Housing

Video Vancouver: Manhattan shoebox apartment: a 78-square-foot mini studio

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Viaducts: Past, Present and Future – Part 3

This is the third and final part of a series – in tandem with In Focus photo essays – looking at the past, present and future of the Georgia...

The Costs of Unaffordability – Part 5: Epilogue

Locally, the public is constantly bombarded by politicians and municipal officials who state that they are doing everything within their means to tackle...

The Costs of Unaffordability – Part 4: Affordability in Vancouver

So far in this series, I’ve discussed affordability and its relationship to population diversity as well as the complex interaction between the...

The Costs of Unaffordability – Part 3: Affordability and Environment

One of Vancouver’s greatest attributes is the environment in which it sits. The beauty and splendour of the mountains and ocean that are so intricately...

The Costs of Unaffordability – Part 2: Affordability and Diversity

Diversity plays an important role in most, if not all, complex systems. Accordingly, it is a term used in a broad spectrum of professions and areas of...

The Costs of Unaffordability – Introduction

The past few months have seen increasing concerns of recession and economic turmoil. With an American economy teetering on the edge of a dark precipice...