Sitemap - 2025 - Vancouver Needs More Housing
West Van pauses demolition of mid-century gas station
Cuff: Dysfunctional governance in Sechelt
Mario Polèse on the natural size of urban centres
Image of the day: Ontario's cumulative housing deficit
Gregor Robertson: the federal government wants to reduce total fees
Repost: Appeal to self-interest rather than altruism
CMHC's 2025 market rental report
Samuel Hughes on the Great Downzoning
Video of the day: Vancouver vs. Montreal
Vancouver passes DCL cut, single exterior stair
ABC rejects Social Housing Initiative
Vancouver proposes single exterior exit stair
Vancouver proposes temporary 20% cut to DCLs
Video of the day: Vancouver vs. Edmonton
Allowing social housing: will caution win out?
A quick intro to Vancouver municipal politics
Video of the day: shrinkflation
M216: Professional Reliance Act
Burnaby public hearing on multiplex changes
Video of the day: why is the Vancouver Aquatic Centre falling apart?
Toronto: three-storey, 11-unit building near subway rejected
What’s more important, better healthcare or minimizing change?
OneCity mayoral nomination race: William Azaroff
Video of the day: greed vs. scarcity
OneCity nomination - Russil Wvong
Image of the day: 1923 Parker Street
Globe and Mail on family-size flats
Shrinkflation: Vancouver apartments are small because cost per square foot is high
Below-market housing is the priority in the Broadway corridor
Cutting property taxes while Vancouver's community centres are falling apart
Image of the day: transit travel time vs. drive time to downtown
Australia: Michael Koziol on Sydney's housing shortage
Why is housing in Vancouver so scarce and expensive?
How did the city of Vancouver end up with 345 planning documents?
Image of the day: regional shifts in US population
Griffintown: Why does everyone hate this Montreal neighbourhood?
Vancouver School Board decision to lease "surplus" land at Fleming Elementary
The city of Vancouver plans to get into market rental development
Burnaby reduces by-right multiplex height from four storeys to three
Image of the day: development fees for a new high-rise apartment
Not Just Bikes: suburbs that don't suck
When there's so many unsold condos, how can there be a housing shortage?
Image of the day: deadweight loss
Vancouver releases draft Official Development Plan
Aurora, ON: a packed town hall to oppose four additional houses
Repost: Manville and Monkkonen on unwanted housing
Image of the day: fire safety in modern multifamily buildings
2012 Mayor’s Task Force on Affordable Housing
Tsawwassen: what's more important, better healthcare or minimizing change?
Image of the day: single-stair flats
Can the BC government solve the housing crisis?
How housing scarcity causes North Shore traffic congestion
BC's Human Rights Code and housing
Repost: Replacing revenue from development charges
Image of the day: NIMBYism in Rhode Island
Municipal land-use restrictions and homelessness
Speaking notes: Broadway Plan pre-zoning
Richard Stewart: The Aspiring Homeowner's Burden
Image of the day: declining rents
Co-ops are worthwhile, but not a panacea
Video: CBC debate over Jericho Lands
C. D. Howe conference on housing
Image of the day: the real housing monster
Video: the progressive YIMBY/NIMBY debate in California
Comments on Build Canada Homes
Image of the day: ownership costs vs. income, 1987 to 2025
Clearance rules for high-voltage power lines
Michael Hall: Here are six North Shore traffic fixes we can implement now
Brendan Whitsitt: Is the Housing Crisis Our Fault?
Heavy losses for individual investors in pre-construction condos
Vancouver: Population change by neighbourhood, 2016-2021
Repost: Mario Polese on housing in Montreal
Differences in cost between Paris and Toronto
Reduced viability in the Broadway corridor
Image of the day: BC housing starts per capita, 1955-2024
Video: How Vancouver and Toronto taxed their way into the housing crisis
Presentation on the Metro Vancouver Alliance and co-op housing
Timothy Huyer: the legal duty to consult with First Nations
Image of the day: people's ideas
Calgary: modular housing by ATCO
Grandview-Woodland Community Plan: Let's put 10-storey apartments next to chicken-processing plants
Image of the day: new housing frees up old housing
San Francisco: Goldilocks in the Mission
Submission to federal pre-budget consultations
Dueling recommendations for Gregor Robertson
Comments on July 10 presentation to MVRD finance committee
Image of the day: preconstruction sales evaporating
Demand-side measures are more popular than supply-side
Speaking notes for multiplex streamlining
Detailed proposal to update Broadway Plan zoning
Image of the day: city of Vancouver falling behind the rest of Metro Van
Moffatt: don't limit GST rebate to first-time homebuyers
Examples of CEQA weaponization
Coquitlam temporarily reduces density bonus charges by 15%
Image of the day: construction costs vs. home prices
BC reducing borrowing costs for development charges
Presentation to MVRD finance committee
Image of the day: housing permits in Moncton
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
Marc Dunkelman, Why Nothing Works
Replacing revenue from development charges
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
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
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
Don Davies' opposition to rental housing
Pre-election Housing Happy Hour
Vancouver by-election: 8 am to 8 pm
"Why is Vancouver so insanely expensive?"
Image of the day: job density in Metro Vancouver
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
Repost: Blueprint for More and Better Housing
Proposal to update Broadway Plan zoning
"A small tail wagging a very big dog"
Image of the day: a poll in DC
2BR and 3BR apartments need cross-subsidy
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
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
Image of the day: a five-storey condo building
TEAM and COPE announce their candidates
Crime, policing, and public safety
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
Image of the day: time spent at home is way up
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