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September 19, 2016

B.C.'s $500-million housing affordability plan to create new rental units: Clark

Rob Shaw, Cheryl Chan | Vancouver Sun VICTORIA — Premier Christy Clark says B.C. will use half a billion dollars in profits from the real estate sector to make the largest investment in new rental units in the province’s history. Clark said 2,900 new rental units ...

September 19, 2016

No condo too small after Victoria changes rules

Bill Cleverley / Times Colonist As Victoria moves to allow more micro apartment units, public spaces have to become living spaces, and peoples’ attitudes toward vagrancy have to change, say some city councillors. “I basically think we have to turn the page on th...

September 13, 2016

LandlordBC works to support rental ‘crisis’ during unprecedented low vacancy rate

Vancouver, BC, September 13: LandlordBC, the professional association representing owners and managers of rental housing in BC, condemns the recent actions of a small cohort of the rental housing industry subjecting prospective tenants to a “bidding war” process to secu...

September 6, 2016

Seattle considers limits — or taxes — on Airbnb rentals

by David Kroman What does Airbnb have to lose with Seattle’s new proposed regulations on rentals? By one estimate, a lot. Last Thursday, the data-centric news website FiveThirtyEight (a media outlet spun off from the New York Times) released an analysis of Airbn...

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