Housing

Jane’s Walk Special: Get with the plan (Marpole version)!

[Editor’s Note: We are happy to present the first of a three InDepth Features covering a trio of special Jane’s Walk neighbourhood tours...

A Vancouver “Extra” Special in Strathcona

Since it’s first appearance in 1965, the Vancouver Special has become a ubiquitous fixture of Vancouver’s urban landscape. With their flat...

Vancouver and Housing Affordability

With the Vancouver Mayoral Election heating up, one of the city’s major campaign issues has become affordable housing. Vision Vancouver is...

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...