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…
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…
