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Jun. 01, 2015 / Gordon Price

Vanity, Investment and A Safe Haven – The Vancouver Housing Dilemma

Ian Robertson links to this column by Jonathan Manthorpe in Facts and Opinions.  In fact, the column is not so…
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Jun. 01, 2015 / Gordon Price

Bob Rennie’s “19 Influencers on High Housing Costs”

Novae Res Urbis covered the talk Bob Rennie gave to the Urban Development Institute in which he supported a ‘speculation…
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May. 29, 2015 / Gordon Price

The Daily Scot: Win-Wins in Victoria – 3

Scot recently spent a few days in Victoria: . . A new biker gang has moved into Victoria’s Fernwood neighbourhood.  Cruising…
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May. 29, 2015 / Gordon Price

The Daily Durning’s Weekly Housing Summary

A compilation from Tom Durning: . Surprisingly little local press on the overturn of the Brenhill decision by the Appeal…
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May. 28, 2015 / Gordon Price

The Daily Scot: Win-Wins in Victoria – 2

Scot recently spent a few days in Victoria and will be sharing his thoughts on the city across the water: .…
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May. 28, 2015 / Gordon Price

The Affordable Housing Rally – 2

Worth bringing forward. John Graham does the numbers: Number of single family dwellings in the Greater Vancouver area: 949,565 Average…
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May. 28, 2015 / Gordon Price

The Affordable Housing Rally – May 24

. Was the affordable housing rally a tipping point?  Click to enlarge  . It has a broad and evident appeal:…
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May. 27, 2015 / Gordon Price

The Daily Scot: Win-Wins in Victoria

Scot recently spent a few days in Victoria and will be sharing his thoughts on the city across the water throughout…
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May. 22, 2015 / Gordon Price

The Changing Face (and Reality) of London

Antje links to this extraordinarily well-illustrated piece in the MailOnline: . London enters the age of the skyscraper . Around 70…
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May. 22, 2015 / Gordon Price

Exciting Weekend Reading: New Metro Vancouver Reports

Metro Vancouver has recently published a number of reports: Office Development in Metro Vancouver’s Urban Centres Update Report Short Sea…
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May. 22, 2015 / Gordon Price

A Livability Index: Canada needs this too

Another index that measures livability, but only in the States.  Pity. From Better Cities & Towns: . AARP has launched…
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May. 22, 2015 / Gordon Price

Housing Affordability: “The time for denialism is over”

A column that only Ian Young could write: . The realisation that something is grotesquely awry with Vancouver’s housing market has…
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May. 21, 2015 / Gordon Price

The Crunch: Growth, productivity, high housing costs … and transit

Janis Magnuson asks: What do you think a similar analysis would find in Canada/Vancouver? By Richard Florida, from CityLab. . The…
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May. 19, 2015 / Gordon Price

Ohrn Words: Jericho and TOD

From Ken Ohrn: . Kerry Gold writes in the Globe and Mail about the nascent and massive Jericho development. Her…

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