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The Vancouver housing crisis and two different ways of addressing it


Housing Myth: The Housing Crisis is a supply/demand issue caused ...

Surprise! In Vancouver, we don't actually have a lack of housing. Luxury houses abound, and there actually is no lack of supply of market rate ...

Steve Lafleur: Canada has two housing crises. One requires more ...

We've all heard it before: building more condos isn't going to solve Canada's housing crisis—we need governments to provide affordable housing ...

Aging in Uncertainty - United Way British Columbia

Moving forward, there is an urgent need for multigovernmental and intersectoral collaboration to address the housing affordability crisis in BC.

The Economics and Politics of Canada's Housing Supply Issue

Given the size of the housing problem, the best policy medicine is to restore long-term balance in headline market indicators. This means ...

Addressing Canada's student housing crisis - Real Estate Magazine

Canada's housing crisis is multifaceted and impacts all Canadians as well as international students. By adopting supportive policies, we can ...

Fiera Real Estate WhitePaper Canada's housing crisis

This is an unusual way to address a basic necessity.12. Tackling ... Canada is experiencing a housing shortage. When comparing Canada to ...

Getting Serious About Affordable Housing

Addressing affordability in a meaningful way requires dusting off tools to manage and regulate the housing market in the interests of regular people. Canada ...

BC's tipping point - CPA BC

Affordable housing is getting further out of reach for many British Columbians, and there are already signs that both current and prospective ...

Canada considers foreign student cap over housing crisis - BBC

But experts say limiting new arrivals will do little to address the problem. Just how bad is Canada's housing market? For many in Canada, the ...

How can we solve Metro Vancouver's housing crisis?

To keep prices down on new developments, the report recommends one of two paths: require that one-third to half of all units in a market ...

Addressing Affordable Housing - Family & Community Services

Different forms of housing assistance can address their need, depending on their life stage and market conditions in their local area. For example, some ...

We're all to blame for Canada's brutal housing market

My suggestion to address the issue of investors owning a large share of housing in Canada is to bring in legislation that limits individual ...

2024Unpacking the Affordable Housing Crisis | MRU

22 There's growing pressure to tax windfall gains, potentially through property surcharges or capital gains on flipped houses, to address ...

Vancouver designer hopes to tackle housing crisis with sought-after ...

A Vancouver designer is making waves in the architectural world with an outdoor modular building created to address the city's unrelenting ...

Subsidized Housing | BC Housing

There are two ways that you can apply to buildings and the Housing Listings will let you know for each building what the application process is. You will need ...

Immigration is making Canada's housing more expensive ... - CBC

Immigration is making Canada's housing more expensive. The government was warned 2 years ago · 'In Canada, population growth has exceeded the ...

The Housing Crisis and International Students - Academica Forum

There is no single silver bullet that will resolve the student housing crisis in Canada overnight, but finding long-term solutions will ...

BC's Housing Supply Crisis: Analyzing the Gaps and Proposals for ...

BC faces a severe housing supply crisis, with gaps in new housing and skilled labor shortages. This article explores the challenges and ...

Vancouver's Housing Affordability Crisis: Causes, Consequences ...

(And can be addressed; see Section 4.) How do we show this? The easiest way to do this is to demonstrate that most of the other alleged culprits ...

Building equity: lessons for affordable housing in BC - Policy Note

Scale up the non-profit housing sector: Like BC, the federal government can support the non-market housing sector to acquire existing for-profit ...