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Vancouver Needs More Housing

Russil Wvong

Vancouver's biggest challenge is that housing is so scarce and expensive, making us poorer.

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Image of the day: Growth pays for non-growth

Stephen Rouse on LinkedIn, April 2026:

Growth doesn’t pay for growth in Metro Vancouver. It pays for everything.

Development charges on new housing far exceed the initial infrastructure costs to set them up. Metro Van’s own study sh...

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15 ideas to reduce transit costs and build more

The Institute for Progress is a pro-growth US think-tank. Last week they released a Transit Abundance Playbook, a set of 15 ideas in the form of short essays, written by people like Alon Levy and Brian Potter.

Of course the challenges face...

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Toronto: a four-storey building with sixteen 2BR apartments

Sean Galbraith on BlueSky, last month:

Today at the Committee of Adjustment I was very happy to get approval for this great 4 storey, 16 unit apartment building on Gerrard near Norwood. Absolutely smooth sailing. All 2 bedrooms and has 1...

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"Absurd pro-developer propaganda"

Via Alex Armlovich.

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Canada-BC agreement to provide infrastructure funding and reduce development charges

Globe and Mail

In Metro Vancouver and the GTA, there’s two major barriers to new housing:

  • The approval bottleneck. Getting approval to build new housing is slow and difficult, and delays increase the cost of new housing.

  • The cost...

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