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Nov. 14, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Housing Bubble About to Burst in China?

This summer Price Tags wrote about the fact that 200 new measures meant to cool the housing market in China…
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Nov. 13, 2018 / Colin Stein

Two Days Left to Register for the Small Housing BC Summit

Can small housing do more to solve our housing crisis? It’s just one question that will be asked at the…
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Nov. 02, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Friday File: U.S. Republican Ad Uses British Seaside Town as an Example of American Bad Governance

You would think that there is enough talent around to create ads of generic dank towns when you are an…
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Nov. 02, 2018 / Gordon Price

The Berkeley Goes Precedential

  The Sun has picked up the Berkeley Towers issue and placed it (metaphorically) on the front page: Tenants at…
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Nov. 02, 2018 / Gordon Price

Berkeley Squared – A West End Precedent?

  Price Tags noted in this post that The Berkeley at 1770 Davie may be the first test for the new council…
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Oct. 26, 2018 / Gordon Price

Sightline’s Summary of Our Election

This is a good chance to introduce Mike Andersen – the Sightline Institute’s new writer on municipal policy, with a focus…
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Oct. 25, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Real Estate, Foreign Money and the Price of Housing

Bloomberg Businessweek has written about Vancouver being one of the first cities to receive “one of the largest financial flows of…
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Oct. 16, 2018 / Ken Ohrn

What the Tea Leaves Told Me — 2018 Vancouver Civic Election

  Poll-topper Kennedy Stewart, Vancouver mayoral candidate for the 2018 civic election, has gone public with a stronger message. I’m…
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Oct. 10, 2018 / Ken Ohrn

Culture Change — 2018 Vancouver Civic Election

Further evidence as to the political ascendancy of a different part of our cultural mix. A younger demographic, neither left…
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Oct. 10, 2018 / Ken Ohrn

Spending Those CAC Dollars — 2018 Vancouver Civic Election

Hot on the heels of Price Tags’ post on the basics of what CAC actually is, here’s a Vancouver civic…
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Sep. 28, 2018 / Colin Stein

Public Hearing Moment: With Housing, Who Makes (and Receives) Room?

One of the more remarkable aspects of the housing affordability crisis in Vancouver is the endless bloviating about community amenity…
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Sep. 26, 2018 / Gordon Price

Why traffic congestion is like the housing market

Traffic congestion on Georgia and Pender last night.  What could we possibly do about it?  Scott de Lange Boom provided…
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Sep. 25, 2018 / Gordon Price

Panel: Middle-Missing Housing – Oct 11

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Sep. 24, 2018 / Colin Stein

Small Housing Summit — Nov 17 (Vancouver)

Small Housing BC (SHBC), a Vancouver-based non-profit advocating for smaller housing forms throughout British Columbia, is hosting the Small Housing…

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