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Everyone simply assumes that housing costs too much because there is not enough "supply". But Vancouver is the living proof thats not true. And yet, UDI speaks, the NDP listens.
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pcondon2.bsky.social
pcondon2.bsky.social
February 24, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Everyone simply assumes that housing costs too much because there is not enough "supply". But Vancouver is the living proof thats not true. And yet, UDI speaks, the NDP listens.
cityhallwatch.wordpress.com/2025/02/24/c...
cityhallwatch.wordpress.com/2025/02/24/c...
Extracting 10 percent more each year out of renters who on average increase their income by only 3 percent is not an avenue that gets you to affordability - sadly.
February 24, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Extracting 10 percent more each year out of renters who on average increase their income by only 3 percent is not an avenue that gets you to affordability - sadly.
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Condon supports the taxing of landowners for the “land lift,” or increased value of land due to rezoning, and using the money for social benefit. In his book, Broken City, the message is not to wish for enough affordability after an upzone, but instead to insist on it
Condon supports the taxing of landowners for the “land lift,” or increased value of land due to rezoning, and using the money for social benefit. In his book, Broken City, the message is not to wish for enough affordability after an upzone, but instead to insist on it
The Big Real Estate Q: If We Need More Housing, Why Can't We Just Build It? - Vancouver Magazine
The refrain that Vancouver needs more housing supply goes back at least […]
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December 16, 2024 at 10:55 PM
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Condon supports the taxing of landowners for the “land lift,” or increased value of land due to rezoning, and using the money for social benefit. In his book, Broken City, the message is not to wish for enough affordability after an upzone, but instead to insist on it
Condon supports the taxing of landowners for the “land lift,” or increased value of land due to rezoning, and using the money for social benefit. In his book, Broken City, the message is not to wish for enough affordability after an upzone, but instead to insist on it
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Detailed study that shows zoning is not the reason why housing costs too much. Other things are at fault.
Detailed study that shows zoning is not the reason why housing costs too much. Other things are at fault.
www.velj.org
December 13, 2024 at 6:36 PM
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Detailed study that shows zoning is not the reason why housing costs too much. Other things are at fault.
Detailed study that shows zoning is not the reason why housing costs too much. Other things are at fault.
M comments on the Vancouver Broadway plan last night to council.
December 12, 2024 at 9:40 PM
M comments on the Vancouver Broadway plan last night to council.
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"When the city and province reduce expectations that highrise developers have to contribute to the public good through such things as attractive design and green spaces, Condon said,
"When the city and province reduce expectations that highrise developers have to contribute to the public good through such things as attractive design and green spaces, Condon said,
The 'uglification' of Metro Vancouver quickens with mass upzoning
Douglas Todd: Politicians are asking tower developers for fewer aesthetic features, community amenities. Residents lose, prices don’t fall.
vancouversun.com
November 28, 2024 at 9:47 PM
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"When the city and province reduce expectations that highrise developers have to contribute to the public good through such things as attractive design and green spaces, Condon said,
"When the city and province reduce expectations that highrise developers have to contribute to the public good through such things as attractive design and green spaces, Condon said,
Book review of Broken City. Thank you Francis.
"Broken City, though it leans towards realistic city-wide zoning approaches to combat the immediate crisis in housing and to restrain the seemingly inexorable rise in urban land prices"
www.commonwealth.ca/blog/broken-...
"Broken City, though it leans towards realistic city-wide zoning approaches to combat the immediate crisis in housing and to restrain the seemingly inexorable rise in urban land prices"
www.commonwealth.ca/blog/broken-...
Book Review — Broken City: Land Speculation. Inequality, and Urban Crisis (By Dr. Francis K. Peddle) — Common Wealth Canada
Broken City: Land Speculation. Inequality, and Urban Crisis - Professor Patrick M. Condon Vancouver: UBC Press, The University of British Columbia: 2024, 273, xiii https://www.ubcpress.ca/brok...
www.commonwealth.ca
November 26, 2024 at 7:16 PM
Book review of Broken City. Thank you Francis.
"Broken City, though it leans towards realistic city-wide zoning approaches to combat the immediate crisis in housing and to restrain the seemingly inexorable rise in urban land prices"
www.commonwealth.ca/blog/broken-...
"Broken City, though it leans towards realistic city-wide zoning approaches to combat the immediate crisis in housing and to restrain the seemingly inexorable rise in urban land prices"
www.commonwealth.ca/blog/broken-...
Friends and neighbors,
We find ourselves with a plan motivated by a falsehood—an unsupported belief that removing planning and development controls for new market rental towers along the Broadway corridor will lower rents.
We find ourselves with a plan motivated by a falsehood—an unsupported belief that removing planning and development controls for new market rental towers along the Broadway corridor will lower rents.
November 22, 2024 at 10:20 PM
Friends and neighbors,
We find ourselves with a plan motivated by a falsehood—an unsupported belief that removing planning and development controls for new market rental towers along the Broadway corridor will lower rents.
We find ourselves with a plan motivated by a falsehood—an unsupported belief that removing planning and development controls for new market rental towers along the Broadway corridor will lower rents.
Some deep thoughts from Erick Villagomez on the perils of "urban renewal" thinking
spacing.ca/vancouver/20...
spacing.ca/vancouver/20...
When Care Becomes Control: The Hidden Violence of Urban Planning - Spacing Vancouver
It seems to us that this connection—or better perhaps, confusion—between care and domination is utterly critical to the larger question of how we lost the ability freely to recreate ourselves by recre...
spacing.ca
November 18, 2024 at 7:44 PM
Some deep thoughts from Erick Villagomez on the perils of "urban renewal" thinking
spacing.ca/vancouver/20...
spacing.ca/vancouver/20...
Here is the headline:
Adding new rental housing supply along the Broadway corridor will not lower rents.
Sadly, the city is currently in the grip of a false real estate dogma: prices are high because supply is constrained, they say.
November 15, 2024 at 12:53 AM
Here is the headline:
Adding new rental housing supply along the Broadway corridor will not lower rents.
Sadly, the city is currently in the grip of a false real estate dogma: prices are high because supply is constrained, they say.
