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Jun. 08, 2015 / Gordon Price

The Daily Durning: 101 East documentary – the Chinese home buying spree

Durning: “An al jezeera documentary – I don’t know when this was made, but Vancouver does not even get a mention.”…
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Jun. 08, 2015 / Gordon Price

The Daily Scot: Leaving London … and telling the world why

Scot asks, “How long until we see something like this in Vancouver?” From mashable: LONDON — People who’ve reluctantly left…
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Jun. 08, 2015 / Gordon Price

Zoned capacity for multiple-family development

An interesting factoid in the report described below: Th e study found Vancouver has existing or planned capacity for enough…
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Jun. 08, 2015 / Gordon Price

Do development charges raise the cost of housing in Vancouver?

The Province argues, based on information from unnamed industry experts, that the problem of affordability resides in part with the…
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Jun. 08, 2015 / Gordon Price

Data and Policy: Does the absence of the former justify the absence of the latter?

In response to the Mayor of Vancouver’s letter to the Premier, advocating provincial intervention in the housing market, the B.C.…
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Jun. 05, 2015 / Gordon Price

Housing Affordability: Obligations and Implications

From Business in Vancouver:. The City of Vancouver could do more to create affordable housing through better land use planning…
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Jun. 05, 2015 / Gordon Price

The Daily Durning’s Weekly Housing Summary

A compilation from Tom Durning:. . I suppose the term density creep is ‘creeping’ into planning lexicon.  Here are two…
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Jun. 03, 2015 / Gordon Price

Vancouver: A City at the Crossroads – 40 years ago

The mayor was Art Phillips, the population of the city was 425,000, Pacific Centre was under construction, Granville Mall was…
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Jun. 02, 2015 / Gordon Price

Flight Money and Affordability: global impacts and local politics

USA Today joins the chorus: . Where the world’s super-rich send residential prices soaring . … vast injection of wealth…
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Jun. 02, 2015 / Gordon Price

The Gathering Place at 20th

A few weeks ago, there was a celebration at Helmcken and Seymour for the 20th anniversary of the Gathering Place:…
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Jun. 02, 2015 / Gordon Price

The Daily Durning: Affordable Housing Plan in San Francisco

Another city that’s seriously trying to address the affordable housing challenge: . If you think Vancouver is expensive, San Francisco…
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Jun. 02, 2015 / Gordon Price

“Portland sees boom in affordable housing”

Read that headline carefully.  There’s a tendency to misread anything that suggests strategies could deliver something that seems so unachievable in…
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Jun. 01, 2015 / Gordon Price

The Daily Scot: Win-Wins in Victoria – 3

Scot in Victoria:. . Kiosks, under appreciated and often overlooked as a building form in urban areas have found their…
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Jun. 01, 2015 / Gordon Price

Not Just Vancouver: Vacant homes in Auckland

From Auckland’s transportblog, by John Polkinghome: . Are vacant homes adding to Auckland’s housing shortage? . As Auckland housing hysteria…

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