Low-Rent Mansion Living? In Vancouver? Really?
Yes, really. Groups of frustrated renters are snapping up urban acreages, and spend less on housing than the rest of us.
Tag Archives: Affordable Housing
Can Portland Hotel Society’s New Boss Restore Faith?
‘There won’t be any more Disneyland trips,’ says new head of beleaguered nonprofit.
DTES transformation set at $1 billion
Vancouver released its proposal for the troubled Downtown Eastside neighbourhood Thursday at a price tag of more than $1 billion.
Out-of-the-box housing solution: Seven-storey recycled tower the next phase of a project too good to contain
Five months after launching its prototype, Atira aims for a seven-storey recycled tower.
SERIES—False Creek South: An Experiment in Community
Tyee Solutions Society explored one of the country’s most audacious, if now long-forgotten, experiments in social and urban engineering.
Second Life for False Creek South?
A deal that made Vancouver’s urban housing experiment possible now clouds its future. Last in a series.
A Hippie-era Urban Experiment Hits 40
Eccentric False Creek South nailed one goal: creating real community in Vancouver’s core. Part 3 of a series.
Stars Aligned for False Creek South
Decades ago, three levels of gov’t agreed to build something a little crazy. Funny thing: it mostly worked. Part 2 of a series.
False Creek’s Urban Experiment Seeks a Second Act
Clock ticking for a Trudeau-era attempt at a visionary utopia in Vancouver. Part 1 of 4.
Judge again orders Abbotsford homeless camp eviction
As temperatures plummet and snow billows down before the holidays, today a B.C. Supreme Court judge ordered the eviction of an Abbotsford homeless camp.
David P Ball 