The affordable-housing task force, after five quick weeks of meetings, has come up with a very preliminary to-do list to try to create lower-cost housing for working people. Here are some of their ideas.

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Check the twittersphere for more news.

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The announcement by Coma Food Truck operator Jay Cho that he is winding up operations tomorrow provoked an outpouring of eating and grief this week by his many fans. Cho is giving up because he didn’t get selected for a permanent spot for the second year in a row. Although he seems to be successful […]

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The region’s mayors continue to struggle to find the formula for paying for transit and roads in the region long-term. Reporters tackled them yesterday at the end of their three-hour meeting, which Transportation Minister Blair Lekstrom attended part of,  and we all tried to pull something out of them about what’s coming up next. Weirdly, […]

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Sounds like cities have been listening to the grumbling they hear around them. As I note here, most municipalities have kept their tax increases low. (I hear West Van is pushing for zero) They know they need to, because they bear the brunt of complaint for the whole tax bill, of which city taxes are […]

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It was exciting for me to get to work this year on a story I’ve wanted to do for more than a decade: What is going to happen to Vancouver’s condo buildings at the end of their lives? I thought that perhaps I might be only imagining there could be problems when 150 people and […]

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When the Vancouver Fair Tax Coalition took out ads last week lobbying for no new property taxes in Vancouver, it might have sounded like the usual rhetoric from business groups about municipal spending: councillors don’t understand the impact of new taxes, municipal spending is out of control, yada yada But that message stung at Vancouver […]

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The Twittersphere already bubbling with ideas for what to do with our “iconic” bathtub building at one of the city’s key intersections, which started life as Eaton’s, continued for a while as eaton’s, became Sears and will now be ???

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Picking out a couple of commentaries from the posts in another thread on the Rize, which is generating the most interesting conversation I’ve seen about development and planning in this city than I’ve seen in a long time. The first from Cameron Gray, the former director of the city’s housing centre. The second from historian […]

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