Sitemap - 2025 - Vancouver Needs More Housing

Were ACCs a mistake?

Coquitlam temporarily reduces density bonus charges by 15%

Image of the day: construction costs vs. home prices

Toronto rejects six-plexes

BC reducing borrowing costs for development charges

Housing Happy Hour

Presentation to MVRD finance committee

Image of the day: housing permits in Moncton

Stuck, by Yoni Appelbaum

Metro Vancouver DCC review

Repost: "A small tail wagging a very big dog"

Image of the day: family assistance to first-time homebuyers in the UK

A memorial for Toronto city councillor Jaye Robinson

BC Supreme Court: Langley Township's CAC policy is invalid

San Jose rejects 135 apartments

Market rents dropping in the GTA

Image of the day: land readjustment in Japan

Speaking notes for 2158 West 1st Avenue

Jacob Anbinder: origins of anti-growth ideology in Democratic cities

Safeway megatowers passes rezoning

Repost: Municipal incentives are backwards

Image of the day: doubling up

Marc Dunkelman, Why Nothing Works

Replacing revenue from development charges

Housing Happy Hour

Repost: Ottawa to Metro Van: don't kill the golden goose

Image of the day: inventory changes vs. price changes in US cities

Legislative supremacy in Canada

We need to increase housing starts per capita

Subsidiarity

Special advisor's report for West Vancouver

Image of the day: development charges, property transfer tax, and GST

Proactive upzoning of "priority growth areas" in Edmonton

Texas state legislature passes single-stair bill SB2835

Josh White: one-year interview

Special advisor's report for Oak Bay

Image of the day: interactive view of Senakw

Drywall

Repost: Yes, home prices are too high

CITR interview with Arman and Akhil

Video of the day: the Happy Megatowers Polka

Speaking notes: 1780 East Broadway

Moffatt: Advice for Mark Carney

Post-election Housing Happy Hour

Recap

Don Davies' opposition to rental housing

Pre-election Housing Happy Hour

Vancouver by-election: 8 am to 8 pm

Taking a break

Repost: The housing ladder

Renter density map

CMHC design catalogue

"Why is Vancouver so insanely expensive?"

Image of the day: job density in Metro Vancouver

Nolan Gray in Vancouver

Southwynd Place redevelopment

NEW LOCATION for tonight's Housing Happy Hour

Lucy Maloney on enforcing renter protections

1400 apartments proposed for Tsawwassen Town Centre Mall facing intense opposition

Image of the day: Why do North American construction costs increase with density?

A modular apartment building in Denver

The need to reduce costs

Housing Happy Hour

Repost: Blueprint for More and Better Housing

Proposal to update Broadway Plan zoning

BC Budget 2025

Trump's trade war

"A small tail wagging a very big dog"

Image of the day: a poll in DC

2BR and 3BR apartments need cross-subsidy

Permitting in San Francisco

Rental housing on an empty lot in West Point Grey

Vancouver staff report on single-stair buildings up to six storeys

Image of the day: a 12-unit apartment building in Minneapolis

Ottawa to Metro Van: don't kill the golden goose

The Auckland debate continues

New housing in Downtown South kept a lid on rents in the West End

Image of the day: what a housing shortage looks like

Ravi Kahlon appoints special advisors in West Vancouver and Oak Bay

"Overbuilding everywhere!"

Housing Happy Hour

Granville Street Plan

Image of the day: a five-storey condo building

TEAM and COPE announce their candidates

Rental markets are cooling

Crime, policing, and public safety

A short intro

Video: view from Senakw

Municipal byelection: Saturday April 5

Why does Ontario tax new housing so heavily?

When new housing is expensive, older housing is expensive

The infrastructure bill for sprawl is much higher than for apartments

Image of the day: 2023-2024 housing shortfall by province

Liberal leadership race: Carney vs. Freeland

Toronto neighbourhood opposed to four-plex

Helen Lui on not-for-profit development

Bonsai Vancouver

Image of the day: time spent at home is way up

Timed transfer networks

Broadway Plan review - media appearances

Post-Inauguration Housing Happy Hour

Some people like cities, some don't

Image of the day: ski village as walkable development

NYC: A huge housing boom in the 1920s

A six-storey rental at 4th and Balaclava

CMHC's 2024 rental market report

Sean Fraser not running again

Video: Mike Moffatt role-plays a Boomer

What's happening in 2025