LOCAL
• Vancouver targets housing speculation [Globe and Mail]
• Vancouver’s new housing agency doesn’t go “nearly far enough”, COPE says [Georgia Straight]
• Joyce Murray: CP Rail should cancel evictions of community gardeners in Arbutus corridor [Georgia Straight]
• Locus of Resistance: a commentary on the forces of gentrification in Vancouver’s DTES [The Mainlander]
• 535 Homer Street [Changing Vancouver]
• Waiting on Compass Card [South of the Fraser Blog]
• Old Chinatown buildings to get city’s help [Vancouver Sun]
CASCADIA
• Internal Audit Slammed BC Housing Deal in Victoria [The Tyee]
• Backyard homes are almost as car-lite as apartments on transit lines, study finds [Bike Portland]
• The overlooked barrier to biking: me and my fellow klutzes [Bike Portland]
• Seattle parks: What’s with a mid-summer vote on a long-term change? [Crosscut]
• Property vs. Place [Blooming Rock]
INTERNATIONAL
• Would You Ride a Bicycle Across Europe’s 2nd Longest Bridge? [City Lab]
• How Cities And Businesses Are Collaborating To Take On Climate Change [Fast Co.Exist]
• It’s not just hipsters on bikes — cycling is most popular for poor people [Vox]
• New urbanism isn’t just for liberals — conservatives should embrace it too [The Week]