Peter Waldkirch is a lawyer and housing advocate in Vancouver, BC.
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…
Lucy Maloney, a Vancouver City councilor with OneCity, has a new motion coming up on September 17, 2025, that I encourage everyone to support: “Beyond Arterials: Creating More Housing Options on Low-Traffic Streets”. You can read a bit more about why this is important below, or CLICK HERE to go…
Yep, I’m taking the plunge and have signed up for TikTok. I’m @pwaldkirch. If you’re on it, give me a follow, and if you have any recommendations for good urbanism accounts there let me know! My second post there is doing surprisingly well and is getting (what seems to me)…
Stephen Quinn had me on to talk about some updates to the Broadway Plan that happened in December 2024, and it gave me a great opportunity to talk about some key ideas. Here’s a clip; the full interview is here. He introduced Abundant Housing Vancouver as a “pro-density” group, which…
It’s hard to link directly to clips of radio interviews, and the links seem to die/change often, so I’m going to start uploading some of my earlier clips to try to have ’em in one place. The topic of this one was the housing shortage generally. Listening to it, I…
I was on the Mike Smyth show (Robin Gill was filling in for him) this morning to talk about my recent op-ed, the appointment of Christine Boyle as the new housing minister, and provincial intervention in housing policy generally. I’m always happy when I get a chance to be on…
