Housing

Thoughts on a Manufactured Mayoral Debate

When I found out that CBC was opening their audience for Wednesday night’s mayoral debate between Robertson and Anton, I immediately slotted it into...

Homelessness Way Down – Homelessness Slightly Up

You might have noticed some rather contradictory information swirling about lately on the homelessness front of the municipal election. However, the...

Video Vancouver: Isang Litrong Liwanag

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...