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Jun. 02, 2017 / Gordon Price

Lessons of Dreamland

The Sun posts a fine background on the new planning process for South False Creek: Council voted unanimously this week…
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Jun. 02, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

City Schools Looking for Kids

The Tyee and Carlito Pablo have written about the continuing decline of student registraton in Vancouver, with a further 250 kids…
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May. 31, 2017 / Gordon Price

Affordable Housing: "How to live in Vienna"

Want to learn more about social housing in Vienna? Go to the Vancouver Museum exhibition.  And watch this “How to…
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May. 31, 2017 / Gordon Price

Item from Ian: Home and Homelessness in Portland

Ian: Tale of Portland … not so different than Van, it seems. In Portland, for example, journalists have been writing about…
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May. 31, 2017 / Gordon Price

Comparing High-Growth Neighbours: Seattle and Vancouver

From the Seattle Transit Blog: Seattle’s growth is still accelerating. Census estimates released yesterday show almost 21,000 new residents in…
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May. 30, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Chinatown and a Twelve Storey Building

Business in Vancouver has published a think piece by Kirk Lapointe regarding the contentious development of a twelve storey building by…
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May. 30, 2017 / Gordon Price

Panel in Port Moody: "Boomers, Millennials, Housing and Communities"

Boomers, Millennials, Housing and Communities: Metro Vancouver’s evolving demographics Hot off the heels of Census 2016, the Port Moody Public…
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May. 30, 2017 / Gordon Price

Quote: The Difficult Demographics of Change

From an op-ed in Postmedia papers: Older Canadians are not the problem. Older Canadians pay a disproportionate share of municipal taxes,…
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May. 26, 2017 / Gordon Price

The Dilemma of Affordable Housing Design

We never used to have a term called ‘affordable housing.’  If housing was produced by the market, it was affordable…
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May. 24, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Ill Fares the Land while Richmond Farmland Mansion Builders Profit

It’s been a grumpy week. Despite the fact that megahouses are taking up the most arable lands in Canada in…
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May. 23, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

The Erosion of Chinatown As We Know It

Noted journalist Daphne Bramham in the Vancouver Sun  has written an article that should be required reading for everyone in…
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May. 23, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Horseshoe Bay Condo Developers Put Locals First

Jane Seyd in the North Shore News  describes the unusual policy of allowing local people to buy into a new…
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May. 19, 2017 / Gordon Price

The Real Cost Factors of Affordability

PT readers know that transportation and housing costs have to be combined when conidering affordability – and here’s more illustrated…
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May. 18, 2017 / Gordon Price

Housing Crisis: The Vienna Alternative

ALTERNATIVES TO THE HOUSING CRISIS: CASE STUDY VIENNA Using Vienna as a case study, this lecture explores the relationship of…

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