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Feb. 19, 2019 / Sandy James Planner

Foreign Property Investment for Visas Displacing Locals in Athens

Imagine you are in a country that is looking to increase investment in a floundering real estate market. Even though…
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Feb. 18, 2019 / Gordon Price

How to Fund Affordable Housing

From Michael Alexander: First sunny day above freezing, and the newish playground next to Science World is packed as usual,…
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Feb. 18, 2019 / Sandy James Planner

Los Angeles~Homelessness & Hypothermia

Addressing the popular myth that people migrate to warmer places to be homeless, this article in the Los Angeles Times …
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Feb. 11, 2019 / Gordon Price

Worth Bringing Forward: Comparative San Francisco

Michael Alexander adds to the post below on Seattle: We really should pay more attention to local government in San…
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Jan. 28, 2019 / Jada Natalie Stevens

Councillors Christine Boyle and Khelsilem Discuss Housing Affordability on This is Vancolour

On the latest episode of the This is Vancolour podcast, Vancouver City Councillor Christine Boyle and Squamish First Nation Councillor Khelsilem…
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Jan. 24, 2019 / Ken Ohrn

World of Renting

More than 50% of households in Vancouver rent their home, and the vacancy rate is below 1%. Here’s an another…
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Jan. 23, 2019 / Gordon Price

Spending and Sending Messages on the 800-Block Robson

For all of Vancouver’s history, one thing has been invariably true: we prize our public spaces, our parks and waterfront…
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Jan. 21, 2019 / Ken Ohrn

Civic Politicos’ New Year’s Messages

Cambie Report has something new for you, which gives a sense of where some of Metro Vancouver’s leaders wish to…
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Jan. 15, 2019 / Ken Ohrn

Zoning, Consulting, and the Citywide Plan

Coming to Vancouver City Council from staff sometime real soon now are the parameters of a Citywide Plan process.  It…
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Jan. 03, 2019 / Gordon Price

The Incremental Ending of Single-family Zoning

As Vancouver and Seattle engage in discussion about new forms of housing in what were once single-family housing zones, other…
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Dec. 21, 2018 / Gordon Price

The New Political Axis as Seen by the Voters

Eugene Kayal likes the Bushfield-Prest Chart too.  “I mapped parties’ positions on municipal issues (from a Cambie Report analysis) onto the…
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Dec. 19, 2018 / Gordon Price

It’s Not the Building, It’s the Message

  So far, the opposition has the momentum – to newer, denser development in the region. The District of North…
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Dec. 19, 2018 / Gordon Price

Best Satire: When you can’t tell if it’s real

For an example of really good satire (when you can’t be sure it isn’t real), see the current Vancouver Glass*:…
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Dec. 18, 2018 / Colin Stein

Four and a Half Minutes on Vancouver Housing (Video)

Uytae Lee of About Here recently teamed up with The Mix to do a short primer on the insanity that…

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