Reading Time: 4 minutes Government land-use regulations a principal source of this inequality
Tag: BC real estate
Cleaning up Vancouver’s “rat’s nest of rot”
Reading Time: 3 minutes Single-family houses in the city are now deposit boxes. How did we get here and how can we restore balance?
The pipeline to the future doesn’t carry the jobs of the past
Reading Time: 3 minutes The ruckus over the Kinder Morgan project is a good reminder that the economic conditions we once enjoyed are on the way out
B.C. wants more rental units; will municipalities follow through?
Reading Time: 3 minutes New zoning powers for local governments will only meaningfully affect rental vacancy rates if cities streamline approval processes
When property prices are a crime
Reading Time: 3 minutes The B.C. government balked at applying the foreign buyer tax to pre-sale contracts, so property flipping won’t slow down and it certainly won’t stop
How B.C. can escape its painful housing trap
Reading Time: 3 minutes Instead of targeting affordable housing, B.C. government should be targeting housing affordability
Civic renewal that drains the soul – and people – from communities
Reading Time: 4 minutes When investor neighbourhoods replace residential ones, civic sustainability is the big loser
The prohibitive cost of living in Metro Vancouver
Reading Time: 3 minutes The extraordinary run-up in real estate prices like the one experienced in the Lower Mainland raises the odds of a painful market correction
How an NDP-Green government can free up B.C.’s housing supply
Reading Time: 3 minutes If housing affordability for average British Columbians is the goal, local and provincial governments should reduce barriers to development
Lower Mainland municipalities create roadblocks to new housing
Reading Time: 3 minutes Homebuilders were asked how long they wait for permit approvals, how much it costs, how often rezoning is required and the scope of local opposition