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Mar. 07, 2017 / Gordon Price

Forum – Housing: What have we done?

Housing: What have we done? Homelessness is on the rise across the Lower Mainland. But not in New Westminster. Join…
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Mar. 07, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Have High Tech Job in San Fran But Can't Pay the Rent

  CNBC reports on a sobering situation in San Francisco-even though high tech workers can make $100,000 to $700,000 a…
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Mar. 06, 2017 / Gordon Price

SALA Lecture: Sara Stevens – Mar 6

Sara Stevens   Sara Stevens is an architectural and urban historian. Her research focuses on the relationship between architecture and…
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Mar. 06, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Metropolis, Sears and Mixed Use Court Decision in Burnaby

The dynamics between shopping centre developers can be quite complex and rather secretive. CBC is reporting on the dramatic unfolding of…
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Mar. 03, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Avoiding Death by Gentle Density?

Once again from Jen St. Denis with Metro News  housing experts weigh in on the “gentle density ” proposals put…
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Mar. 03, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Rowhouses, Townhouses without Land Assembly Future Vision of Mayor

Jen St. Denis in Metro News reports on the Mayor of Vancouver’s speech to the Urban Land Institute. Unlike  real estate…
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Mar. 01, 2017 / Ken Ohrn

Density and Disasters

More and more mid-rise condos are scattered around certain areas of Puerto Vallarta.  Anecdotally, 16 more in recent years. All,…
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Mar. 01, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

New City of Vancouver Logo Benched

Metro News reports that the rather simple design for a new City of Vancouver logo which as  Melody Ma has pointed…
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Mar. 01, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

China's Banks Cooling Vancouver Housing Investment?

There are some interesting changes occurring in China which may impact the Vancouver housing market. As reported in Business in Vancouver …
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Feb. 27, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Church Rezoning versus Single Family Neighbours

  Cheryl Chan in the Vancouver Sun  reports on the  Dunbar Ryerson United Church located in Kerrisdale that has  a…
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Feb. 22, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Density and the Missing Middle-Video Now available

Further to the talk  by Michael Geller at Simon Fraser University about  European examples of “middling” density and form (as…
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Feb. 21, 2017 / Gordon Price

Daily Scot: Character Housing- "That's not going to work …"

Scot links to another story from CBC on the hottest housing story at the moment, with this note: “The video is…
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Feb. 21, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

1940, Housing, And Why this Matters

As Chris Brown reports on the CBC there has been a major brouhaha regarding the City of Vancouver’s 12,000 homes that were…
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Feb. 20, 2017 / Gordon Price

This Just In: UDI State of the Market 2016 Report

Multi-Family Housing shortage still a major issue AFFORDABILITY IS NOT EXPECTED TO IMPROVE Feb. 20, 2017 VANCOUVER, BC —Only eight…

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