By Jackie Wong
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Generation Rent: with few market solutions, community makes housing affordable
[Editor’s note: Beautiful, eclectic, iconic, Pacific harbour towns: the words describe both Vancouver and San Francisco. Yet the two cities have...
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Generation Rent: Urban Facelifts Serve the Well-Heeled
[Editor’s note: Beautiful, eclectic, iconic, Pacific harbour towns: the words describe both Vancouver and San Francisco. Yet the two cities have...
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Generation Rent: San Francisco’s Citizen Tenants
[Editor’s note: Beautiful, eclectic, iconic, Pacific harbour towns: the words describe both Vancouver and San Francisco. Yet the two cities have...
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Generation Rent: Tyee call for renter story submissions – deadline extended to Monday, Nov. 4
Are you a renter in Metro Vancouver? The Tyee wants to publish your stories. We’re looking for first-person accounts of what it’s like to live...
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Cities of Renters: While Vancouver worships homeowners, San Francisco tenants are first-class citizens. First in a series.
Click to see full Infographic: Cities of Renters, Vancouver vs. San Francisco By Jackie Wong, Tyee Solutions Society [Editor’s note: Beautiful...
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Re:post -Landlords and Tenants Agree: Market Can’t Fix Itself
[Editor’s note: More than a third of Metro Vancouver’s households are renters. And urban planners say the region needs some 6,000 new rental...
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Re:post – Inside BC’s Secretive Landlord-Tenant Dispute Process
[Editor’s note: Half of Metro Vancouver’s households are renters. Private property owners provide most of the apartments they live in. If...
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Re:post – Landlords See a High Price to Cheap Rent
[Editor’s Note: As many as half the households in the city of Vancouver, and thousands more across Metro, rent rather than own their...
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Re:post – Thrown Out: Fight Grinds on Against ‘Renovictions’
[Editor’s Note: Vancouver revels in its reputation as North America’s most ‘livable’ city. Yet for as many as half of Vancouver’s...
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Re:post – No Room to Rent in the Livable City
[Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of cross-posts with The Tyee looking at “renovictions” in Vancouver. Survey after poll...
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Critical Mass 20th anniversary book – call for submissions
When writer and community organizer Chris Carlsson proposed that the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition (SFBC) start a group ride home together on the last...