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Dec. 18, 2019 / Gordon Price

Twinning Tweets: Why the housing crisis won’t be solved in Vancouver

At Vancouver City Hall, December 18: Vancouver council approved a contentious rezoning application to build a five-storey rental building at…
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Dec. 17, 2019 / Gordon Price

Larry Cudney’s Revenge – The Story of the Vancouver Special

A big shout-out to author Jesse Donaldson: “Land of Destiny: A History of Vancouver Real Estate” is a fun, fascinating…
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Dec. 03, 2019 / Gordon Price

Goodman Gate

Goodman, Vancouver’s pre-eminent seller of small (and some large) apartment blocks, has raised the alert about a Council motion that…
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Nov. 22, 2019 / Gordon Price

Rental Apartment Rezoning: Place Your Bets

When Councillors consider this report on November 26 – Rental Incentives Review Phase II – “to create new zoning districts…
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Nov. 10, 2019 / Barry Rueger

North Shore Housing? Thanks Tsleil-Waututh and Squamish!

If you’ve been following the plans by the Squamish nation to build 6000 units of housing near the Burrard Bridge,…
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Oct. 17, 2019 / Gordon Price

The Grand Bargain, Illustrated

  You won’t likely find “The Grand Bargain” in a planning text, even though it explains in a phrase the…
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Oct. 16, 2019 / Gordon Price

Daily Scot in Victoria – 3: Harris Green

From Daily Scot: Walking through Victoria’s Harris Green neighbourhood located just east of downtown, you witness first hand the city’s…
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Oct. 04, 2019 / Gordon Price

Panel: What’s the Use of Heritage? – Oct 9

Shaping Vancouver 2019: What’s the Use of Heritage? Conversation #2: What do we do about neighbourhoods? Some argue that “neighbourhood…
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Oct. 04, 2019 / Gordon Price

Portland Has a Choice: Garages or Low Prices?

The latest from Michael Anderson at the Sightline Institute: For three years, Portland’s proposal to re-legalize fourplexes citywide has been…
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Sep. 30, 2019 / Gordon Price

Josh Kepkay’s Podcast: “What the Future Holds with Gordon Price”

Josh Kepkay is a realtor, and now a podcaster – an opportunity, of course, to increase his profile while having…
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Sep. 26, 2019 / Alexandra Doran

Checking In on Rental Housing and Tenant Protection: City of Vancouver Housing Strategy Progress, VTU, and Making Your Voice Heard!

In recent years efforts across the City of Vancouver are being made to not only create new rental housing stock,…
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Sep. 05, 2019 / Gordon Price

Rebuilding West Davie

As a consequence of the West End Community Plan of 2013, there is a massive rebuilding of the blocks on…
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Aug. 13, 2019 / Sandy James Planner

Order your Prefabricated Modular Home on Amazon for $50,000

Amazon has entered the prefabricated housing market in their offer of a house for 50,000 Canadian dollars or 37,000 U.S.…
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Jul. 31, 2019 / Gordon Price

Rental Housing: Transformation and the Status Quo

Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of three- (arguably four-) storey frame apartment buildings were constructed in Vancouver after the Second World War. …

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