Sitemap - 2023 - Vancouver Needs More Housing
Globe: The rest of Canada should copy BC's housing policies
Housing Accelerator update, week 15
Video: Metro Vancouver is a single job market
BC: more mass timber construction
Urban design aesthetics as an obstacle
Housing Accelerator update, week 14
Image of the day: Kelowna fourplexes
Marc Miller: "The equivalent of puppy mills that are just churning out diplomas"
Speaking notes: reasons for optimism
Economic analysis of BC's multiplex and transit-oriented policies
Summary of BC's housing policies
BC considering single-stair design
Immigration and housing demand
Mon Dec 11: Social event at Hero's Welcome
Housing Accelerator update, week 12
Current approval process: slow, difficult, and expensive
Opinion: It's time for BC municipalities to unleash a flood of new housing supply
Forward Together / Greater Vancouver Food Bank fundraiser
West and Garlick: Upzoning New Zealand
Housing Accelerator update, week 11
Deny Sullivan: more pain on five-year mortgage renewals
Jagmeet Singh: no to market housing
The generational divide on housing
Two requests to Metro Vancouver Regional District
Housing Accelerator update, week 10
Allison Schertzer: conversation with a NIMBY
Speaking notes for Fraser and 17th rezoning
Wednesday's agenda: parking requirements, Shaughnessy apartments
Housing Accelerator update, week 9
BC's transit-oriented development policy
Doug Ford attacks federal Housing Accelerator agreements
What the cost bottleneck looks like
Fixing housing affordability in Vancouver
Housing Accelerator update, week 8
BC announces province-wide Small-Scale Multi-Unit policy
Opposition to a townhouse project in Saanich
Urbanism Vancouver podcast hosted by Helen Lui
Metro Van: Surrey, Burnaby, and Richmond vote to proceed with hikes to charges on new housing
Housing Accelerator news, week 7
Drop in residential land sales
District of North Van: Delbrook and Maplewood
Edmonton passes new zoning bylaw
Banning investors helps homebuyers but hurts renters
Housing Accelerator update: Quebec, Kitchener, Guelph, Burlington
Opposition to new housing in Oak Bay
Speaking notes: 6081-6083 Collingwood Place
Evan Siddall on the dangers of high home prices, pre-Covid
Edmonton's zoning bylaw renewal
Housing Accelerator: Hamilton, Mississauga, Halifax, Metro Vancouver
ABC announces housing strategy
Ford cancels Ontario Greenbelt removals
Why does Vancouver need to grow?
Housing Accelerator: Halifax, Mississauga, Vaughan
Speaking notes: Why we need more housing
Metro Vancouver board plans to hike development charges on new housing
Image of the day: Effects of Auckland upzoning
Wed Oct 4: Social event at Hero's Welcome
BC announces first housing targets
Sean Fraser asks Halifax to allow four storeys everywhere
Letter to Vancouver School Board trustees: What if the forecast for declining enrolment is wrong?
Bobo Eyrich: Don't look to multiplexes to resolve Vancouver's housing shortage
Video: Framing a house in one day in Japan
Developer gives up on building 22 units of social housing in the Downtown East Side
Vancouver passes weak multiplex policy
Federal plan to tackle the market housing shortage
Image of the day: scarcity drives up rents
Restrictive zoning and gentrification go hand in hand
Speaking notes for multiplex public hearing
VANA: Vancouver Area Neighbours Association
Image of the day: Metro Vancouver apartments
Port Moody: 2400 Clarke Street (Mary Anne's Place)
Against defeatism: how more housing brings down rents
Image of the day: Change in Metro Vancouver households by income bracket
Video: Paige Saunders on apartment amenities
Ontario: municipal progress towards 10-year targets
Housing supply ideas from Desjardins
Image of the day: The Bay Area is another boomtown reluctant to build
Reforms to the international student program
Mike Moffatt: Canada's housing crisis demands a war-time effort
Elected officials and the civil service
Image of the day: international students at Ontario colleges
Daycare near Douglas Park blocked by neighbours
Video: Vancouver's Missing Middle Explained
Multiplexes in Victoria not economically viable
Image of the Day: European and North American land use
Speakers list for Fraser and 23rd rezoning, July 2019
Frances Bula on building a laneway house
Housing scarcity in Vancouver pushes up prices and rents in Surrey
Image of the day: Brentwood high-rises
What should BC's land-use rules look like?
Hawaii: governor suspends land-use regulations for one year
The downside of low property taxes
Making $70,000/year and not able to find a rental
Image of the day: housing starts and completions in Metro Vancouver
International students and rental demand
Off-arterial apartment buildings
Staff report on Vancouver multiplexes
Image of the day: Where housing is scarce and expensive, it's difficult to have kids
A condo is much less expensive than a detached house
Avi Barzelai on building permit requirements
Walking tour this Sunday afternoon
Strong support for non-market housing
Speaking notes: False Creek North non-market housing
Vancouver multiplexes: density bonus fees announced
Andrew Sancton on development charges
Image of the day: Replacing single-detached houses with multiplexes in Portland
"A monstrosity of a six-storey building"
Investing in real estate is risky
Image of the day: Estimated housing shortfall in Metro Vancouver
Why is housing in Vancouver so expensive?
What's wrong with the "regional town centres" model?
Image of the day: G7 home prices vs. construction costs
Opposition to new housing in Mississauga
Update: CMHC raising premiums for multifamily housing because of IFRS 17
Image of the day: When prices go up and down, Vancouver housing supply doesn't respond
Speaking notes: 2325-2327 W 49th Ave
Vancouver School Board forecasts
Canadian policy: copying and gradualism
It doesn't have to be like this
Image of the day: Taxes on new housing
Calgary moves forward on housing task force recommendations
A debate over Auckland's 2016 upzoning
Yes, younger people do have it worse
Image of the day: Crowding vs. density
Oh the Urbanity!: On shade and shadow
What's the plan to upgrade Vancouver's sewers?
Image of the day: Change in children by neighbourhood
Deciding which rezoning approvals to tackle first
The financialization diagnosis is wrong
Building less expensive family-size apartments
Image of the day: Expensive cities are forcing out college-educated workers
Community Amenity Contributions: an explainer
Video: Jenny Schuetz, author of "Fixer-Upper"
Speakers list for Arbutus and 8th social housing, June and July 2022
Surrey guarantees approval timelines
Image of the day: Ontario's share of population growth and housing starts
City of Toronto legalizes four-plexes
Appeal to self-interest rather than altruism
Densification helps first-time homebuyers without hurting long-time homeowners
Liberal grassroots choose affordable housing as top priority
Image of the day: Ontario's housing shortage
Video: Oh the Urbanity! ranks urbanist North American cities
Tax increases on new housing are bad
Federal Liberals: we need both market and non-market housing
Image of the day: purpose-built market rental housing in Toronto
Housing Accelerator Fund: the details
Video: Delta mayor George Harvie supporting Ladner Village rental project
Supply constraints increased prices of apartment condos in Canadian cities (CMHC, December 2018)
Image of the day: Younger people can't move out
Video: Uytae Lee on the Vancouver Special
Parking requirements are costly
Crowding near the bottom of the housing ladder
Image of the day: Toronto is losing people
Video: Q&A with Ravi Kahlon, BC housing minister
Stuck! The Law and Economics of Residential Stagnation (Schleicher, 2017)
Oh the Urbanity!: A vacant lot in Scarborough
Fixes to the temporary foreign homebuyer ban
Image of the day: Rents and mortgage payments across Canada
Video: Nolan Gray in Vancouver
Overriding BC municipalities to allow more housing
Speakers list for 1805 Larch rezoning, December 2019
Matthew Yglesias on progress in California
Image of the day: Prices reflect scarcity
Student housing projects in BC
Trudeau announces Housing Accelerator Fund
How does Tokyo build so much housing?
Image of the day: young families leaving Toronto
Kits Point: 1000 Cypress St. vs. Senakw
Zak Vescera on Vancouver vs. Saskatoon
Ontario Housing Affordability Task Force report
Image of the day: elastic vs. inelastic supply
False Creek North non-market housing
Email to the city on proposed multiplex policy
Image of the day: Affordability in 2003-2004
Mario Polese on housing in Montreal
Fighting inflation will slow homebuilding
Getting a better read on public opinion
Why is the floor space limit for four-plexes and six-plexes so restrictive?
Image of the day: Comparison of supply elasticity in different metro areas
Video: Economic viability of infill housing
Auckland: the 2016 upzoning worked
Simple pro forma for a multiplex
Image of the day: Homebuilding and prices
Rezoning approved for social housing on Grandview Highway South east of Nanaimo
Update on California's zoning holiday
Allowing 12-storey social housing projects
2023 federal budget submission
Image of the day: Vacancies and rents
Multiplex design concepts from Bryn Davidson
Victoria approves Missing Middle initiative
Fixed rezoning fees for smaller projects
Multiplex policy update from city staff
Image of the day: The Grand Bargain in Vancouver
Territoriality vs. "we live in a society"