Danny Oleksiuk
@dannyoleksiuk.bsky.social
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Director with Abundant Housing Vancouver Fellow
@sightline.org
"There are four lights"
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Abundant Housing Vancouver
1 day 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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Brendan Dawe
7 days ago
But more of it is implied by post-1970 urban governance norms and policies that prioritized the physical stability of existing neighbourhoods and valourized opposition to infill development outside of limited redevelopment of surplus industrial land.
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Oh The Urbanity!
21 days ago
I appreciate
@1alexhemingway.bsky.social
’s consistent advocacy for non-market housing without downplaying market housing or the broader supply shortage. By covering not just zoning but also suppressed household formation, this is pretty much the gold standard for left-YIMBYism.
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William Azaroff (he/him)
30 days ago
We need to build homes, everywhere, for all kinds of people. That's how you solve a housing crisis.
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Bryn Davidson - Lanefab
30 days ago
No such thing as an "Orphan Lot" any more. Single stair stacked flats can fit on small lots (like this 50x70 corner lot). This could be 12 small 1Br, or six family size flats. Just allow 50% lot coverage and 3FSR and away you go.
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Alex Bozikovic
30 days ago
Most of Vancouver is de facto a gated community for rich people. It’s been said many times, but can’t be said often enough. Luckily, this is going to change!
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Payton Chung
about 1 month ago
Smallplexes are "faster, cheaper, a better use of construction workers’ time, and a big opportunity for small local builders... help more people find homes this decade, not the next." h/t
@sightline.org
@dannyoleksiuk.bsky.social
www.sightline.org/2025/10/28/t...
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Josh White
about 1 month ago
A significant move Vancouver made this week was moving forward with enabling novel Single Egress & Space Efficient Stairs. Led by the great team in Development, Buildings & Licensing, supported closely by Vancouver Fire Rescue Service; and Planning this will be transformative for low-rise apartments
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William Azaroff (he/him)
about 1 month ago
As a non-profit housing CEO, here's why the Social Housing Initiative mattered. It offered a real pathway to build homes for our neighbours in need, without half a million dollars in paperwork. Without 8-12 months of unnecessary delays for projects Council never rejects anyway.
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Peter Waldkirch
about 1 month ago
Come say hi at
@ahvancouver.bsky.social
's Holiday Party! When: Monday, December 8, starting at 5 pm. Come by whenever, the bar is open till 10! Where: the Alibi Room Note that this is happening on Monday instead of our regular monthly happy hour on Thursday. :)
www.eventbrite.com/e/abundant-h...
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Abundant Housing Vancouver Holiday Party
Join Abundant Housing Vancouver to celebrate this year's housing wins and make plans for 2026
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/abundant-housing-vancouver-holiday-party-tickets-1976024930761
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Why did they keep making surfing movies after James Cameron already made the perfect one: Point Break
about 1 month ago
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Vision Zero Vancouver
about 1 month ago
Have any of you experienced something like this (or worse) due to dangerous conditions caused by a driver turning right on red? Please send us photos or videos! Reply here, DM us, or send us an email: contact(at) visionzerovancouver .ca
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Yonah Freemark
about 1 month ago
Interesting new working paper that studies chains of movers after the construction of a new apartment building in Honolulu. Paper finds that the project resulted in the opening up other, lower cost, housing on the island, benefiting the housing market overall.
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https://uhero.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/UHEROwp2503.pdf
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M. Nolan Gray 🥑
about 2 months ago
The full time job of the modal person with the title of "city planner" in the US is to be a steward of segregation.
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Tonight, Burnaby City Council is considering a motion to reduce the amount of housing you can build, and to increase the amount of parking you must build. I turned on the hearing to hear the owner of a $2M home describe her "horror" at a laneway home next door— a "monstrosity" she called it.
about 2 months ago
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neil21
about 2 months ago
Playing with more Pacific Northwest
#sharedstair
street ideas
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Brendan McEwen
2 months ago
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...
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To Build Fast, Think Small | Sightline Institute
How re-legalizing small apartment buildings would spur the homes city dwellers need now.
https://www.sightline.org/2025/10/28/to-build-fast-think-small/
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Simon Little 🍁
2 months ago
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Push The Needle
2 months ago
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
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I published an article today and Vladdy hit a home run off of Ohtani so overall just a very good day
2 months ago
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Bryn Davidson - Lanefab
3 months ago
@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...
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To Build Fast, Think Small | Sightline Institute
How re-legalizing small apartment buildings would spur the homes city dwellers need now.
https://www.sightline.org/2025/10/28/to-build-fast-think-small/
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neil21
3 months ago
Great
@sightline.org
piece by
@dannyoleksiuk.bsky.social
www.sightline.org/2025/10/28/t...
#newwest
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To Build Fast, Think Small | Sightline Institute
How re-legalizing small apartment buildings would spur the homes city dwellers need now.
https://www.sightline.org/2025/10/28/to-build-fast-think-small/
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Sightline Institute
3 months ago
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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To Build Fast, Think Small | Sightline Institute
How re-legalizing small apartment buildings would spur the homes city dwellers need now.
https://www.sightline.org/2025/10/28/to-build-fast-think-small/
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derek guy
3 months ago
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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Bryn Davidson - Lanefab
3 months ago
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
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John Michael McGrath
3 months ago
when you make the *existing city* illegal to build again today this is the obvious and inevitable consequence:
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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The day is off to a good start
3 months ago
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Just hit a new deadlift personal best at 185kg, reaching my goal for the year with 2.5 months to spare.
3 months ago
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helen (she/her)
3 months ago
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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Bryn Davidson - Lanefab
3 months ago
The New Vancouver Special - 50' lot edition. Accessible single stair flats on a 50x122 lot. 12 family size homes (or) 24 small units.
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Alejandro Kirk is having a great day
3 months ago
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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.
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4 months ago
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Bryn Davidson - Lanefab
4 months ago
Vancouver (Extra) Special 33' lots 4 and 6 storey single-stair buildings. 3Br accessible flats, adjacent to a park. (sketchup / ai render)
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GRIDS Vancouver
4 months ago
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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Julia Carrie Wong
4 months ago
this exists it is called thinking
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Rebecca Bollwitt
4 months ago
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”…
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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.
https://miss604.com/2025/09/things-to-do-in-vancouver-this-weekend-events-september-19-21/
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GRIDS Vancouver
4 months ago
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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Ned Resnikoff
4 months ago
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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Yonah Freemark
4 months ago
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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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.
https://www.lewis.ucla.edu/2025/09/10/97-single-stair-buildings-and-eco-districts-with-michael-eliason-incentives-series-pt-1/
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Ned Resnikoff
4 months ago
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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Peter Waldkirch
4 months ago
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!
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Reflections on an afternoon bike ride home: Are we still enforcing traffic laws? Was there ever a time when we did? Is it troubling to anyone else that people keep speeding and running red lights and texting and killing thousands of people and nothing changes?
4 months ago
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helen (she/her)
4 months ago
It should actually be like 8 stories
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Peter Waldkirch
4 months ago
The CBC did a story on the NIMBYs fighting the rezoning for the elementary school in the Olympic Village. I'm happy with the quote I got in at the end!
youtu.be/Z8j56MEne0c?...
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Olympic Village school project faces community backlash
YouTube video by CBC British Columbia
https://youtu.be/Z8j56MEne0c?si=1jb6v5soUQKk_cyw
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Alex Bozikovic
4 months ago
I find it irritating in Canada to hear people argue that density won’t help with affordability, when it did exactly that for my father‘s immigrant family and many others like them.
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GRIDS Vancouver
4 months ago
I have very little patience for "studios and 1BRs are bad" takes. Basically evidence of low empathy or zero-sum thinking (*everyone* has people in their family+social circles who could benefit from more options and lower price for smaller units)
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Bryn Davidson - Lanefab
4 months ago
Bike / Park Oriented Development (BPOD?) ! A motion from OneCity councilor
@lucymaloney.bsky.social
aims to end the apartment ban next to bike streets and parks! We need liveable density on quiet leafy streets. Don’t like arterial density? Want alternatives to towers? Speak in support sept 17
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Goats on a roof
4 months ago
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Jens von Bergmann
4 months ago
Worried the proposed four storey school won’t fit the character of the neighbourhood? Adding some office space and housing on top of the school fixes that. Somewhere between 12 and 17 storeys is a good baseline, but to be safe we should add a few extra storeys to future-proof it.
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