Housing

Vancouver’s Rents and Incomes: A Critical Analysis

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Our housing crisis is fundamentally a rental crisis. As such, it’s important to keep the numbers straight so that we can better focus... Read More

Understanding Affordability: A Partial Picture

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Click here to enlarge the graph. Fair and affordable housing is a basic right for all New Yorkers and all Americans. Nydia Velazquez... Read More

Vancouver’s Housing Crisis: A Collaborative Opportunity for Planners and Architects

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The time is now. Architects and landscape architects need to be active participants in urban planning and land-use decision-making... Read More

Titanic Lack of Focus May Sink Vancouver’s Chance to Make Housing Affordable

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Last week Vancouver’s city council approved a city-wide planning process. If you’d followed my advocacy for a city-wide plan in The... Read More

On Walking and the Future of Cities: An Evening with Jeff Speck

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On a balmy Tuesday night I found myself walking towards Lost Lagoon along Alberni Street. I parked my car at a nearby parking garage... Read More

What Vancouver Housing Needs Is Some Public Process Sorcery

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The recent publication of former Vancouver head planner Larry Beasley’s new book Vancouverism provides an opportunity for us to both... Read More

Video Vancouver: “Places” by Shane Koyczan

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By Shane Koyczan: I was lucky. I found community in Vancouver early on, and when I found myself struggling to make ends meet I had... Read More

Uh oh. I’m a Planner and Planning Makes Housing More Expensive

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Thank Andy Yan for throwing yet another rock into the placid pond of our taken for granted assumptions. As someone who advocates... Read More