
Review of Vancouver’s Rental Incentives published
Spoiler alert – don’t downzone!
Spoiler alert – don’t downzone!
Transactions, dollar volume and values decline.
We unearthed something quite telling.
The last 18 months or so would rate amongst the most challenging we’ve seen in almost two decades.
Motion would effectively downzone a number of properties, arbitrarily decreasing their value without consultation with affected landowners.
The Goodman Report has learned from a City of Vancouver planning department employee that a City councillor has filed a motion recommending cancellation of the City’s Secure Market Rental Housing Policy and the deforestation of approximately 10% of Stanley Park which is not being used.
The little City that could becomes the little City that won’t
Nature’s historic headwinds, which buffeted B.C.’s south coast in mid-December, were not the only blustery forces impacting our geographic area.
As Metro Vancouver residents gear up for municipal elections, the single most galvanizing issue all voters and politicians can relate to — yet seldom agree on — is housing, especially rental housing.