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Aug. 22, 2018 / Gordon Price

Bon-bons from the Housing Data Book

We asked PT readers to take a look at the overwhelming number of statistical goodies in the Housing Vancouver Data…
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Aug. 20, 2018 / Gordon Price

Candidates Panel on Housing – Sep 12

“Housing Policy in the 2018 Vancouver Civic Election: A Candidates’ Panel” How do the parties running for Vancouver’s City Council…
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Aug. 13, 2018 / Ken Ohrn

Vancouver Development – the Really Big and Spiffy New Oakridge

A bold-looking mixed-use Oakridge Centre is rising in the city, on 28 acres, at the site of a Canada Line…
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Aug. 08, 2018 / Ken Ohrn

2018 Vancouver City Elections — Rookie Council Concerns

There is little doubt that in October 2018, Vancouver voters will put in place an almost all-rookie City Council (40…
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Aug. 08, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Chinatown Benevolent Association is Building Seniors’ Social Housing

Melody Ma said it boldly in her tweet on Carlito Pablo’s story in The Georgia Straight about the new housing development proposed…
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Aug. 01, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Views vs Rental Towers in Northeast False Creek

It is shaping up to be an interesting municipal election year with the main hot topics being polarizing, and forming…
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Jul. 26, 2018 / Ken Ohrn

Careful Progress, Baby Steps: Vancouver’s Jericho Lands

The 90-acre Jericho Lands, a huge greenfield, sits in Vancouver’s West Point Grey neighbourhood. We all wonder what will rise…
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Jul. 26, 2018 / Gordon Price

The Ending of the Housing Crisis

Note the gerund in the headline — I’m asking whether we’re in a moment when the housing crisis, as we’ve…
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Jul. 19, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Eliminating Vancouver’s Single Family Housing Zones & the “RBV” Index for Demolitions

Patrick Sisson at Curbed.com reports on the ground breaking (no pun intended) work of  two Vancouver locals~Joseph Dahmen, a professor of architecture…
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Jul. 16, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

The B.C. Suburb Where You Can’t Play on the Street

Even BBC News picked up the absolutely unbelievable story of this “no fun” suburban neighbourhood. The community of Chemainus (part of…
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Jul. 16, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

The View from the New York Times on the $2.7 Million House in Lions Bay

Last week, Lisa Prevost of The New York Times took a look at purchasing a four-bedroom house on the “bluffs” of Vancouver; in…
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Jul. 12, 2018 / Ken Ohrn

Vancouver’s Mayoral Race — Ian Campbell Speaks

Vision Vancouver’s mayoral candidate Ian Campbell has published an op-ed in the Georgia Straight. In it, he starts to disclose…
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Jul. 12, 2018 / VWPT Vancouver

Opinion: Time to Look at “Dirty Money” in Real Estate

Peter German’s 250-page report “Dirty Money“, delivered to Attorney General David Eby on March 31 and to the people of…
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Jul. 11, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

After ALR Sell-Off, Richmond Council Candidate Calls for Update to Conflict of Interest Rules

There’s no way to sugar coat what has been happening in the City of Richmond with the majority of their…

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