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Mar. 18, 2016 / michaelkluckner

Who does density better?

In the wake of the NDP monster rally about housing affordability, reported below, provincial Housing Minister Rich Coleman rose in…
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Mar. 16, 2016 / michaelkluckner

Emergency housing forum tonight

MLA David Eby’s emergency housing forum at the Hellenic Centre Vancouver tonight is sold out – all 750 seats, apparently.…
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Mar. 16, 2016 / michaelkluckner

How fair will "Greenest City" be?

Should this sort of scene survive in Greenest City? By “this,” I mean the year-round heated outdoor patio in Vancouver,…
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Mar. 14, 2016 / michaelkluckner

Housing options for commune-ists

This story was just on the CBC’s The Current this morning, talking about sharing houses in a hippie-communal sort of…
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Mar. 07, 2016 / Gordon Price

The Daily Scot: "Poco Councilman calls out foreign owners"

Finally a politician with the guts to call it like it really is regarding foreign ownership.  (Video here.) . The…
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Mar. 03, 2016 / Gordon Price

Choices: How we might respond to the absurd growth in housing prices

Another story from Business in Vancouver that would ordinarily be mind-boggling: Vancouver home prices’ 24.5% average price hike in 2015…
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Mar. 01, 2016 / Gordon Price

Quote: The Firehose

Just printed in Business in Vancouver:  “Foreign speculation hits Metro commercial real estate“ David Goodman of HQ Commercial, who specializes…
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Feb. 24, 2016 / Gordon Price

Peter Ladner on Vancouver real estate: Sending a Message

Peter Ladner’s latest in Business in Vancouver – and his most strongly worded column on this topic.      …
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Feb. 24, 2016 / Gordon Price

The Daily Durning: Reviving the Cable Car

Says Durning: I hope the idea for a gondola up Burnaby Mountain is revived – this time pursued with more…
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Feb. 23, 2016 / Gordon Price

Daily Durning: Lesson from The Big Short

Durning: “I think your younger readers would appreciate this one.” . Watching house prices and the overheating housing market in…
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Feb. 22, 2016 / artitectus

Item from Ian: Who speaks for those who don't speak?

A comment on James’s post Who Speaks for those who are not already here the other day led Ian to…
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Feb. 15, 2016 / Gordon Price

More New Housing = Less Displacement: Some Proof

by Dan Ross . The California Legislative Analyst’s Office has released some study results showing that, in the San Francisco…
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Feb. 15, 2016 / Gordon Price

Item from Ian: House as asset, not home – consequences

YFrom The Guardian:   Figures show that, in 2015, the number of households evicted by county court-appointed bailiffs hit 42,728…
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Feb. 12, 2016 / Gordon Price

Worth Bringing Forward: Ralph Segal on CACs

I’m bringing forward a comment posted below by Ralph Segal*, who was a (now-retired) Development Permit architect with the City…

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