Housing
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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...
By Brian Gould -
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...
By Brian Gould -
Video Vancouver: Isang Litrong Liwanag
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Video Vancouver: Manhattan shoebox apartment: a 78-square-foot mini studio
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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...
By Jackie Wong -
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...
By Jackie Wong -
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...
By Jackie Wong -
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...
By Jackie Wong -
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...
By Jackie Wong -
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...
By Brian Gould -
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...
By Erick Villagomez -
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...
By Erick Villagomez