancouver-one-family-at-a-time.html?_r=0
Why on earth would anyone encourage millenials to give up on the idea of owning a single family home? Does it make you feel somehow more virtuous that you shoehorned yourself into a tiny living space so that some rich foreigner could buy the homes that were attainable by your parents just a decade or two ago? I’ve never heard of anything so silly.
Hmmmm…the series would benefit from more ethnic diversity. Looking forward to reading new profiles.