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May. 25, 2016 / Gordon Price

Code Red and the Housing Crisis

UBC prof Paul Kershaw has been organizing and speaking on ‘Generation Squeeze’ for some time.  But now, with Code Red…
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May. 25, 2016 / Gordon Price

The Freak Show

How did Vancouver become the least affordable city in North America? Edwin Lane reports from the Canadian city where house…
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May. 24, 2016 / Gordon Price

Quote: Upzoning and Rewarding Speculation

From Metro Vancouver & TransLink Update . Concord Pacific Developments has purchased the Vancouver Molson Coors brewery and disclosed plans to…
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May. 24, 2016 / Gordon Price

Housing and real estate: Indicators of Crisis

Just two more signs of the changing times. A Facebook site:  Foreign Investment in Vancouver Real Estate . And this…
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May. 24, 2016 / Gordon Price

The Emergence of Billionaire’s Bay

From CityLab: Mapping the Incredible Spread of Million-Dollar Homes Across San Francisco .…
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May. 24, 2016 / Gordon Price

Item from Ian: “Social rebalancing or class war?”

Ian: Let’s see some of this in West Van / Point Grey 🙂 The French capital badly needs more affordable housing…
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May. 24, 2016 / Gordon Price

Item from Ian: Housing Policy Ideas from London’s Mayor

Ian:  Thinking about Little Mountain, for instance, where there is essentially zero affordable housing added net, this kind of boldness…
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May. 21, 2016 / Gordon Price

Martyn Brown on the Housing Crisis: Analysis and Prescription

From the Straight: When the former Chief of Staff to Gordon Campbell writes an essay as scathing as this on…
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May. 20, 2016 / Gordon Price

“Don’t mess with my lottery winnings”

From the Vancouver Courier – North Shore real estate: The new gold rush . Some jurisdictions in other parts of the…
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May. 19, 2016 / Gordon Price

Surreal Estate – The Video, Part 1

From Vice: Surreal Estate – Part 1: Inside Vancouver’s Skyrocketing Housing Market Vancouver, BC is a town built on real…
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May. 19, 2016 / Gordon Price

Quote: “Some kind of hysteria”

Item from Ian: Even one of the most seasoned veteran observers of the real estate industry has been shaken by…
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May. 18, 2016 / Gordon Price

Housing Crisis in Portlandia

. Portland was so affordable, as the slogan went, that young people went there to retire. Then the city got…
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May. 18, 2016 / Gordon Price

CCPA: “Getting Serious about Affordable Housing”

A paper released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, written by Marc Lee: . THIS PAPER DRAWS UPON…
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May. 18, 2016 / Gordon Price

Daily Scot: The Monsters we live with

They’ve reached Port Moody: . This clip from The Sun is as interesting (and ironic) for the surrounding ads as…

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