Interesting thing in YVR politics is that every party seems to be backing away from the villiages plan Is the constituency for upzoning so poor that every last party must take the “send back for more consultation” position or even worse? It’s not even as ambitious as 6 flr & corner store from 2022

YIMBYs: I live in a shoebox on an arterial road and cannot afford children. NIMBYs: Living near apartment buildings in my $3M home makes me inexplicably sad and also furious. Local government: How sad? How furious?

every time you write overly defensively you should remember that you are pursuing a strategy of writing careful sentences specifically for people who demonstrably either won't or can't read them

Football stadium @mnolangray.bsky.social

It's unusual for me to find a politician that's more YIMBY than I am, but Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek's administration is proposing to essentially replace local zoning on most parcels in the state with the last 4 pages of this document www.oregon.gov/lcd/LAR/Docu...

British Columbia was trying to force municipalities to upzone around transit like this — circles rather than corridors. I interviewed the BC Housing Minister when they started doing this. Anyone have an update on how it’s been going?

What the heck do "villages" have to do with Vancouver housing policy?! We're a CITY aren't we?!! Turns out it's the largest Vancouver land use plan of this council's term! 4-6 floor apartments off arterial roads! 🎉 Mixed use commercial streets! 🏪 Let's see how the public hearing goes!

Peter Waldkirch was on CBC's BC Today to talk the Villages Plan! youtu.be/xQe3s6bx41s... 1/2

Twenty homeowners on Monroe Crescent have signed a petition for the Villages Plan. Not to oppose it, but asking to be included! council.vancouver.ca... 1/2

Nice one @dannyoleksiuk.bsky.social!

A great letter in support of the proposed West-side Villages. "it’s no wonder that ... data show Dunbar & Arbutus Ridge, where the westside villages will be located, as the MOST expensive area in all of metro Vancouver for multi-bedroom rentals." www.abundanthousingv...

CBC On the Coast: "Vancouver's 'Villages' Plan" Danny Oleksiuk describes the two biggest advantages of the plan: 1. Allow apartments on quiet streets. 2. Spreads growth around instead of concentrating it, including some slow growth areas. www.cbc.ca/listen/li...

Laura Dern pays tribute to Sam Neill. “Sam was my beloved lifetime friend. He showed me the depths of loyalty, protectiveness and love, always with the driest wit. He was a true and noble gentleman, wrapped up in my dream leading man. I will love you forever, Dr. Alan Grant.”

NIMBYs always support Paris densities until it's actually being proposed for their neighbourhood (This is far less density than Paris anyway). Please, please, please take two seconds to submit a comment saying you support this.

🚨 Eye candy alert 🚨 How do we add more homes to our existing leafy, quiet, 50'-wide residential lots? @lanefab.com has a gorgeous idea.

Correspondence for the upcoming Villages hearing is not looking good, 863 opposing comments so far. If you want more homes+shops in single-family neighbourhoods you *need* to write in council.vancouver.ca/20260714/phe...

We asked the Vancouver Police Department why it will cost $200,000 per week, on top of their $497 million budget, to police a car-free Granville strip for six additional weeks this summer. They refused to answer.

we could solve the congestion problem with a toll we would be incredibly many billion dollars better off, freight traffic would move fluidly I keep hearing how the province is broke and we can't pay for things

"Over my dead body": homeowners refuse to pay new tax. "So our options are to rent- which is not feasible. We don't want to..." Enlightening interview about Belcarra homeowners who don't want to pay taxes on empty homes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFPY...

🚨 If you want to speak to the Villages proposal on July 14, registration opens at 8:30AM tomorrow 🚨 This is probably the most important item of the year and it could use your support; you should write in too council.vancouver.ca/20260714/phe...

Rain or shine the Hong Kong-Shenzhen-Guangzhou HSL, one of the busiest HSLs in the world continues to operate. Video by 匆匆.

Requiring for-profit developers to rent a percentage of new homes to poor people at a loss is bad, kludgy neoliberal policy that attempts to outsource a key state function to private market actors. Instead of this de facto tax on new housing, the state should tax property to fund housing subsidies.

One simple way to plan for better urbanism is by promoting high-density buildings on small lots. You get architectural variety, small ground floor retail spaces, limited demolition of existing buildings, and "gradual" rather than "cataclysmic" change. benjaminschneider.substack.com/p/san-franci...

Affordability requirements on new, dense housing are common. Much rarer are affordability requirements on existing, lower-density housing. Which affordability requirements make more sense, and why?

Downtown is wayyyy louder for this Mexico game than for any of the Canada games so far.

This could be us, Vancouver.

Brazil has finally joined Canada as a leading soccer nation at this world cup

Hotels allowed by-right near every hospital. Vancouver’s specialty care serves the entire province, but the out of towners can’t vote here so we throw them to the wolves

So, there are roughly 60,000 formerly "single family" lots in the City of Vancouver. Between 2000 and 2020 many of those went from ~$400k to anywhere from $1.5 to $6m. Call it $2.5m with a gain of $2m on average over 20 years. That's $6b per year, for 20 years, in single family equity gains.

The panic over Senakw rents is suspect. At any given time, there are many similarly expensive condo listings. Entire quarters of the city have been reserved for more expensive homes. So why the particular outrage, now, over this?

And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife And you may ask yourself, "Well, how did I get here?"

Ten years ago today, we started fighting back against exclusionary zoning in Vancouver. We got hissed at, NIMBYs NIMBY'd, YIMBYs YIMBY'd, a flat-earther brought a baby! The video of that public hearing is a really fun time capsule: searcharchives.vancouver.ca/public-heari...

My e-bike was legally required to be speed limited at 32km/h for "safety."

We build vehicles that weigh 9000 pounds with 1000HP, can go 0-60mph in 3 seconds and market them recklessly. We then ask people to wear construction vests to cross the street. This is all so beyond absurd and it's truly incredible that we've normalized this.

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i think if you dress like this, you deserve to do a little corruption

One reason I think YIMBYism has grown so rapidly and also has serious staying power is that YIMBYs for the most part are definitely not the coolest cats in the room. We're a bunch of kind of friendly nerds obsessed with strange minutiae of land use and building codes. And we love each other for it!

Buchanan has been fantastic today

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Congrats to all of the people who have worked so hard to brand Vancouver as "towers full of vacant luxury condominiums" I guess. Anyway, here's the map from 2025's Empty Homes Tax report. Once again, very little empty, with the mansion hoods in the SW leading the pack. vancouver.ca/files/cov/20...

Go Canada and all that but a red seems extremely harsh for that play. Glad we scored twice before: that's not how you want to win.

Living in Gastown is fun because you can hear the actual cheers when Canada scores about 10 seconds before it airs on TV.

All these years, you people judged me for swimming in Trout Lake. Just look at the data now:

"The Squamish are going to make a lot of money, and Vancouver is going to get a lot of new housing." Very good profile of the amazing Senakw project in the NYT today, featuring @1alexhemingway.bsky.social and @khelsilem.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/o...

Granville pedestrianization for World Cup seems so far to be hugely popular and successful. You could say it’s a test run toward the future. Our recently adopted Granville Street Plan lays out a fully pedestrian vision.

This is the World Cup content I'm here for.

YIMBY/pro-housing is one of the precious few issues in US politics that has managed to hold itself somewhat apart from the polarization that sucks everything else in. It's got bipartisan, or at least cross-partisan, support. My dream is for clean electrification to follow suit.

Vive le San Antonio!

Why is the rent so damn high in LA? Simple economics: the demand for housing is extremely high and our housing supply is extremely low.

Excited to be working on a new approach to a land value tax that would be legal in WA state. Tax buildings less and land more and you'll get more new buildings and less vacant land. It's a non-zoning solution for mitigating the housing shortage, and it's value capture done right.