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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

Not Just Us: 13 cities where Millennials are priced out

From grist:…
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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

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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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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