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 […]
No need to be frightened by higher densities in neighbourhoods
By: Gordon Harris Special to The Vancouver Sun A quiet neighbourhood: the phrase evokes leafy streets, tidy gardens and carefree children, quietly at play. But in the image painted on this page by Gordon Gibson, the quiet neighbourhood was further freighted by the presumption it could not also be a densely populated one. With respect, […]