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Pet owners feel rental market squeeze

Low vacancies leave people with pets struggling to find housing  Brent Richter / North Shore News North Vancouver native Jess Nelson would love to move back to the North Shore – but no landlords will have her four-year-old mutt Red. In a rental market with l...
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City of Vancouver releases comprehensive study on empty homes

  City of VancouverIssue BulletinMarch 8, 2016   City releases comprehensive study on empty homes Responding to public concerns that empty homes could be impacting housing affordability and neighbourhood vibrancy, the City of Vancouver presented the finding...
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CMHC revs up hunt for foreign flows into torrid housing market

KATIA DMITRIEVABloomberg News Canada’s housing agency, looking for new methods to track foreign ownership in the country’s soaring real estate markets, may tap money laundering police and classify international university students as foreign buyers, according to int...
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Vancouver City Council selects Sadhu Johnston as new City Manager

  City of VancouverNews ReleaseMarch 3, 2016   Council selects Sadhu Johnston as new City Manager   Following a four month international search, Vancouver City Council has selected Sadhu Johnston as the new City Manager for the City of Vancouver. As ...
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Nano living: UBC debuts 140-square-foot student suite

Darcy Matheson, Senior Digital Producer, CTV Vancouver The University of B.C. is giving students a first-hand look at its very tiny solution to affordable student living. On Monday, the campus debuted a full-scale mockup of its so-called “Nano suite” – a self-co...
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Airbnb-Craigslist rental scam dupes Vancouverites out of $1,000

Scammer pretends to own condo he booked on Airbnb, makes off with $1,000 deposits By Erica Johnson, CBC News Sarah Bidner says she's "still in shock" after a longtime criminal bilked her out of $1,000 in a rental scam.   Bidner and her boyfriend Daryl McDona...
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B.C. cities must cut red tape for affordable-housing funds

Mike Hager And Justine Hunter, The Globe and Mail B.C. communities that want to dip into the province’s new affordable-housing fund will have to show they can get construction for such projects approved quickly, says the minister responsible for the file. Rich C...