Danny Oleksiuk
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Director with Abundant Housing Vancouver Fellow
@sightline.org
"There are four lights"
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David Eby
about 2 hours ago
British Columbians are deeply disturbed to see President Trump threaten “a whole civilization.” We want the people of Iran to be free from Iran’s oppressive regime. Threatening innocent Iranians does not achieve that goal.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
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it seems silly to say out loud but we're all adults here. whatever the preoccupations of the CIA / KGB we know that none of Gandhi, Nkrumah, Fannie Lou Hamer, the Viet Cong, the Mau Mau, uMkhonto weSizwe, the various mujahideen, the IRA were fighting for the sake of making either the USA or USSR #1
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"If you invade persia, you will end a great empire." - The Oracle at Delphi
about 9 hours ago
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ArtButMakeItSports
1 day ago
The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), by Hieronymus Bosch, 1480-1505, 📸 by @alexbrandon
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That's us, all of us, on the far right.
about 19 hours ago
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Abundant Housing Vancouver
1 day ago
"...growth in advanced economies has become increasingly biased toward knowledge-intensive activities that prefer large cities. Second, Canada’s urban regulations make it unusually hard for those cities to grow."
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Why Canada's housing crisis is a productivity crisis, too
Ricardo Hausmann and Eric Protzer: Canada's lack of suitable housing is a social problem, but it can also stymie growth. Read how.
https://financialpost.com/news/economy/canada-housing-crisis-is-productivity-crisis
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Land 🔰alue Tax Would Solve This 🌇🏗️
2 days ago
This is a banger.
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David Roberts
3 days ago
Americans are manipulated, abused, ripped off, injured, and taken advantage of by the auto industry complex in so many ways, large & small. Yet they just accept it so passively. It drives me crazy.
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It's 10am on a beautiful spring morning and a driver is already screaming at me for riding a scooter. Why can't drivers just be nice and normal?
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
4 days ago
being able to sit patiently with other people's thoughts, sit patiently with your own, and make both of those processes legible to someone who is not you is very valuable. if you can find a new way to do this that is fantastic news but I suspect it will at least resemble the model we've inherited
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Peter Waldkirch 華彼德
4 days ago
Crossed a street (as a ped). Cars have a stop sign. Some dude in an Evo comes speeding up, so I wait for him to actually stop before crossing. He slow rolls through, mocking me. This is 1 block from where the nanny was hit while in a marked intersection. Vancouver, our drivers are not alright.
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Hillbilly Highlander
5 days ago
Revenge is a dish best (soft) served cold.
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I ride here often and this is scary to see. Speeding is not frequent here, it is the norm. Simply putting up a 30km/h sign isn't keeping us safe.
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Ruofan 🚎
8 days ago
I was out in the Burke Mountain area of Coquitlam yesterday and couldn't help but feel that an environmental crime was committed here. This is a direct downstream consequence of Vancouver's failure to allow housing and Metro Vancouver's disastrous regional planning that promotes greenfield sprawl.
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Great turnout for
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Fairview and Mount Pleasant walking tour today.
9 days ago
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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦
14 days ago
I'll note that one of their candidates also ran last election, and faced repeated accusations of having a burner account that repeatedly insulted many Vancouverites (including myself), which were never addressed by the candidate or the party. So we'll see what happens this time!
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Dare Obasanjo
15 days ago
Wild that America has a president who regularly goes “I’ll start World War 3” to tank the stock market and then at the last minute says “j/k I’m not invading Greenland/Iran/Canada/etc” then the market jumps back up with mysterious people making a killing after he backs down. An amazing coincidence.
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Bryn Davidson - Lanefab
15 days ago
The "Four/Five" Vancouver Special Single Stair Accessible Flats on a 50' lot. This version, with the stair on the side, has ~2000sf floor plates that can be 1, 2 or 3 units per floor. If building 1 unit per floor you'd have 4 large townhouse flats with a smaller penthouse unit.
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Tom Flood
15 days ago
Wild that we refuse to build new actual mixed use streets but still slap on the idea of it as the facade to a mall.
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Ned Resnikoff
15 days ago
It's happening! BUILD OR DIE: HOW AMERICA IS SUFFOCATING ITS CITIES AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT, coming from Princeton University Press on December 8.
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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Build or Die
From a leading voice of the pro-housing movement comes a blueprint for revitalizing America’s major cities
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9781642834260/build-or-die
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Sky Marchini
20 days ago
"hey did you see the guy that's donated over $10,000 to looksmaxxing streamer clavicular? with the pepsi shi-" You bolt awake in the mountains of Carthage. You are not online. It is 217 BC. You are the general Hannibal, and you have changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Rome must burn.
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Peter Waldkirch 華彼德
20 days ago
Join me on a FREE walking tour! 16th Avenue: Yesterday & Tomorrow Sun March 29, 2 pm RSVP at Eventbrite link below From the amalgamation of Vancouver in 1929 to the Broadway Plan, this area can teach us a lot about the roots of the housing crisis..and what we can do about it!
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Bryn Davidson - Lanefab
21 days ago
"The Mansion Test" Ask your city council and planners: "is it easier to get a building permit for modest middle income housing, or for a 10,000 sf 'mansion'? " Development permit? Neighbour review? Affordability requirements? Design Guidelines? Density fees? Lanefab x HAVAN
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Jens von Bergmann
21 days ago
My take on modular/prefab is that we tend to view this as a technology problem when I think bc it’s mostly a regulation problem. Prefab requires scale, but you can’t get scale if every municipality has different rules (and every province has different building codes).
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Ken Jennings
22 days ago
They’re telling me a great empire will be destroyed if I attack Persia. Even the oracles who don’t like me very much, very nasty, they all said to me, “Sir, it’s one of the great empires, and it’ll be destroyed. And all because you attacked Persia.” That’s what they’re telling me.
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Bryn Davidson - Lanefab
22 days ago
How do we evolve from a car dependent suburb to a walkable urban neighbourhood? The "4/5" is a single lot, single stair prototype w/ accessible flats and a shared roof deck on the 4 storey portion in front. The rear 5 storey portion has a larger side yard (20% of the lot width) for light & trees.
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Abundant Housing Vancouver
28 days ago
Come say hi and meet some pro-housing neighbours at AHV's pub night! This Thursday, March 12! At the Rogue in Waterfront Station, starting at 5 pm. Whether you're a regular or a first-timer, we hope to see you there!
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Abundant Housing Vancouver Happy Hour Tickets, Thursday, Mar 12 from 5 pm to 8 pm | Eventbrite
Eventbrite - Abundant Housing Vancouver presents Abundant Housing Vancouver Happy Hour - Thursday, March 12, 2026 at Rogue Kitchen & Wetbar, Vancouver, BC. Find event and ticket information.
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/abundant-housing-vancouver-happy-hour-tickets-1984734719975?aff=oddtdtcreator
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That was a top 5 YIMBY experience for me
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I'll be on cbc radio with Patrick Condon at 1205 today talking about housing. On BC Today with Amy Bell. Tune in.
26 days ago
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Young people realize this
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about 1 month ago
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So many words to obfuscate this group's fundamental demand: to preserve mansion-only zoning in Dunbar and Point Grey and to price you out, and into the suburbs
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about 1 month ago
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John Michael McGrath
about 1 month ago
Colleague
@poppedculture.bsky.social
came into the office today ranting about this which I hadn't even seen yet but: "the rule of law for land use in Canada" remains an absolutely revolutionary political objective that nobody is interested in.
www.thestar.com/news/gta/six...
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Six storeys, 10 units: On paper, it seemed the kind of housing Toronto wants. Then its Scarborough neighbours weighed in
Mayor Olivia Chow is looking to reform the committee of adjustment after it rejected a building the developer says conforms to the city’s new housing goals.
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/six-storeys-10-units-on-paper-it-seemed-the-kind-of-housing-toronto-wants-then/article_f6c6999b-ba0c-4e6b-9b2e-37899bbcd736.html#selection-6527.0-6535.52
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Vision Zero Vancouver
about 1 month ago
"The crash highlights an unsettling truth about the city: despite its bike-friendly reputation and mild climate, recent years have seen Vancouver fall behind peers such as Montreal or Edmonton in making its streets safer [especially outside the downtown core]."
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Vancouver safe street advocate hit by car on way home from advocacy meeting
Rhiannon Fox, a vocal advocate for safer streets, was left with a broken wrist last week after a driver tried to overtake her on the left while she turned left on an e-scooter in Vancouver.
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/23/news/vancouver-safe-street-advocate-accident
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Tyler Olsen
about 1 month ago
I'll be in Squamish this Thursday chatting with
@jmcelroy.bsky.social
and
@editorthuncher.bsky.social
about municipal politics, journalism, and issues that will surface during the upcoming civic elections this fall. Still some (but not a ton) free tickets here:
www.eventbrite.ca/e/beyond-the...
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Beyond the Headlines: Covering Local Elections
Join us for a night of snacks, Squamish Trivia, and tales from those who have been covering municipal politics and elections from across B.C
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/beyond-the-headlines-covering-local-elections-tickets-1981541974387?utm_source=AHV
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Bryn Davidson - Lanefab
about 2 months ago
“Bike streets” ≠ Separated Bike Lanes (That’s why you don’t see many unaccompanied kids on “bike streets”)
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Abundant Housing Vancouver
about 2 months ago
Hotels are a much more efficient way to accommodate temporary visitors than full-year whole home rentals. Building them helps address the housing crisis and benefits both visitors & residents.
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Opinion: Why Vancouver's hotel shortage is driving our housing crisis | Urbanized
Vancouver's hotel shortage and the resulting demand for short-term rentals is driving our housing crisis, especially in downtown areas.
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-hotel-shortage-housing-crisis
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Brendan Dawe
about 2 months ago
The 'massive unpopularity' of the physical change is wildly overstated. It's not an unlimited effect but broadly speaking Housing is Popular. For ex, the Eby Government has changed course on many things, but making cities permit housing is something their pollsters tell them they win on
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Stephen Quinn
2 months ago
This is still my favourite one:
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"We're faced with an impossible choice" said Ald. Marguerite Ford. "If we don't rezone this, we will delay a much needed facility. It we do, we will change the neighbourhood." (This was not actually a hard choice though. It's a children's hospital!)
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2 months ago
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Brendan Dawe
2 months ago
It’s unfortunate then that a handful of neighbours with too much time on their hands have decided to dedicate themselves to raising a stink about having another hotel in the neighbourhood. Somehow this will destroy the neighbourhood, but I think grandma might stay there
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It's much easier to oppose hotels when you're the sort of person who has your own guest room for friends and family to come visit. But here in Vancouver in 2026, most of us do not have an extra bedroom.
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Bryn Davidson - Lanefab
2 months ago
Density without displacement. Accessibility as a standard feature. No land assembly required. Efficient and (more) affordable. Light, Air and a Social Stair.
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Jens von Bergmann
2 months ago
Could not help myself, ran the numbers. Scrapping the Capped Assessment Program (similar to California's Prop 13) so that incumbent homeowners pay the same effective rates as newcomers or renters would yield a substantial tax revenue increase for HRM. The CAP has grown into a large fiscal liability.
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Brendan Dawe
2 months ago
"we have to spend many months to change the city bylaws to allow the school to be 18 feet taller" is actually a demonstration of how planning in British Columbia as practiced is unfit for needs. Write the mayor and councillors and tell them Not One Inch
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Brendan Dawe
2 months ago
Proposal: any pedestrian pushing an occupied baby carriage should be allowed to issue a limited number of roadside summary driving bans every month
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mtsw
3 months ago
An underrated factor in "why don't people in wealthy societies have more kids" is changing societal norms that now expect even older kids to be chaperoned by an adult any time they are in public, and to be chauffeured by a parent as their only means of transportation
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Bryn Davidson - Lanefab
3 months ago
Update: we’ve had a project canceled due to the recent zoning changes that restrict what size lane house can go behind an existing single family home
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Sightline Institute
3 months ago
The United States has the fewest elevators in the rich world, with Canada only a bit ahead. We teamed up with
@uytaelee.bsky.social
of About Here Videos to investigate why, exactly, North America sucks at elevators.
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North America's Elevator Problem
YouTube video by About Here
https://youtu.be/Or1_qVdekYM
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Abundant Housing Vancouver
3 months ago
OneCity is holding a contested mayoral nomination, and their two candidates, William Azaroff and Amanda Burrows, were on the Cambie Report. Link to the full episode below. Here's what they had to say about housing (see follow up posts for alt text):
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The Toys R Us sign that is on another, now-defunct , sign, is a part of Vancouver's heritage. We must add a third layer of signs. And, then, in our grandchildens' time, perhaps, a fourth.
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