Danny Oleksiuk
@dannyoleksiuk.bsky.social
Director with Abundant Housing Vancouver
Fellow @sightline.org
"There are four lights"
Fellow @sightline.org
"There are four lights"
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Fantastic article by @dannyoleksiuk.bsky.social in @Sightline.org
What I am most struck by is that ALL of my favourite buildings in Vancouver's residential neighbourhoods are ~4-6 storey apartments! Beautiful - I wish we would embrace heritage zoning laws!
www.sightline.org/2025/10/28/t...
What I am most struck by is that ALL of my favourite buildings in Vancouver's residential neighbourhoods are ~4-6 storey apartments! Beautiful - I wish we would embrace heritage zoning laws!
www.sightline.org/2025/10/28/t...
To Build Fast, Think Small | Sightline Institute
How re-legalizing small apartment buildings would spur the homes city dwellers need now.
www.sightline.org
November 12, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Fantastic article by @dannyoleksiuk.bsky.social in @Sightline.org
What I am most struck by is that ALL of my favourite buildings in Vancouver's residential neighbourhoods are ~4-6 storey apartments! Beautiful - I wish we would embrace heritage zoning laws!
www.sightline.org/2025/10/28/t...
What I am most struck by is that ALL of my favourite buildings in Vancouver's residential neighbourhoods are ~4-6 storey apartments! Beautiful - I wish we would embrace heritage zoning laws!
www.sightline.org/2025/10/28/t...
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I have lost so much pigment in what’s left of my hair arguing with planners to legalize these everywhere and someday I’m going to sip a glass of wine inside of one built as result of those efforts
Neighborhood-scale apartment buildings like these in Fairview have been all but illegal to build in #VancouverBC for nearly a century.
October 28, 2025 at 11:15 PM
I have lost so much pigment in what’s left of my hair arguing with planners to legalize these everywhere and someday I’m going to sip a glass of wine inside of one built as result of those efforts
I published an article today and Vladdy hit a home run off of Ohtani so overall just a very good day
October 29, 2025 at 2:49 AM
I published an article today and Vladdy hit a home run off of Ohtani so overall just a very good day
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@dannyoleksiuk.bsky.social writes for @sightline.org about the potential to bring back small lot apartment buildings.
#singlestair code changes can unlock this option for the first time in a century. Let’s go!
www.sightline.org/2025/10/28/t...
#singlestair code changes can unlock this option for the first time in a century. Let’s go!
www.sightline.org/2025/10/28/t...
To Build Fast, Think Small | Sightline Institute
How re-legalizing small apartment buildings would spur the homes city dwellers need now.
www.sightline.org
October 28, 2025 at 4:31 PM
@dannyoleksiuk.bsky.social writes for @sightline.org about the potential to bring back small lot apartment buildings.
#singlestair code changes can unlock this option for the first time in a century. Let’s go!
www.sightline.org/2025/10/28/t...
#singlestair code changes can unlock this option for the first time in a century. Let’s go!
www.sightline.org/2025/10/28/t...
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To people looking for a home today, writes @dannyoleksiuk.bsky.social, it matters a great deal whether that home is built next year, or in ten. Re-legalizing small apartment buildings throughout our cities would create more homes faster. www.sightline.org/2025/10/28/t...
To Build Fast, Think Small | Sightline Institute
How re-legalizing small apartment buildings would spur the homes city dwellers need now.
www.sightline.org
October 28, 2025 at 5:37 PM
To people looking for a home today, writes @dannyoleksiuk.bsky.social, it matters a great deal whether that home is built next year, or in ten. Re-legalizing small apartment buildings throughout our cities would create more homes faster. www.sightline.org/2025/10/28/t...
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i have about two million followers across three platforms. statistically, about 20,000 of you are in the top 1% in terms of wealth. if any of you feel like leaving me your home in a walkable neighborhood when you die, that would make for a very heartwarming social media story.
October 23, 2025 at 10:21 PM
i have about two million followers across three platforms. statistically, about 20,000 of you are in the top 1% in terms of wealth. if any of you feel like leaving me your home in a walkable neighborhood when you die, that would make for a very heartwarming social media story.
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Here's a consolidated thread with some of our more recent #SingleStair explorations.
We've been doing these with the aim to influence vancouver zoning and building code deliberations, and because we want to understand what the potential is.
First up: 33x122 lots, 4 and 5 storey, fronting a park
We've been doing these with the aim to influence vancouver zoning and building code deliberations, and because we want to understand what the potential is.
First up: 33x122 lots, 4 and 5 storey, fronting a park
October 22, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Here's a consolidated thread with some of our more recent #SingleStair explorations.
We've been doing these with the aim to influence vancouver zoning and building code deliberations, and because we want to understand what the potential is.
First up: 33x122 lots, 4 and 5 storey, fronting a park
We've been doing these with the aim to influence vancouver zoning and building code deliberations, and because we want to understand what the potential is.
First up: 33x122 lots, 4 and 5 storey, fronting a park
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when you make the *existing city* illegal to build again today this is the obvious and inevitable consequence: www.latimes.com/california/s...
October 22, 2025 at 1:36 PM
when you make the *existing city* illegal to build again today this is the obvious and inevitable consequence: www.latimes.com/california/s...
The day is off to a good start
October 22, 2025 at 3:13 PM
The day is off to a good start
Just hit a new deadlift personal best at 185kg, reaching my goal for the year with 2.5 months to spare.
October 14, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Just hit a new deadlift personal best at 185kg, reaching my goal for the year with 2.5 months to spare.
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people protesting an extra floor at the OV school because of congestion when I will quite literally buy a car to drive up to Ontario & 16th for his current catchment if he can’t get into the OV school
October 4, 2025 at 11:45 PM
people protesting an extra floor at the OV school because of congestion when I will quite literally buy a car to drive up to Ontario & 16th for his current catchment if he can’t get into the OV school
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The New Vancouver Special - 50' lot edition.
Accessible single stair flats on a 50x122 lot.
12 family size homes (or) 24 small units.
Accessible single stair flats on a 50x122 lot.
12 family size homes (or) 24 small units.
October 3, 2025 at 7:54 PM
The New Vancouver Special - 50' lot edition.
Accessible single stair flats on a 50x122 lot.
12 family size homes (or) 24 small units.
Accessible single stair flats on a 50x122 lot.
12 family size homes (or) 24 small units.
Alejandro Kirk is having a great day
September 28, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Alejandro Kirk is having a great day
Please join me in voting for Vancouver's worst intersection: Main and 7th.
I lived above this intersection, breathing tire dust and dodging rams, for 5 years. There is an incredible assortment of small businesses and a thriving community here, but the intersection is awful.
I lived above this intersection, breathing tire dust and dodging rams, for 5 years. There is an incredible assortment of small businesses and a thriving community here, but the intersection is awful.
We started with 32, nominated by you. We're down to TWO intersections in the Worst Intersection in Metro Vancouver finals!
Main & 7th & Kingsway? Or No. 3 Rd & Sea Island Way & Bridgeport Rd? Only one can emerge victorious. Vote now!
visionzerovancouver.ca/2025/09/23/w...
Main & 7th & Kingsway? Or No. 3 Rd & Sea Island Way & Bridgeport Rd? Only one can emerge victorious. Vote now!
visionzerovancouver.ca/2025/09/23/w...
What’s the worst intersection in Metro Vancouver? (FINALE)
The semi-final votes are in: you’ve narrowed our 32 intersections down to the Grand Finale, pitting Vancouver’s triangular terror at Main & Kingsway against Richmond’s chaotic…
visionzerovancouver.ca
September 23, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Please join me in voting for Vancouver's worst intersection: Main and 7th.
I lived above this intersection, breathing tire dust and dodging rams, for 5 years. There is an incredible assortment of small businesses and a thriving community here, but the intersection is awful.
I lived above this intersection, breathing tire dust and dodging rams, for 5 years. There is an incredible assortment of small businesses and a thriving community here, but the intersection is awful.
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Vancouver (Extra) Special
33' lots
4 and 6 storey single-stair buildings.
3Br accessible flats, adjacent to a park.
(sketchup / ai render)
33' lots
4 and 6 storey single-stair buildings.
3Br accessible flats, adjacent to a park.
(sketchup / ai render)
September 22, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Vancouver (Extra) Special
33' lots
4 and 6 storey single-stair buildings.
3Br accessible flats, adjacent to a park.
(sketchup / ai render)
33' lots
4 and 6 storey single-stair buildings.
3Br accessible flats, adjacent to a park.
(sketchup / ai render)
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it is wild that Vancouver still reserves this land near UBC and Spanish Banks for *massive* mansions. I still think about how Vision voted down a motion to allow apartments and social+seniors housing here
On a walking tour of $tens-of-millions mega mansions in Point Grey (no sidewalks), which areq the only properties legally allowed to be built under the local zoning, @pwaldkirch.bsky.social asks "is this really the best thing we could be doing with this land?"
September 21, 2025 at 4:02 AM
it is wild that Vancouver still reserves this land near UBC and Spanish Banks for *massive* mansions. I still think about how Vision voted down a motion to allow apartments and social+seniors housing here
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this exists it is called thinking
September 20, 2025 at 12:15 PM
this exists it is called thinking
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Events around Metro Vancouver today:
🎶 Orpheum Tours
⚽️ @vancouverrisefc.bsky.social
⚓️ Shipyards Festival
🏁 Car Free Day North Van
🥌 Richmond Curling Open House
🔥 Fire Dragon Festival
and “Vancouver’s Worst Zoning: The Walking Tour”…
🎶 Orpheum Tours
⚽️ @vancouverrisefc.bsky.social
⚓️ Shipyards Festival
🏁 Car Free Day North Van
🥌 Richmond Curling Open House
🔥 Fire Dragon Festival
and “Vancouver’s Worst Zoning: The Walking Tour”…
Things to do in Vancouver This Weekend Events September 19-21
50+ events and fun things to do around Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley. Things to do in Vancouver this weekend September 19-21, 2025.
miss604.com
September 20, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Events around Metro Vancouver today:
🎶 Orpheum Tours
⚽️ @vancouverrisefc.bsky.social
⚓️ Shipyards Festival
🏁 Car Free Day North Van
🥌 Richmond Curling Open House
🔥 Fire Dragon Festival
and “Vancouver’s Worst Zoning: The Walking Tour”…
🎶 Orpheum Tours
⚽️ @vancouverrisefc.bsky.social
⚓️ Shipyards Festival
🏁 Car Free Day North Van
🥌 Richmond Curling Open House
🔥 Fire Dragon Festival
and “Vancouver’s Worst Zoning: The Walking Tour”…
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thinking, after a pedestrian was killed at 12th and Victoria, about how Vancouver has a 311 app with a million categories and no way to complain about a dangerous intersection
September 18, 2025 at 6:53 PM
thinking, after a pedestrian was killed at 12th and Victoria, about how Vancouver has a 311 app with a million categories and no way to complain about a dangerous intersection
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YIMBYism is a rare thing in that it’s a disciplined and effective but largely nonprofessional movement, and if I were a Democratic funder I would spend money on figuring out how to build on that model instead of paying for more issue polls
September 17, 2025 at 3:33 PM
YIMBYism is a rare thing in that it’s a disciplined and effective but largely nonprofessional movement, and if I were a Democratic funder I would spend money on figuring out how to build on that model instead of paying for more issue polls
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Great new episode of UCLA Housing Voice podcast @shanedphillips.bsky.social, featuring @holz-bau.bsky.social on single-stairs & ecodistricts, and how they differ from TOD. Definitely worth the listen to learn more about these issues:
Episode 97: Single-Stair Buildings and Eco-Districts with Michael Eliason (Incentives Series, pt. 1) - UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies
We discuss Michael's recent book, Building for People, with a focus on single-stair building code reform and eco-district redevelopment.
www.lewis.ucla.edu
September 17, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Great new episode of UCLA Housing Voice podcast @shanedphillips.bsky.social, featuring @holz-bau.bsky.social on single-stairs & ecodistricts, and how they differ from TOD. Definitely worth the listen to learn more about these issues:
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Very frustrating to me that I know of several great state-level advocacy organizations and progressive news outlets scrambling for funding, but the Beltway appears to be full of suitcases of money sitting around for anyone who wants to launch their own I’m Mad at Bluesky Institute
September 17, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Very frustrating to me that I know of several great state-level advocacy organizations and progressive news outlets scrambling for funding, but the Beltway appears to be full of suitcases of money sitting around for anyone who wants to launch their own I’m Mad at Bluesky Institute
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I /could/ be spending the night reading this gorgeous HP Lovecraft book...but instead I'll experience a different sort of weird horror.
I'm going to liveskeet tonight's public hearing! The city wants to actually <gasp> rezone stuff on its own initiative!
I'm going to liveskeet tonight's public hearing! The city wants to actually <gasp> rezone stuff on its own initiative!
September 17, 2025 at 1:06 AM
I /could/ be spending the night reading this gorgeous HP Lovecraft book...but instead I'll experience a different sort of weird horror.
I'm going to liveskeet tonight's public hearing! The city wants to actually <gasp> rezone stuff on its own initiative!
I'm going to liveskeet tonight's public hearing! The city wants to actually <gasp> rezone stuff on its own initiative!