LOCAL
• Unit vacancies anger city, advocates as homelessness increases in Vancouver [Globe and Mail]
• Vancouver loses five a day, but Toronto hugs its trees [Globe and Mail]
• Jordan Bateman’s Position: Satisfaction with the Second Rate [Price Tags]
• The New Point Grey Road – 20: Final Pieces [Price Tags]
• Main Street-Science World’s new east stationhouse opens today [The Buzzer Blog]
• New supportive-housing site set to open on Burrard Street in Vancouver [Georgia Straight]
• Bob Rennie speaks about housing affordability, the wealth of seniors, immigration, and David Suzuki [Georgia Straight]
• Accessible City Design: Request-to-Cross Buttons [South Fraser Blog]
• What’s Your Version of Vancouver as ‘Greenest City’? [The Tyee]
• Bob Rennie at Urban Development Institute addresses future of Vancouver housing market [Vancouver Observer]
CASCADIA
• Residents urge Victoria council to halt downtown pub expansion [Victoria Times Colonist]
• Despite being at ‘peak farm,’ land is getting less protection [Globe and Mail]
• Lawsuit filed against city for streetcar tracks deemed ‘unsafe for bicyclists’ [Portland Bike Blog]
• Tribune finds support for limiting car use by microapartment dwellers [Bike Portland]
• More Construction = Lower Prices [Seattle Transit Blog]
CANADA
• The Upper, Upper, Upper West Side [The New Yorker]
INTERNATIONAL
• A Safety Plan With Swedish Logic and City Smarts [New York Times]
• Stop forcing people to wear bike helmets [Vox]
• A Crosswalk Too Far: The Hunt for America’s Least Crossable Street [Streetsblog USA]
• New Urbanism’s impact on mid-sized and smaller cities [Better! Cities & Towns]