Peter Waldkirch is a lawyer and housing advocate in Vancouver, BC.
There’s a proposal for a 79 storey building downtown. It’s a mix of condos, rentals, hotel, and commercial space and is part of a 4-tower project across two sites, including a 38-storey social housing apartment that would transferred to the City. I was on the Mike Smyth show today to…
As they say, I have some personal news: Yep, I’m seeking a nomination to run for Vancouver Council with OneCity Vancouver. My campaign website (where you can sign up to OneCity to support me!) is here. Housing and urbanism advocacy has become a large part of my life over the…
tl;dr click here to get instructions on how to support the Olympic Village elementary school! Write in by February 12! One of the big problems in Vancouver is that maintaining the status quo is so deeply embedded in our institutions that it’s incredibly difficult to actually do anything: building housing,…
William Azaroff (along with Amanda Burrows) is seeking OneCity’s nomination as their mayoral candidate in the next election. William just came out with a policy proposal to make it easier to build childcare in Vancouver: “We will make childcare a permitted use by right in every residential and commercial zone…
I was back on the CBC today to talk housing, on a BC Today panel with Michael Geller. As always I had a lot of fun, it’s always exciting trying to spread the pro-housing message! Here’s a link to the full discussion: And here’s a clip of my response to…
Yesterday I did a post about the top books I read I read in 2025, so today I’ll do my top 10 movies! Unlike my book list, I’ll limit this to movies that came out in 2025. Like my book list, this is in no particular order, except for #1.…
I read 41 books this year! That is less than over the last few years, but it also included a few big ones…and hey, I finished a Master’s degree this year too! I’m mostly a fiction reader (outside of work, at least). Now that I’ve got a blog, let’s do…
I was invited to be on the Early Edition with Stephen Quinn this morning to talk about the year in housing, along with Michael Geller. If you follow this stuff you probably know that Michael and I have different views on a lot of things, but I think that contributed…
The rental apartment at Broadway and MIRHPP looks just about finished! It’s a real beauty: You can see a lovely detail at the tops: Raven statues! This is a rental building with 165 homes enabled by the (sadly now defunct) MIRHPP policy: the Moderate Income Rental Housing Pilot Program. The…
When I went to speak at Vancouver Council in support of the rental apartments at Broadway and Commercial, I decided to do something a bit different: I sang a song! I flubbed the performance a bit so I recorded it again at home the next day: So why did I…
