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May. 17, 2016 / Gordon Price

Teardown: No good intention goes unpunished

This just in from Business in Vancouver: . Single-family lots in East Vancouver are gradually densifying through city bylaws that…
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May. 17, 2016 / Gordon Price

Daily Scot: Frenzied in Aus

Scot updates the news in their frenzied market:   MORTGAGE fraud by brokers and banks could bring on a financial…
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May. 16, 2016 / Gordon Price

Twinning Tweets: Anecdotes and impacts

Items on the frenzied Vancouver real-estate market … just over this weekend. .    *  *  *  *  *  *  …
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May. 13, 2016 / Gordon Price

Astonishing Real-estate Story of the Day

From Business in Vancouver: . No, no, silly, it’s not astonishing that foreign buyers are into high-end real estate.  It’s…
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May. 12, 2016 / Gordon Price

Item from Ian: Rent around the World

From Ian: One more in the series on new forms of living. $1800 doesn’t seem so bad in Vancouver, though…
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May. 10, 2016 / Gordon Price

Daily Scot: Trying to save your street from McMansions (in Australia)

From Domain: A bewildering mix of local and state agencies, councils, government bodies, local planning instruments and environmental controls mean…
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May. 10, 2016 / Gordon Price

Twinning Tweets: The Wicked Problem and its Coverage

The coverage on the causes of housing unaffordability and lack of government concern comes in daily.  Here are three that…
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May. 09, 2016 / Gordon Price

Daily Durning: NIMBYs and YIMBYs

A typical story – from Bloomberg: . And this: . And then there’s this: Ballot issue #300 and #301—a separate…
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May. 09, 2016 / Gordon Price

Harnessing Resentment: Another report on Vancouver’s housing crisis

Things are getting nastier.  From the Huffington Post:   The report, titled “Vancouver’s Housing Affordability Crisis: Causes, Consequences and Conclusions,” says…
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May. 06, 2016 / Gordon Price

Daily Scot: School closures and family-friendly neighbourhoods

From Scot:  Brent Toderian connects the dots between school closures and neighbourhood density.  Interesting that Vancouver and Richmond with the…
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May. 06, 2016 / Gordon Price

Item from Ian: Four visions for the future of housing.

From Ian: Just as applicable to Vancouver as the UK; each scenario is plausible here also. Which adventure are we going…
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May. 04, 2016 / Gordon Price

Item from Ian: Different city, same issue?

From San Francisco Business Times: More than a third of Bay Area residents recently polled by the Bay Area Councilsaid…
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May. 03, 2016 / Gordon Price

How to price education in Vancouver

According to Langara College:…
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May. 02, 2016 / Gordon Price

Should we end the single-family home in Vancouver?

An Item from Ian found in Vancity Buzz.   / Greg Mitchell asks the question: … let’s rethink the narrative.…

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