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'Snob zoning' is keeping Vancouver unaffordable: UBC economist

Jon Woodward, CTV News Rules designed to “preserve the character” of Vancouver neighbourhoods are keeping out working people and effectively subsidizing the owners of multi-million dollar homes, according to a UBC economist. And those zoning rules are encouragin...
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Metrotown residents fight to save their homes from demolition

By KELLY SINOSKI, Vancouver Sun Metrotown residents are calling on the city of Burnaby to declare an immediate moratorium on the demolition of rental apartments and to find homes for those who have been evicted, saying the move is creating a “hidden homeless” popula...
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Vancouver Housing Report Mostly 'A's, but Look Closer, Critics Say

Absence of detail, too broad a focus among faults found in city’s renter strategy. By Katie Hyslop, TheTyee.ca Four years into the City of Vancouver's decade-long Housing and Homelessness Strategy, the news it has to report so far is all good. Counting appro...