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Jun. 24, 2015 / Gordon Price

The Daily Durning: Model project for Jericho Lands

We think Durning is joshing: . A housing complex in San Buenaventura, Mexico. Ideal project for the Jericho lands. .…
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Jun. 24, 2015 / Gordon Price

Morning Thought: HITS for Vancouver

This is boggling: From The Globe and Mail: Chinese envoy says lack of oversight behind Vancouver’s house-price crisis . The…
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Jun. 23, 2015 / Gordon Price

San Francisco’s Housing Crisis Explained

  A long article (highly abridged here) by Kim-Mai Cutler in TechCrunch from last year that Eli Goldberg thinks is…
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Jun. 22, 2015 / Gordon Price

The Daily Durning’s Housing Summary

Toderian on growth in Metro how-cities-grow-big-not-how-big-cities-grow . But are some municipalities in Metro doing more than others? I refer back…
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Jun. 22, 2015 / Gordon Price

The Impact of Airbnb on rental housing in Vancouver

Another piece of research by Karen Sawatsky, whom PT has featured before (via Daily Durning) on Community Amenity Charges: “Back…
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Jun. 18, 2015 / Gordon Price

“This City Life” has a new series on Kids in the City

. From Jillian Glover: I recently launched a new series on “This City Life” called Kids in the City –…
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Jun. 18, 2015 / Gordon Price

Morning Thought: The Ecology of Housing Prices

It’s hardly an original thought to think of housing as ecological: nothing stands in isolation, no piece is separate from…
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Jun. 16, 2015 / Gordon Price

“Give Us Data” Rally, with a political addition – Jun 24

Scot adds this, via change.org: . “Give Us Data” Rally, June 24th  . When it comes to foreign investment and…
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Jun. 16, 2015 / Gordon Price

The Daily Scot: The Hongcouver Interview

Scot thinks this podcast is worth your time.  Click through to the site; interview starts at 2.55 . South China…
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Jun. 16, 2015 / Gordon Price

Big Money, Big Buildings … and why just adding supply doesn’t work

Durning chooses this from CityLab: The Big, Big, Big, Big Money Behind Tall Buildings How super-luxury apartments became a major…
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Jun. 16, 2015 / Gordon Price

Housing Costs Down Under

Michael Kluckner is in Australia – and it feels kinda like home: The papers are as full of affordability stories…
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Jun. 10, 2015 / Gordon Price

Panel: Friends of Hong Kong on Housing Affordability – Jun 19

Housing affordability is the first to come to mind when we look at issues commonly shared between Metro Vancouver and…
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Jun. 10, 2015 / Gordon Price

I was a secondary supervisor on this thesis by  Chelsea Novak at the UBC Graduate School of Journalism – one worth the…
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Jun. 10, 2015 / Gordon Price

Not Just Us: 13 cities where Millennials are priced out

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