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Mar. 01, 2018 / michaelkluckner

Affordable micro-suite

No, it’s not a piece by Ken Lum destined for the art gallery. Instead, it’s quite an advanced little shelter…
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Mar. 01, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

New Taxes on Three Million Dollar Metro Vancouver Houses

  The NDP Provincial government introduced two initiatives that will impact housing in the three million dollar and up price…
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Feb. 22, 2018 / michaelkluckner

$$ Land Assembly economics $$

A very telling, quite neutral article about Michelle Yu and her specialty of land assemblies by Christopher Cheung in the…
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Feb. 21, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Googletown, the Next Silicon Valley?

. City Council in San Jose California is voting on giving Google “exclusive negotiating rights for parcels of city-owned land…
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Feb. 20, 2018 / Gordon Price

The Irony of Inclusionary Zoning

From oregonlive: Portland’s apartment-building binge appears to be headed off a cliff. Applications for new housing developments have nearly ground…
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Feb. 15, 2018 / michaelkluckner

CIBC backflips on "student mortgages"

Via Jak King, a blow to those students wanting to buy multi-million dollar west-side Vancouver houses, via betterdwelling.com. Foreign buyers…
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Feb. 15, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

"Kale in the Smoothies"~Duke of Data Andy Yan Interviewed on Who is Buying Vancouver Real Estate

What a difference a few years makes. Duke of Data Andy Yan was working with Bing Thom Architects in 2015…
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Feb. 15, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Concrete Pipe as Public Housing in Hong Kong

From the Duke of Data and Director of the City program at Simon Fraser University Andy Yan comes this article…
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Feb. 14, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Promo for the Perfect Toronto Tenant

What to do when you live in a city with a low vacancy rate and need a place to rent?…
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Feb. 08, 2018 / michaelkluckner

A Tale of Two Cities in one newspaper

This excellent piece of journalism by Mike Howell in The Courier, which can be read here, is paid for by…
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Feb. 08, 2018 / michaelkluckner

Unaffordable Townhouses

More evidence, if any is still needed, that the move to replace detached houses with townhouses is a development play…
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Feb. 06, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Give up Avocado on Toast, Gain a Deposit for Housing? A 26 year old's View of Buying in London

  From the always affable Daily Scot, Scot Bathgate sends this rather cheeky article from The Guardian where 26-year-old Elle Hunt who…
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Feb. 02, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

The Duke of Data Andy Yan and Who is Renting Where~City of Vancouver

The Duke of Data Andy Yan, Director of the City Program at Simon Fraser University has been reviewing the 2016…
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Jan. 31, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Northeast False Creek Plan, Coalition of Neighbourhoods, and Three Too Tall Towers

  The Coalition of Vancouver Neighbourhoods has written the following statement on their website regarding the Northeast False Creek Plan. Several of…

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