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Vancouver Mayor: City Is 'At a Breaking Point'

Urgent action needed to cool housing market, but Gregor Robertson says he needs help. Last in a series. By David P. Ball This spring, Vancouver hit another milestone as one of the world's most expensive places to live. The month of May set a 10-year record f...
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2015 Mid-Year Greater Vancouver Apartment Building Market Review

The Goodman Report. With the first six months of 2015 now behind us, it's time to analyze how this year's performance compares to 2014 for the same time period in Greater Vancouver.   Their latest report, 2015 Mid-Year Apartment Building Market Review provides an ...
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New Service BC Centre – Victoria

A new Service BC Centre opened in Victoria at 403 - 771 Vernon Avenue.  Service BC provides Residential Tenancy Branch front counter services as well as a range of other government services.   With the successful launch of services to the Service BC Centre, the Resi...
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Metro Vancouver Enacts Increased Water Conservation Measures

Due to unseasonably dry and hot weather, Metro Vancouver has further restricted water use, including lawn sprinkling regulations. Residential: Even-numbered addresses may sprinkle lawns only Monday mornings 4 a.m. - 9 a.m. Odd-numbered addresses may spri...
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Metro Vancouver residents reject tax to fund transportation projects

By Rob Shaw and Kelly Sinoski, Vancouver Sun Metro Vancouver residents have rejected a tax increase to pay for expanded transit service, according to plebiscite results from Elections BC. Elections BC says 61.68 per cent per cent of voters were against the new t...
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City sings two tunes on CACs and housing affordability

By Peter Mitham, Business In Vancouver Improvement without impact One of the hazards of being a writer is a tendency to parse other people’s communications too closely; for instance, the latest reports from Vancouver regarding community amenity contributions (CA...
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Tower planned for Victoria motel site near legislature

A prominent Victoria site where rot has set in at a long-vacant motel is on the cusp of getting new life as a seniors’ housing centre with shops on the ground floor. The 15-storey seniors’ housing project is proposed for a site occupied by the boarded-up Crystal Cou...
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Capital Regional District rejects affordable-housing proposal

By Bill Cleverley / Times Colonist Subsidizing rents in a converted motel on Douglas Street does not translate into new affordable housing, Capital Regional District directors have decided. Despite being recommended for approval by CRD staff and the Regional Hou...