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: Housing
In more than a decade of journalism, one of my enduring interests has been housing, real estate and homelessness.
In 2013, I began a year-long reporting project exploring solutions to the affordable housing crisis in B.C. for the Tyee Solutions Society, investigating rental, social housing, and homeownership. I have been covering housing issues regularly since I first slept overnight in a squatted abandoned building for a Martlet newspaper feature in 2003.
Below are some samples from my housing portfolio.
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 