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2024-11-14 20:14:20

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@nprofile…qu5h
But something clicked in my brain when I read a 1970s letter to the editor by longtime affordable housing advocate Jean Swanson. She was protesting the destruction of single family homes in Grandview-Woodland, because their replacements (three story walk up apartments) would be less affordable.
Fast forward to 2018 and these apartments were the affordable housing and I was living in one! The single family homes had 3x-4x higher rent

2024-11-14 20:14:20

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2024-11-14 20:11:02

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@nprofile…qu5h
The empty homes taxes here rustled up 20,000 dwellings much faster than they could be built. Didn't drop rents year-to-year, because we're so deep in the hole, but that's presumably ~40K people who didn't have to move away from the city.
If there are lots of empty homes/lots near you, then yeah you should be looking for ways to force the hand of the landowner to sell or rent it!

2024-11-14 19:34:56

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@nprofile…qu5h
It all depends whether there are enough homes to go around. If there aren't, then lowering prices means a non-capitalistic way of picking who gets a home - eg waitlists, lotteries, knowing the right people, etc.
In Vancouver, almost every rental unit is occupied, and rents and house prices are both really high, which means more people want to live here than there are homes for.
This means people must get pushed out - by prices, or waitlists, or ??? Pick your poison, or build!
#cdnpoli

2024-10-26 23:38:37

Is the NDP's outperformance in mail-in ballots an every-election thing, or is it happening because the BC Cons are new and disorganised and didn't encourage their supporters to do postal votes?
#bcpoli

2024-09-13 21:26:23

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@npub1aq2…4nfw
You're telling me this whole thing has been a wild goose chase?!