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Feb. 12, 2016 / Gordon Price

Item from Ian: Look out, Victoria!

Hot housing market?  Blame it on Vancouver.…
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Feb. 12, 2016 / Gordon Price

Ohrn Words: 'Losing our young?' – A Prof begs to differ

From Ken Ohrn: . Ryan Holmes of Hootsuite and Gary Mason in the Globe and Mail are both in the conversation…
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Feb. 11, 2016 / Gordon Price

Real Estate: A petition for those who have benefited from unaffordability

I’ve been wondering about this for some time: Would those of us who have ridden the property curve up to…
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Feb. 10, 2016 / Gordon Price

Ohrn Words: Do CACs add to the cost of housing?

From Ken Ohrn: . Another piece of the discussion about housing prices in Vancouver. The City of Vancouver hired consultants…
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Feb. 09, 2016 / Gordon Price

Item from Ian: An Economic Theory of NIMBYism

. Austin land-use regulations lawyer Chris Bradford (at his new blog, Club NIMBY) builds his own central thesis around the idea…
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Feb. 09, 2016 / Gordon Price

Vancouver: How much do our MLAs care about us?

Ryan Holms, CEO of tech firm Hootsuite, wrote a column a few days ago in the Financial Post: This lack…
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Feb. 07, 2016 / Gordon Price

A deliberate lack of understanding

“Poor Canadians – they just don’t understand.” – Former realtor’s assistant Lynn Yang . I’m posting this today from The Globe…
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Feb. 05, 2016 / Dan Ross

Squamish – The Heart of the Deal

Some doings a-transpirin’ up the Sea-to-Sky in Squamish: A long-planned oceanfront development agreement moved another step closer this week with…
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Feb. 05, 2016 / Gordon Price

Item from Ian and James – The Urbanarium Highrise Debate

Ian Robertson and James Bligh both attended the second of the Urbanarium debates – “Be it resolved that we should…
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Jan. 31, 2016 / Gordon Price

Q&A on the Toughest Topic in Town.

Helen Warn asked this question in response to “A Meme from TEAM” below: What do you feel we can do…
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Jan. 29, 2016 / Gordon Price

The Los Angeles Arts District

From the Daily Scot: . . What do you get when you combine block upon block of old brick warehouses…
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Jan. 27, 2016 / Gordon Price

San Diego's Community@Joy

By Daily Scot: . While visiting my friend in San Diego, we took a tour of the old streetcar suburbs…
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Jan. 24, 2016 / Gordon Price

The Third-Bedroom Challenge – 2

The second of two parts from Michael Mortensen.  (First part here.)   Making Apartments Work Harder: The Third-Bedroom Challenge  …
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Jan. 23, 2016 / Gordon Price

The Third-Bedroom Challenge – 1

The first of two parts from Michael Mortensen:   Making Apartments Work Harder: The Third-Bedroom Challenge   In a previous…

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