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February 6, 2020

Notice of Service Disruption – Online Dispute Resolution Services Unavailable from February 7th to February 18th

What will be affected? The Residential Tenancy Branch’s online application services - Intake and Dispute Access Site - will be unavailable beginning Friday, February 7 (4 PM) until Tuesday, February 18 (Noon) PST. However, landlords and tenants, may continue to submit ...

December 11, 2019

New Rental Zoning Tool Could Help Make New Rental Homes A Reality

MEDIA RELEASE A coalition of rental stakeholders, the Partners for Rental Housing, has released a technical report, entitled Making Rental a Reality, calling on the provincial government to bring forward guidelines and protocols in reference to a new and untested renta...

November 26, 2019

City of Vancouver Property Tax Increase – Just The Tip of the Iceberg for Purpose-Built Rental

So the word is out. The City of Vancouver is proposing an 8.3% property tax increase for 2020. The reaction from some councilors is that it’s time to play “catch-up”. They’re saying that had larger property tax increases been extended in past years, we wouldn’t have to...

November 19, 2019

Rental Housing: Where Seattle Thrives, Vancouver Stumbles

Reprinted from the Goodman Report By Andrey Pavlov, PH.D. Vancouver Mayor Kennedy Stewart apparently had a very productive visit to Seattle a couple of weeks ago. In an interview during his visit the mayor said he would like “to get a better understanding of how Seatt...

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