Vancouver review of Broadway ‘pace of change’ is a litmus test for new City Council
One of the City of Vancouver’s most important rental districts has a vacancy rate of just 0.5% – a negative result of our citywide crisis of housing affordability.
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B.C.’s new leaders: Transformation or more of the same?
This fall, British Columbians saw leadership changes in both municipal and provincial governments. Making good on what they’ve said they’ll do will be intriguing to watch.
Calling Metro Vancouver civic leaders: Permit housing, not obstacles
Goodman Report In June this year, we described the headwinds challenging rental housing providers and builders as they try to deliver new rental housing. The scarcity of purpose-built rental in B.C. is well-known, resulting from decades of depressed construction and a shortage of policies incentivizing delivery. A short-lived break from the near 0% vacancy rate … Continued
Government intervention, market downturns
What we found: The factor that popped up in every market downturn was government intervention.
Marxism Won’t Solve Canada’s Rental Housing Crisis – Despite What Ottawa Thinks
Solving Canada’s housing crisis shouldn’t require more than a single lesson in economics. When prices are high, a free market always responds and supplies more. Yet amidst Canada’s severe problems of housing affordability, this foolproof mechanism is continually...
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Calling Metro Vancouver civic leaders: Permit housing, not obstacles
Goodman Report In June this year, we described the headwinds challenging rental housing providers and builders as they try to deliver new rental housing. The scarcity of purpose-built rental in B.C. is well-known, resulting from decades of depressed construction and a shortage of policies incentivizing delivery. A short-lived break from the near 0% vacancy rate … Continued
Government intervention, market downturns
What we found: The factor that popped up in every market downturn was government intervention.
Trudeau’s false “us versus them”
After years of run-up, the City of Vancouver’s Secured Rental Policy is finally making its way to a City Council public hearing for a vote.
Keeping rents stable: an admirable goal – too bad we’re going about it wrong
By Andrey Pavlov, Ph.D., Goodman Report