Fun comparison - from 1941 and 1951 census we can see that elementary age children in CoV increased by 9000 in 10 years, or about 14 OVE's worth. At 18 years of process per 630 additional capacity, it would take today school board 257 years to handle it.

TIL that no one is opposed to more housing.

Pack it up yimbos, mission accomplished I guess?

1972

1991 editorial (found by searching for "43 metres") about a proposed Sutton hotel

2025 anti-houser: "The problem today is that we have financialized housing!! Houses are seen as profit making financial assets rather than homes!!"

1907:

TIL that in 1907 ppl in horse drawn wagons tried to beat trains at crossings. For some reason I guess I figured that was just a car driver thing. RIP

1907 Vancouver - a time when housing was for living in and was totally not treated like an investment or speculated on like it is today...

Amazing

Everyone who lives in a region, whether owner, tenant, underhoused, or homeless, along with everyone who wants to live there, is part of the demand for floorspace in that region.

24x7 you are consuming a depreciating asset (structure) and consuming the right to exclude others from a location (land)

1968 - Vancouver Town Planning Commissioner says land for housing is too scarce