Incredibly short-sighted and irresponsible, and completely disconnected from the real values & priorities of Vancouverites. This move would be awful not only for Vancouver, but also for all the cities that Vancouver’s leadership has inspired over decades of North American sustainability leadership.

"The golden age of jerks" (sound on)

I'm in Taiwan! As a fun little project I've been making videos about Taipei urbanism & what Vancouver can learn. Don't use TikTok or Insta? Want to experience vicarious cringe? No problem! I'm embedding the vids at my website! Link below! Here's a silly entry (sorry Bsky cropped it)

Fascinating how the "median single-family home" gets picked up as the easy basis for tax comparison here, despite lack of representativeness overall. e.g. note that's a distribution reflecting only ~15% households in Vancouver - skewed toward wealthiest - compared to closer to ~40% in PoCo.

Ken Sim and ABC are going to take an axe to funding arts and services in Vancouver all for the sake of a political stunt

The hierarchy of controls in this article is excellent!

Someone in my neighborhood got FED. UP.

I've been having fun making TikTok videos! Connecting with people over housing and urbanism, all while embracing a bit of cringe? That is very up my alley. Here's a few of my recent favourites, embedded in a webpage to make 'em easy to view: pwaldkirch.ca/2025/10/31/t...

We're all laughing at this, but irl NIMBYs have destroyed more cities than Godzilla, just sayin'!

Vancouver council member Brian Montague got very worked up the other day, claiming without evidence that Vancouver police regularly ask drivers to not drive on Halloween. They don't. He was responding to a notice from @lucymaloney.bsky.social, which would have asked the city to do so.

Happy Halloween, here's one of my favourite movie death scenes (from The Abominable Dr Phibes) youtu.be/OvgYTXOw6EQ?...

In voting down this motion, Clr Montague indignantly claimed that the VPD "puts out a message telling drivers to avoid non-essential travel every year" and that to suggest otherwise is "outright false." Can anyone find evidence of this? Here's their PSA for this year:

Over the past few years, I've frequently criticized Brian Montague for living in North Vancouver. Today I'd like to formally issue an apology. It turns out he actually lives in Kelowna.

Talking about making roads safer with Simi Sara! Speed and Intersection cameras are not a "scam", and it is unfortunate that media chooses this framing when proven lifesaving measures, at worst, marginally inconvenience dangerous drivers. megaphone.link/CORU7818382862

Maybe the reason Brian Montague brought forward the amendment to kill this Halloween safe streets motion is that he's still recovering from the time children "intimidated" him with their climate change art. vancouver.citynews.ca/2024/11/27/v...

Honestly gobsmacked by ABC's referral of my road safety motion to staff. Halloween is the most dangerous night of the year for CHILDREN. This was an attempt to use an existing process to keep CHILDREN safe, and ABC punted it to staff w/o offering an alternative. Really, guys?

Vancouver's survey on the draft Official Development Plan closes TODAY (Oct 29), so it's not too late to fill it in! Here's the letter we sent to the city about it. And see below for a link to our blog with all the info you need to participate quickly and easily!

New from @Sightline.org: Small apartment buildings, everywhere, are how we can deliver homes in years rather than decades. 1/2

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...

The city's survey on the draft Official Development Plan (which is supposed to guide planning for the next 30 years!) closes TOMORROW, Wed October 29. Want some help filling out the survey? Don't worry. We got you. With our help it'll only take a minute! www.abundanthousingv...

Our Halloween message from Vision Zero Vancouver! 🎃 A little hard to hear, ironically because of all the cars

The shawarma guy was so busy so without thinking I said "everything" and only then realized that included PINEAPPLE now I feel I've made a huge mistake

Their website does a great job getting into the many building code & zoning barriers that prevent Canadians from having what many Europeans take for granted. impossibletoronto.ca... 2/3

Better than Backyards: "Impossible Toronto" calls for gradual development of courtyard blocks in detached house areas. 1/3

Tonight! Open house - Vancouver's Official Development Plan (6-8 pm) Community Hall at Kitsilano Neighbourhood House, 2305 W 7th Ave Link in thread.

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

It's not easy to make a song that's over 400 years old sound urgent and contemporary, but Freddie Wadling's performance here gets there. (My favourite performance of a great song, I found it years ago but thought it had been taken down--tonight the algo did me a kindness.) youtu.be/AuYnnTr_KMo?...

This sure looks like a way of pushing staff to quit Remember, the city is also quietly offering "voluntary separation packages" with unspecified incentives as the mayor demands 0% property tax increase More great work by my friend @isabellazavarise.bsky.social www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

This is from the city's info boards on the draft UDP, which is basically just the latest step in the Vancouver Plan, which started in 2019 and has achieved nothing so far, and I'm just really struggling to believe that anyone in the planning dept actually believes we're in a housing crisis

Brilliant video from @ardenenglish.bsky.social explaining why right on red is so dangerous for pedestrians, and why BC should get rid of it. Please watch! youtu.be/AqDV13zzMao?...

It is interesting to me that global chose to censor the license plate.

There's surveillance footage of this that has been posted in other news articles, I won't share it because it's very disturbing, but the car driver hits the mother TWICE: stops after hitting the mother & child, then while she's lying in the road the driver goes again and drives over her. Murderous

I live close to this intersection and actively avoid it because it feels so dangerous. Cars rip down 16th, don't stop for pedestrians... Of course, the city does nothing. Pedestrian safety just isn't a priority. And this will only get worse with the upcoming budget cuts. Heartbreaking :(

I'm starting to think we actually aren't trying to build more housing

I was originally optimistic that Gregor Robertson's experience as a municipal politician would make him a good housing minister. My optimism is...waning. www.biv.com/news/details...

As a certified CanLII lover, it's a special pleasure to have my Master's thesis available there! I dedicated it: "To Vancouver, the people who call it home, and especially the people who will call it home tomorrow. Let’s make sure they can."

"The basic math of cities is pretty simple: density drives efficiency. It’s the most important strategic shift the city can make to improve long term fiscal outlook...Concurrently, you cannot keep market housing relatively affordable without abundant supply" 💯💯💯

Shout out to all the critical geographers and academic anti-YIMBYs who threw in with this crowd a few years ago. Can't wait to see you all vindicated when the revolution finally happens.

Anyone remember how there was a whole task force to find specific savings in the city budget?

I'm a simple man. I see a graphic novel adaptation of Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis, I buy a graphic novel adaptation of Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis.

AHV's regular happy hour is tonight--hope to see you there!

Only have time to (or just prefer to) listen to short stories? The podcast episode for "The Cancer Wolves" by Fiona Moore is up. clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_10_25a/ or wherever you like to listen to podcasts clarkesworldmagazine.com/podcasting/

Sadly the new provincial reforms to their multiplex system appear to continue to NOT apply to the City of Vancouver. The Province continues to ignore Vancouver's housing shortage, the epicenter of the provincial housing crisis.

In 2022, Ken Sim said line item budget comparisons were the cornerstone of his budget policy if he got elected mayor. In 2025, he voted against it happening for a budget presentation with potentially $100 million in cuts because his newly appointed city manager told him no.

Hey the meme account is posting truth bombs y'all

The weather is cooling down, the leaves are falling, and the October Happy Hour with Abundant Housing Vancouver is coming up! Thursday, Oct 9 Rogue Wetbar in Waterfront Station Starting 5 pm See you there!

Vancouver City Council approved establishment of standardized apartment zoning districts today, as well as a significant City initiated rezoning in the Broadway Plan and Cambie Corridor areas. I delivered these remarks in closing during the item at Council:

Ok the debate and vote on these mild zoning changes is finally up! This is a small step in the right direction: less pointless discretionary opportunities for NIMBYs to veto housing. All this does is make /some/ zoning consistent with existing policy and plans. Let's see how this goes!

I really don’t like to criticize my fellow local governments, but I am OUTRAGED at this decision. This week, Sidney rejected its one and only Extreme Weather shelter, which was aimed at the dozen or so homeless SENIORS in the town. All paid for by BC Housing. www.timescolonist.com/local-news/s...