Peter Waldkirch is a lawyer and housing advocate in Vancouver, BC.
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…
I’m with my wife visiting her family in Taipei, which I always love. Taipei is a vibrant and exciting city that makes the city-loving nerd in me very happy! There’s a lot of good urbanism here, some not-so-good, and since I’m now doing short videos I figured it would be…
Some of us at Abundant Housing Vancouver, and other urbanist friends, have been talking for years about making short form video content as a way to reach new people, but never really got around to it. But Twitter isn’t as fun as it used to be, and while Bluesky is…
Lucy Maloney (OneCity) brought forward a motion that directed staff to work on legalizing 6-floor apartments by bike routes and parks; I wrote about it here, but the point is I thought it was great. Vancouver desperately needs options for building low-rise apartments like these across the city, and legalizing…
Earlier this week I was walking through the Olympic Village when I noticed some leaflets put up on a development board. Turned out that some NIMBYs were opposing an elementary school, of all things. I did a TikTok on it that has got a lot of views (it’s embedded here…
