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Nov. 29, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

Avoiding the Vancouver Vacancy Tax

  The Better Dwelling.com folks  describe it here:  “You get a Vancouver address, live in one of the city’s nicest…
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Nov. 29, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

Vancouver Rental Rates and Vacancies-Stats Canada

The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) has released its latest survey showing that Metro Vancouver’s vacancy rate for purpose-built…
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Nov. 24, 2016 / Gordon Price

Jake Fry: Making Heritage and Housing a Win-Win

A proposal for increasing attainable home ownership and/or rental that builds on the City of Vancouver’s Heritage Revitalization Agreement (HRA) policy…
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Nov. 24, 2016 / Gordon Price

Dept. of Irony: Trump's Climate Legacy – 2

Possibly a housing mortgage collapse rivaling 2008. From the New York Times: The real estate industry, particularly along the vulnerable…
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Nov. 23, 2016 / Gordon Price

Patrick Condon: Carving Up Vancouver

Given the more serious consideration being given to addressing the affordable housing issue through rezoning, Byrn Davidson thinks this piece…
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Nov. 22, 2016 / Gordon Price

The Silliness of the Unfunctional Front Yard

By Byrn Davidson: ‘Single Family Character’ Vs. Functional Front Yards . One of the unique things about Vancouver’s ‘single family’…
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Nov. 22, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

Fair Trade Zones for City Renters?

It is no news that it is difficult to find an affordable place to rent in Vancouver, and that has…
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Nov. 22, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

AirBnB now providing concierges with those condos

  In what is a pretty well thought out and executed play, AirBnB has announced their latest venture. The upstart…
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Nov. 16, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

The "Santana Row" effect coming to your commercial area

There is a new “mall reinvention” in town-and you may  find it on a street near you.As reported in the…
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Nov. 15, 2016 / Gordon Price

Backlash in Mountain View: Meeting housing demand in Silicon Valley

From the New York Times: Teslas in the Trailer Park: A California City Faces Its Housing Squeeze Over the last…
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Nov. 15, 2016 / Gordon Price

Portland: Options for Housing – and for People

From Sightline Daily – The Portland Plan: Down with McMansions, Up with Abundant Housing Options  This article combines and adapts three…
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Nov. 04, 2016 / Ken Ohrn

Housing Density — Why??

Sam Sullivan answers the question. He makes the case in favour of density, and against sprawl; envisioning a fourth wave of…
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Nov. 03, 2016 / Ken Ohrn

Geller On Zoning

Michael Geller writes in Postmedia’s Vancouver Sun with many thoughts on land use, as aired at the recent Re:Address conference.…
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Oct. 31, 2016 / Ken Ohrn

Density – the New Bike Lane

As transportation (bike lanes!!) appears to be receding as a hot cultural change issue, housing density’s noise level is rising.  This…

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