Sitemap - 2024 - Vancouver Needs More Housing
Vancouver budget task force report
Image of the day: GTA pre-construction condo prices
Repost: Forward Together / Greater Vancouver Food Bank fundraiser
"I just want some damned stability in my life"
Image of the day: Ontario housing starts
Burnaby plans for universal water metering
Villages: more retail, up to six storeys
How do high rents cause homelessness?
BC NDP and BC Greens reach agreement
Image of the day: rental completions per capita
How can we bring down transit costs?
Speaking notes for Broadway Plan review
Is housing unaffordability in Vancouver caused by scarcity or by low wages?
Building a six-storey steel-frame building in NYC
Federal proposal to tax vacant land
Strong renter protections make it harder to redevelop where there's displacement
Image of the day: material costs
NYC: congestion pricing is back
Mike Moffatt: four ways to reduce household costs
Latest housing data: completions, housing starts, building permits
Rally against the Broadway Plan
International student applications down
Surrey city council rejects Fleetwood townhouses
Repost: Getting a better read on public opinion
Broadway Plan rezonings: slides and speaking notes
Image of the day: NYC decline in homebuilding since the 1970s
Forward Together / Greater Vancouver Food Bank fundraiser
A "monstrosity" in "beautiful and exclusive Arbutus Ridge"
Image of the day: Single-lot, single-stair buildings
Raising threshold for GST on new homes
Why is Costco building housing over a new store in LA?
Trump 2.0: macroeconomic populism
Video: How your neighbours stop housing
Sharp cuts to immigration targets
Taxing land lift is an unreliable source of revenue
BC election: BC NDP re-elected with a bare majority
Central Saanich: 1934 Hovey Road
Image of the day: a hotel-style layout
Repost: Rent control and vacancy control in BC
Will New West city council reject the Columbia Square redevelopment?
Meet Josh White, Vancouver's new head of planning
The BC election: a photo finish
Image of the day: rent growth flattening out
Why are mid-rise elevators 3X as expensive in the US and Canada, compared to Europe?
David Eby's pragmatic problem-solving approach
Image of the day: filling the housing deficit in Nova Scotia
Post-election Housing Happy Hour
Urbanarium debate #17: speaking notes
Opposition to Metro Vancouver DCC increases
Advance voting in the BC election starts this week
Image of the day: people's ideas
The UK is stagnating because it's banned investment in housing, transport, and energy
Mario Canseco: poll on housing
BC NDP: Home ownership at 40% off, province-wide
Kevin Milligan on Rustad's tax-credit proposal
Urbanarium debate, Tuesday Oct 8
Allowing mixed-income social housing
Home ownership at a 40% discount
Image of the day: increases in Toronto development charges
Student caps appear to be working
Speaking notes for 1149 Lynn Valley Road
BC to require flush toilets at construction sites with 25 or more workers
North Saanich: Council rejects subdivision of a 23,000 square foot lot
BC releases standard multiplex designs
Image of the day: cross-country dissatisfaction with housing costs
Vacancies up, rents down near universities and colleges
Repost: Why single-stair design is important
Low-wage temporary foreign workers
Calls for more housing at the DNC
Keaton Bessey: unsold high-rise condos in Burnaby
C. D. Howe: a bad study of vacancy taxes
Image of the day: housing starts by province
Greg Ruben: The dramatic battle over LA's next swing set
Poilievre's housing bill would do surprisingly little
Uytae Lee explains how new "luxury housing" frees up older housing
Nova Scotia boom vs. Ontario bust
Image of the day: Midtown Toronto
Amnesty for illegal immigrants is a bad idea
Class C apartments get cheaper when there's a lot of new "luxury" Class A apartments
Burnaby: "masters of the old paradigm"
Image of the day: supply change vs. rent change
Why housing in Vancouver is about 2X as expensive as Edmonton
The need for more TransLink funding
A new five-storey rental building in Kits
Image of the day: reduced crowding in Auckland
Why does Vancouver build so many high-rises?
BC to West Van: you have 30 days
Image of the day: red vs. blue states
Patrick Condon thinks Vancouver doesn't need more market housing
Stephen Quinn interview with New West mayor Patrick Johnstone
Shawn Oaks: high-rises near Oak and 41st
Image of the day: "No Megatowers at Safeway! Yes to Affordable Housing!"
August 1: Christine Boyle fundraiser for the upcoming provincial election
The Historical Housing Prices Project
Image of the day: population growth by metro area
Immigration, labour shortages, and housing shortages
Office-to-residential conversions in Calgary
Making view cones less restrictive
Image of the day: areas of Toronto which are losing people
Low property taxes make it harder for younger people to own
Housing should be higher priority than design
Rupert and Renfrew Station Area Plan
Image of the day: new housing as investment
Vancouver housing targets and plan
Vancouver staff report on Transit-Oriented Development
Image of the day: "This town ain't big enough for the two of us"
First Vancouver multiplex gets permission to build
All the lights are flashing red, all the sirens are going off
Burnaby multiplexes: more permissive than Vancouver
Image of the day: 3D zoning map
Housing shortages across the rich world
Image of the day: poll on why housing is so expensive
Demographics and housing demand
Portland: construction costs and rents
Development charges in Ontario
Speaking notes for HUMA parliamentary committee
Image of the day: Texas vs. California
Another concrete strike appears on the way
Shrinkflation: Vancouver apartments are small because cost per square foot is high
Image of the day: downzoning in LA
Manville and Monkkonen on unwanted housing
Burlington cuts development charges on new housing
BC Conservatives on housing policy
Image of the day: renting vs. owning in the US
Calgary council approves infill housing policy
Vancouver missing housing completion targets
Image of the day: mismatch between housing and jobs in southern California
Limit on work hours for international students
Oh the Urbanity!: Edmonton is leading on housing reform
Federal funding for social housing will be redirected from Ontario to municipalities
Globe editorial: "The build-more ethos is (finally) gaining political ground"
Image of the day: high-rise opponents seeking shade
Single-family zoning: reserving land for the rich
Minnesota: 60-day permitting decisions
Kitsilano Missing Midrise Walking Tour
University Endowment Lands: multiplexes and apartments
Image of the day: central Toronto neighbourhoods losing population
Exasperation and impatience vs. fear and complacency
Vancouver staff report on provincial legislation
Image of the day: multiplex exclusions in the District of North Vancouver
Sydney: what if apartment buildings could be somewhat taller?
Ontario housing legislation: Bill 185
The overall federal housing plan
Image of the day: 2022 rezoning applications
Austin: building more housing, rents falling
Reducing the number of public hearings
Image of the day: change in Metro Vancouver households by income bracket, 2016-2021
BC: inclusionary zoning guidelines
Federal government ties $6B infrastructure funding to housing reforms
Tom Davidoff on "local democracy" resulting in housing scarcity
When Covid hit, housing scarcity spilled over
Population growth: from >1M to 350,000
All the lights are flashing red, all the sirens are going off
Image of the day: Coal Harbour Elementary School
Jake Anbinder on the 1970s shift to local control
What do city councillors do all day?
Calgary: delaying tactic fails
Image of the day: multiplex applications in Vancouver
Blueprint for More and Better Housing
In January, San Francisco approved six homes
UCSF study: homeless people in California are from California
Image of the day: Vancouver vs. Paris
Oh the Urbanity!: Density follows demand
West Point Grey Safeway proposal, 450 market rentals, 115 non-market
Housing Accelerator update, week 25
Image of the day: new apartment construction
Poilievre takes another swipe at Eby
Repost: What the cost bottleneck looks like
Housing Accelerator summary, week 24
Image of the day: housing permits in US cities
Ottawa matches funding for BC Builds
Housing Accelerator update, week 23
Image of the day: city of Vancouver vs. Metro
Texas: lots of supply is pushing down rents
BC Builds: middle-income public housing
Housing Accelerator update, week 22
Image of the day: vacancy rates in the GTA
Cape Breton University and the international student cap
$15B in new funding for social housing
Housing Accelerator update, week 21
Image of the day: vacancy rates in October 2023
Ontario colleges flooded the system
CityHallWatch on Reddit mobilization
Speaking notes for 2015 Main Street
Housing Accelerator update, week 20
Image of the day: land cost per square metre of floor space in Auckland
Marc Miller imposes province-wide caps on international student numbers
Speaking notes: Jericho Lands policy statement
2015 Main Street: a 25-storey rental building close to SkyTrain
Housing Accelerator update, week 19
Image of the day: housing starts by form
Why is housing so scarce and expensive?
We need to fix the problem regardless of who's to blame
Housing Accelerator update, week 18
Image of the day: impact if Vancouver and Victoria adopt BC's multiplex policy
Harmonizing elevator regulations
Why are Vancouver's property taxes so low?
Homeowners fear change to their neighbourhood, not falling prices
Housing Accelerator update, week 17
Image of the day: outmigration from BC