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May. 12, 2015 / Gordon Price

Quote: Barbara Yaffe

From The Vancouver Sun: . Barbara Yaffe: Realtors devising creative strategies to win bidding wars . Vancouver lawyer Dave Turner…
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May. 11, 2015 / Gordon Price

Why hasn’t the housing dilemma become a political issue?

The Globe and Mail‘s Vancouver real-estate writer, Kerry Gold, has been doing some of the best analysis on our housing…
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May. 11, 2015 / Gordon Price

A wave of change in Seattle

A Seattle friend reports: “This year is the start of an unprecedented wave of change in our neighborhoods.” . .  …
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May. 08, 2015 / Gordon Price

The Daily Durning: H + T in Metro Vancouver

Metro Vancouver does some great reports (and a lousy job in publicizing them.)  Fortunately, there’s Durning, who draws attention to…
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May. 08, 2015 / Gordon Price

Recommended Reading: Spencer Thompson on “The Problem”

In the same Facebook thread noted in the post below, this post by blogger Spencer Thompson was thought to sum…
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May. 08, 2015 / Gordon Price

Quote: The persistence of disadvantage

I’m not sure I see “immigration” having any direct bearing on Vancouver’s housing-affordability catastrophe anyway. I may be wrong, but…
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May. 07, 2015 / Gordon Price

City Conversations: Your Home: expectations, needs and what’s real – Today, May 7

  Your Home: expectations, needs and what’s real  . Housing prices inflate, seemingly without pause. Modest but serviceable Vancouver cottages…
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May. 06, 2015 / Gordon Price

The disturbing loss of lower-income rental stock in Burnaby

This is astonishing, and not in a good way: . . From Business in Vancouver: A wave of land speculators…
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May. 06, 2015 / Gordon Price

How Seattle beats Vancouver

 From KIRO TV: New apartments could offer transit passes instead of parking . In a presentation to the city council…
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May. 05, 2015 / Gordon Price

Roundtable: Housing and Photography in Vancouver

A roundtable on housing and photography in Vancouver will be held at grunt gallery in relation to Henri Robideau’s Eraser Street exhibit.…
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Apr. 30, 2015 / Gordon Price

Recommended Readings: Transit, development, who should pay and how

Two articles worth bringing forward.  The first by Kerry Gold in the Globe and Mail: . In Vancouver, developers’ plans…
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Apr. 30, 2015 / Gordon Price

Conference: Building Opportunities – Jun 1-3

Presented by the Vancouver-based Social Purpose Real Estate Collaborative and the Denver-based Non Profit Centres Network, the conference focuses on…
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Apr. 29, 2015 / Gordon Price

Video: Günter Lang on passive housing design

Günter Lang of Lang Consulting and Passive House Austria is an experienced researcher and leader in the field of Passive…
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Apr. 29, 2015 / Gordon Price

Suburban Selfishness in Melbourne

Greg Vann links to this: This month Boroondara council banned new buildings of more than three storeys in 31 shopping…

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