Who says, “Vancouver has run out of developable land?”
Canada’s most livable city is perfectly able to make room for newcomers Even amid the flurry of headlines about Vancouver’s prohibitive housing prices , it would be fantastically incorrect to claim there is no room left in Canada’s most livable city. Yet, that’s just what Grant E. Moore, the former Manager of Planning for the […]
Let’s Get Serious about Supply and Demand
The single-family housing shortage is a problem of physics, not politics In light of the proven popularity of Stradivarius violins, it is an outrage – an OUTRAGE! – that the government allows mass production and/or import of high-quality alternatives to fill market demand. I hope we all can agree that sentence is ludicrous. Antonio Stradivari […]
Welcoming a million people to Metro Vancouver?
The recent unanimous vote by the Mayor’s Council to fund the first phase of their ambitious and essential Vision Plan for the region’s transit and transportation system reminds us yet again that we are living in a dynamic place that welcomes 35,000 new people every year. It also reminds us that we need to keep […]
Housing Boomers
For his 2015 book The Stackable Boomer, David Allison asked me to look at how we can make suburban baby boomers feel at home in a more urban mid- or high-rise dwelling. As a boomer, one of nearly 10 million Canadians born between 1946 and 1965, I offered my perspective by saying that the world […]