Sitemap - 2026 - Vancouver Needs More Housing

Image of the day: asking rents down 20% from peak in Metro Vancouver

Ken Sim retreats on multiplexes, overturns ban on gas heating

Competing views on growth and homelessness

Draft Villages Plan

Six-storey rental buildings aren't a gold mine

Video of the day: "Are we kind of being pricks?"

Vacancy chains in Honolulu

Why is "non-residential investment" important?

Updates to Residential Rental Districts

Image of the day: New Zealand economists on land-use restrictions and housing affordability

How to reduce costs

Transport funding and decision-making in the UK vs. Europe

Post-nomination Housing Happy Hour

OneCity nomination results

Speaking notes for 888 Cambie

Image of the day: allowing more density where demand is higher

Letter to OneCity members

Speaking notes for C-2A zoning

Financing Growth: adjustments to Vancouver's up-front taxes

How to vote

Image of the day: pent-up demand for rental housing

Economic impact of the collapse in housing sales in the GTA: 46,000 employment years and counting

A shrinking pie

Solidarity and sacrifice

Further streamlining for six-storey rental buildings on commercial streets

Video of the day: lineup for a rental at UC Santa Cruz

Abacus poll on reducing costs in Ontario

On homelessness

Meet the Candidates event

A marathon, not a sprint

Image of the day: expensive housing means fewer children

Spot rezonings consistent with the overall Official Development Plan no longer require a public hearing

Metro Vancouver staff report on rolling back DCC increases

Introductory email to all OneCity members

Deadwood regulations

Video of the day: Housing debate at UBC Robson Square

Federal funding for municipal infrastructure

Repost: Replacing revenue from development charges

Who pays development charges?

Thank you!

Housing shortages in big cities are bad for Canada's productivity growth

Ontario and federal government reach agreement to cut development charges

"A natural short position on housing"

Building consensus

Repost: Alain Bertaud on Vancouver

Image of the day: change in population density, 2001-2021

Ontario waives HST on new housing for one year

Repost: Vancouver approves single exterior exit stair

Meet Russil: Sunday March 29, 11 am

Misery and the housing shortage

Image of the day: household spending in Berlin around 1800

Does the city of Vancouver really aim to take 70-80% of land lift?

Toronto: "Maybe the city's full"

Repost: Mario Polèse on housing in Montreal

Frances Bula joins the OneCity nomination race

If it's greed, what's the story in Edmonton?

Hastings and Clark: ABC sends more than 900 apartments back to staff

Housing Happy Hour

Speaking notes for Official Development Plan

Image of the day: change in home prices since 2022, by province

Rezoning for Olympic Village elementary school approved

Speaking notes for 10th and Yew

"Prohibiting new housing is a prized luxury amenity"

Vancouver's Official Development Plan referred to public hearing

Image of the day: rents vs. permits in US metro areas

Presentation for the Metro Vancouver Alliance

Opposition to a high-rise hotel in the West End

Underwater

"Low density buildings next to tall towers is the most concrete indicator of a housing crisis"

Video of the day: I'm running for a OneCity council nomination

Victoria OCP update: allow four-storey infill

Kits Point: 1000 Cypress St. vs. Senakw

William Azaroff puts OneCity's cards on the table

The five whys

How to vote in the OneCity council nomination race: join by April 10

William Azaroff wins the OneCity mayoral nomination

Every approval is a miniature political campaign

Housing Happy Hour

Auditor-general's report: delivery of in-kind Community Amenity Contributions

Image of the day: the increased cost of homeownership in US metro areas

Metro Vancouver to consider rolling back 2026 DCC increases

Houston: A gentle-density reform with an opt-out

Ken Sim's 3-3-3-1 targets

Leger: support for four- and six-storey buildings in the city of Vancouver

Image of the day: Eightplex permits in Edmonton

Housing shortages, long commutes, and car crashes

Senate committee report on Canada's housing affordability crisis

Densification helps first-time homebuyers without hurting long-time homeowners

National unity and the housing shortage

Video of the day: Uytae Lee on the high cost of elevators

Middle-class flats in Europe

Scarborough: variances for six-storey building rejected

Speaking notes: 320 West 2nd

Build Canada event on Wednesday

Six-storey wood-frame buildings

William Azaroff: Make daycares legal by right

Anchoring, public transit, and development

Housing Happy Hour

Last call to join OneCity for the mayoral nomination

Image of the day: new housing puts the most downward pressure on older rentals

Infill housing in Edmonton

California: moving playground equipment does not require formal environmental review

How to vote in OneCity's mayoral nomination race: join by January 12

What's happening in 2026

Image of the day: rent growth vs. inverted vacancy rate in Australia