LOCAL
• Vancouver Rent Bank provides short-term help to tenants facing eviction or loss of utilities [Georgia Straight]
• The Sanctuary City Movement: Challenges and Possibilities | PUBLIC TALK [The Mainlander]
• Cities of Renters [The Tyee]
• Metro Vancouver gathers experts to talk trash [Vancouver Sun]
• High stakes in Metro Vancouver garbage business [Vancouver Sun]
CANADA
• Toronto to consider real-time updates for motorists on infrastructure safety [Globe and Mail]
INTERNATIONAL
• The Russia left behind [New York Times]
• The San Francisco Exodus [The Atlantic Cities]
• Nine in 10 European city dwellers breathe bad air [The New Scientist]
• Bulgaria’s Air Is Dirtiest in Europe, Study Finds, Followed by Poland [New York Times]
• why the “sit-able city” is the next big idea [My Urbanist]
• Concrete risks [Los Angeles Times]
• Mixed results for de Blasio’s housing mandate, experts say [Crain’s New York Business]