The latest research from the Sightline Institute:   How Seattle Killed Micro-Housing Micro-housing—dorm-room-sized apartments in desirable, walkable neighborhoods—isn’t for everyone,…

From the New York Times, with some relevance for Vancouver: ‘The Market Is Saturated’: Brooklyn’s Rental Boom May Turn Into…

Community Land Trusts: The Solution to Our Affordable Housing Crisis? Are CLTs the vehicle to retain much needed affordable housing…

Occasional PT correspondent Michael Geller writes in the Courier about seven lessons Vancouver could learn from Montreal. Good old bike stuff,…

This via Neil Lamontagne via Ray Spaxman … The world’s tallest timber tower, at UBC near the old Student Union…

Along with rising home ownership prices, continued low rental vacancy rates are of serious concern to residents, local governments and…

The Guardian released a preliminary report prepared by Britain’s Royal Town Planning Institute on the state of planning in Britain,…

From The Sun: After tighter mortgage rules Finance Minister Bill Morneau introduced in December failed to cool the market, he…

Having coffee with Andy Yan at Waves when he points to a corner where two black boxes are attached to…

Jessica Barrett’s article in the Courier explores the long list of shortcomings in government policy to protect renters. We’re taught…

Housing unaffordable for young people in Vancouver?  It could be worse.  It could be Palo Alto – a small city…

Herb Auerbach is a long-standing real-estate development consultant in Vancouver – and the nstructor (with Michael Mortensen) for the SFU…

This article from McMansionhell outlines those proportions and massings we see on some new large single family housing that somehow doesn’t…

An Item from Ian: Great quote by the Burnaby Mayor (not) on people getting evicted with no affordable place to…