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Release: Revamped Bike to Work Week goes virtual, May 25-31st
HUB Cycling’s popular, bi-annual Bike to Work Week takes on a new name this Spring as Go By Bike Week presented by MEC. The event motivates...
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Podcast: COVID Reflections
It is safe to say that it’s been a wild few months. And now, after two months of strict social distancing here in Canada, many provinces are starting to...
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Book Review – What a City is For: Remaking the Politics of Displacement
Author: Matt Hern (MIT Press, 2017) Book Reviewers: William Dunn & Claire Adams Portland is a liveable, progressive, and hip city. It’s also...
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City Living During a Global Health Pandemic
Reading the headlines these days is a sure way to become panicked, scared and pessimistic. It feels like the world is ending, and maybe it is. What we can...
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Release: Call for Applications, GNW Trust
GNW Trust is offering up to $5,000 for winning proposals that will activate the Centre for Digital Media District. Applicants are responsible for...
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Release: HUB Cycling awards winners from second annual 20-in-20 Infrastructure Challenge
HUB Cycling awarded the top three winners of the 2019 20-in-20 Infrastructure Challenge at HUB Cycling’s annual bike awards on February 27. The panel of...
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Twelve Lessons from Housing First for Ending Homelessness
by Shannon Lambie and Naomi Wittes Reichstein On wrapping the five-year, $110-million At Home/Chez Soi landmark pilot project, the Mental Health...
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Vancouver’s Rents and Incomes: A Critical Analysis
Our housing crisis is fundamentally a rental crisis. As such, it’s important to keep the numbers straight so that we can better focus our energy and...
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Understanding Affordability: A Partial Picture
Click here to enlarge the graph. Fair and affordable housing is a basic right for all New Yorkers and all Americans. Nydia Velazquez Nydia Velazquez’s...
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Release: Save Ron Thom’s 1962 Forrest House in West Vancouver Petition
Please sign this petition to save the famous Canadian architect Ron Thom’s 1962 Forrest House in West Vancouver which is slated for Demolition on...
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Housing Central 2019: Creating A Culture of Belonging and Inclusion
This year’s Housing Central Conference may have been the most comprehensive, versatile and multifaceted to date. From Sunday, Nov 17. to Tuesday...
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Metro Vancouver needs a more Multilingual Translink
Accessibility is a key priority of any public transit system. While much-needed efforts are underway in making bus stops and SkyTrain stations more...
By Max Kittner