Half of crashes where drivers hit pedestrians in #vancouver were at an intersection with at least one residential street or on a residential street itself. #visionzero #dataviz #LocalNews
vancouversun.com/news/local-new…

🔔'Currently 20% of Canadian households cannot afford monthly housing costs over $1,050.'

📄Great to see HART data used in School of Cities new brief here: schoolofcities.utoronto.ca/wp-content/upl…

Read their Housing Supply Mix Strategy briefs here: schoolofcities.utoronto.ca/housing-supply…

Don't miss your chance to save your spot at our next Writer's Studio Reading Series on Apr 16. SFU Creative Writing at.sfu.ca/zOXEFd

We’re pleased to see increases to housing subsidies for vulnerable seniors in BC, however a subsidy increase to $310/month does not serve the 85% of BC seniors who can only afford up to $1,000 per month. One-bedrooms in BC are renting for $2100+, and so a significant gap remains.

If my household were looking to enter homeownership, these are the options we have in Calgary: 37 properties, 27 of which are apartments built between 1960 and 1980.
cbc.ca/news/canada/wh…

Congratulations to our #sfuurb alumnus and former department manager Terri Evans!
SFU Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences

1/2 'In Vancouver, only 15% of dwellings are considered 'single-detached houses,'' says census.
Andy Yan says Vancouver has one of the lowest percentages of single-detached homes in Metro.
Via Michael Kluckner's new book, Surviving Vancouver.
#vanpoli
midtownpress.ca/authors/michae…

2/2 Most Vancouver houses provide 'hidden density.'
That is because most 'are divided into multiple units, rooming houses, shared collective housing and secondary suites.'
Andy Yan says we need to avoid a 'blind, dogma-driven assault on an imagined zoning type.'
#Vanre #vanpoli

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau testifies at foreign interference commission #cdnpoli (odd that CPAC isn't airing so only on foreigninterferencecommission.ca )

#PlaceDetective 🔎: In downtown Vancouver, the Del Mar Hotel still bears the marks of an epic fight against gentrification.

The case of the building that couldn’t be bought. Jen St. Denis reports.

thetyee.ca/Culture/2024/0…

#vanre #cdnpoli CRA assessed $2.7 billion. Focus on: income not support lifestyle; Flipping; Unreported capital gains & on property sold by non-resident; Worldwide income; GST/HST claims; Not classifying as developer; improper reporting principal residence investmentexecutive.com/news/industry-…

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While sipping my morning brew...

'people drinking alcohol would just get drunk and sing and be jolly, whereas the people drinking coffee remained sober and plotted against the government'

theguardian.com/wellness/2024/…

Council voting Wednesday to Offload 100% of Local “Improvement” Costs Including Laneways on Residents
Without public consultation Vancouver will now be charging residents 100% of costs for local “improvements” including paving laneways & green offsets. sandyjamesplanner.wordpress.com/2024/04/09/thi…

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Fantastic analysis by Jacob Loo Dawang 🔰 but should we be surprised? TOD is tough in prairie cities where developable land is abundant + our typical model does a weak job of creating good places around transit stations. Transit alone is not enough to drive development in YEG

This Wednesday Vancouver Public Library!

Vancouver group reviving rare Chinese 'unicorn' dance hosting free performance, workshop

vancouverisawesome.com/events-and-ent… via @viawesome

NEW - Amid complaints from seniors that the Shelter Aid for Elderly Renters (SAFER) program hadn’t kept up w rising rents, Housing Minister Ravi Kahlon announced that seniors in the SAFER program will get a one time top up of $430 & an additional $110/month to help w rent #bcpoli