Council approves affordable housing action
Vancouver city council has unanimously approved the motion proposed last month by Raymond Louie, seconded by me, to take immediate action on the affordable housing crisis. (Debate was deferred to the...
View ArticlePeck offers first insider account of Olympic loan leak panic
Lawyer Richard Peck’s Vancouver Olympic Village Document Leak Review, Phase One, distributed at council yesterday, contains this striking disclosure: the much-ballyhooed numbered document system used...
View ArticleDead quiet location for housing roundtable
The decision to push forward on Vision’s commitment to build more affordable market and rent housing is producing results. On Saturday, leading developers, architects and community housing activists...
View ArticleThe Lo memo: more questions than answers, but a pattern emerging
The City of Vancouver last week released, under a Freedom of Information request, the one and only piece of correspondence the Clerk’s Office can find from former Chief Financial Officer Estelle Lo to...
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Canada Line ped-bike bridge across the Fraser is a beauty
There was an excellent turnout of runners, pedestrians and cyclists from both sides of the Fraser today for Translink’s opening of the Canada Line Fraser River bike crossing. Cyclists head south from...
View ArticleDo community “visions” really look to the future? Or reflect the needs of the...
Council’s decision Sept. 23 to approve the West Point Grey Community Vision plan drew little attention, perhaps because the Vision document means little will happen in Point Grey as a result. As Bob...
View ArticleArbitration hands $6 million win to False Creek residents in dispute over...
An arbitration panel has awarded South West False Creek residents living on leased city land a 26 percent cut in monthly fee increases sought by the city, saving them as much as $6 million. The city...
View ArticleHousing action plan lays down markers to create homes for those who are...
In a council agenda packed with significant items, the proposed 10-year Housing and Homelessness Strategy may be the most significant: a goal of 38,000 new homes, with the emphasis on help for the vast...
View ArticleNew rental incentive program builds housing affordability on STIR gains
The Secured Market Rental Policy program going before the city’s Finance and Budget Committee Tuesday opens the door to long-term expansion of the city’s rental housing stock by building on the success...
View ArticleCouncil enacts higher fines for zoning, sign bylaw violations
Contrary to some reports, Vancouver city council has not approved $10,000 fines for “homelessness” in a package of bylaw enactments approved last night. The increased fines enacted at last night’s...
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