{"id":38537,"date":"2025-09-16T10:00:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T17:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/?p=38537"},"modified":"2025-09-16T10:13:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T17:13:51","slug":"ucs-70-a-brief-history-of-housing-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2025\/09\/16\/ucs-70-a-brief-history-of-housing-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"UCS #70: A Brief History of Housing Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/05\/UrbanCartoonSyndicate.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-36965\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/05\/UrbanCartoonSyndicate-600x72.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/05\/UrbanCartoonSyndicate-600x72.png 600w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/05\/UrbanCartoonSyndicate-300x36.png 300w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/05\/UrbanCartoonSyndicate-768x92.png 768w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/05\/UrbanCartoonSyndicate-940x113.png 940w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/05\/UrbanCartoonSyndicate.png 1250w\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"72\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>See our&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2024\/05\/20\/urban-cartoon-syndicate-introduction-and-call\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Launch and Introduction<\/a>&nbsp;about the launch of the \u00a9 Urban Cartoon Syndicate and the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cityhallwatch.wordpress.com\/2024\/05\/20\/launch-of-urban-cartoon-syndicate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announcement by CityHallWatch<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p><em>Related Readings:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>The Slow Emergency<\/strong><\/em> (Spacing Vancouver) &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2025\/07\/07\/the-slow-emergency\/\">https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2025\/07\/07\/the-slow-emergency\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><em><strong>The Slow Emergency, Part II: The Emergency Escalates<\/strong><\/em> (Spacing Vancouver) &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2025\/09\/11\/the-slow-emergency-part-ii-the-emergency-accelerates\/\">https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2025\/09\/11\/the-slow-emergency-part-ii-the-emergency-accelerates\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See our&nbsp;Launch and Introduction&nbsp;about the launch of the \u00a9 Urban Cartoon Syndicate and the&nbsp;announcement by CityHallWatch. *** Related Readings: The Slow Emergency (Spacing Vancouver) &#8211; https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2025\/07\/07\/the-slow-emergency\/ The Slow Emergency, Part II: The Emergency Escalates (Spacing Vancouver) &#8211; https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2025\/09\/11\/the-slow-emergency-part-ii-the-emergency-accelerates\/ &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8579,"featured_media":38538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24,6670],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-housing","category-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - 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