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@JCraig_Miles @ridge_line1 @cognitivecurio "I’m fine with residents having voice" ah yes, as opposed to for profit developers building for people who aren't even residents. I guess that is what happens to a city when, as commonly overheard amongst strangers "no one we meet actually grew up in Vancouver"

@ridge_line1 @cognitivecurio I’m fine with residents having voice but admin and #yyccc should strictly be facilitators not involved parties. Biggest issue I have is I see nothing coming back in exchange for changes they want. Taxes aren’t lower. Services aren’t better. Infra isn’t improved. It’s all worse

The thing I marvel at with the whole blanket rezoning affair is that advocates, city and #yyccc treat it like some kind of negotiation where opponents have to keep giving things up while I have yet to say any reciprocal action on their part. What are we getting in exchange?

@Mill_Moron @rob_siglio I know several millennials in the top 1% of income earners who can't afford the west side house their average "doctor" parents bought, or their average tradesman grandfather bought before them. The problem isn't a lack of houses - it's the $5m that just happens to bid them up.

@Mill_Moron @rob_siglio He's not wrong about these basic facts though. The problem is that all this building was still not enough to offset the demand and the prices people are ABLE to pay - an ability which is completely detached from actual local wages... maybe we address that reason first.

UBC prof doesn't like my argument, tells me to "do yuor own research", then blocks me. Very intellectual stuff out here 👌

@rob_siglio @Mill_Moron He doesn't need to do any - they other guy made a typo and therefore lost teh argument.

@Mill_Moron Well, how is yuor research going?

@vancolour @HiinsJ63015 mo dont meme

@HiinsJ63015 It’s “you’re”, dummy.

Branding it ‘Unite the Right’ is certainly… a choice, given the recent history attached to that phrase. I wonder what other names were on that short list? Make BC Great Again?

@SethBorman @DouglasTodd @CityHallWchVAN Reduction in water consumption? I doubt there is any major city in Canada which using less water today than it was 20 years ago.

@mt_pheasant @DouglasTodd @CityHallWchVAN In reality, where the rest of us live, the reduction in water consumption over the last 50 years mean a city is often short of sewer water to treat, which can mean dumping bleach or water into the sewer to keep it operating.

Cartoon: The Multiplex "There's no sewer capacity on this street, so we're using an old-fashioned method." #vanre #vanpoli cityhallwatch.wordpress.com/2026/03/21/ucs… via @CityHallWchVAN

@mario4thenorth It's a bailout for developers, not price relief for Canadians.

Am I going to be the guy, that breaks it to Canadians, that the $130,000-no-HST housing rebate, announced today by Ford and Carney, has NO citizenship requirement? During a housing crisis. FOR CANADIANS. Come on bro 😭

@Hutchyman The "property ladder" was the big lie that the RE industry sold them. The notion of a "ladder" only makes sense when prices rise at the same rate as buying power, and these kids can't get 2nd loans from their parents, interest rates are higher, SFH prices not coming down, etc.

#VanRE Trapped in their starter homes: Canada has a second-time homebuyer problem. Today, our cities have a large cohort of young first-time homebuyers who are trapped, having no way to move up into family-sized homes. theglobeandmail.com/investing/pers…

@SydneyYIMBY @Psimocybin7 Maybe look at demand before forcing long time working residents to compete with whomever and whatever else is driving up prices, instead of foolishly slapping up crap and praying the invisible hand brings prices down.

@mt_pheasant @Psimocybin7 Yes we expect land to go up, but in Sydney apartments with near zero land component also increase in value after initial purchase. The structures themselves should be depreciating over time, but they’re not because there’s a scarcity premium as we don’t build enough.

You don’t buy a car expecting it to go up in value. Why is housing any different?

@CDN_Dimension You are mixing up the problems with market/non-market with capital controls regarding housing investment, and the problem of "money earned from local wages" competing against "foreign money, laundered money, low interest loans, etc"

Vienna has fewer homes per capita than Vancouver. By supply-and-demand logic, the Austrian capital should be more expensive. Yet prices are 50% lower. Why? Because over half of Vienna’s housing is non-market. The issue isn’t supply. It’s commodification. canadiandimension.com/articles/view/…

@drkayotica @CityHallWchVAN If you are an anti-car, urbanist nut, that's actually a Good Thing™

@CityHallWchVAN What an absolute mess the city is created by removing the pull ins for the bus. When buses now stop right in the middle of the road to board or having passengers get off, it creates traffic gridlock on main Street... Which is already bad.

Permanent plaza construction at Main & 14th is coming along

@KMann333934609 @ManyBeenRinsed @theJagmeetSingh "All options are on the table!"

@ManyBeenRinsed @theJagmeetSingh Yes he filled his pockets with that pension

Prime Minister Singh has the audacity to lift weights after being booted from politics after giving Canadian citizens free national dental care and phamacare programs. How dare he. 😤

@AnasInPalestine @vicpdcanada Regular taxpayers have more than "heard" their free speech and don't want to pay to hear it anymore.

@vicpdcanada This is an attempt to shut down Canadian citizens' duty to exercise free speech and pressure their government state to end its complicity in genocide. It's happening all across Canada under pressure from israel-influenced officials in our police force and government. Shame!

After 126 weeks and 10,000 hours of support, VicPD is asking that protestors peacefully conclude the marching portion of their weekly Palestine demonstrations, due to the unsustainable strain on our officers. We strongly encourage organizers and participants to remain on the Legislature lawn, where the environment is safer and more controlled. Read more: engagement.vicpd.ca/vicpd-announce… #vicpd #yyj #policing @ChiefVicPD

Canada spent $5.1 BILLION fixing a broken payroll system (Phoenix). Now we're about to spend $4.2 BILLION+ replacing it with Dayforce. I went through every lobbying record, every communication report, and every revolving-door hire to identify potential conflicts of interest. Here's what I found. 1/🧵

@dkeeping @Khelsilem Says the guy with wide open spaces and view of nature in his profile picture

@Khelsilem Loving the NIMBY rage!

It follows the Squamish Nation's bylaws for building heights since it's within the Squamish Nation's jurisdiction. But also: • Matches heights for dozens of buildings within 2 km • Vancouver eliminated all minimum parking requirements city-wide as of June 30, 2024.

@ZenPigeon @Khelsilem Whatever the chief felt like at the time

@Khelsilem "It follows the Squamish Nation's bylaws" 🤣🤣🤣 So...whatever they feel like at the time.

@Castantine @sam_d_1995 Homey, I build large projects all the time. It's called "value engineering" and "will the city get mad if we don't make it look like the picture". My favorite part of this BS are the bogus shadow studies, which are especially important for the grey 6 months of the year.

@mt_pheasant @sam_d_1995 This is reality? Homey, I live in a city where large projects are built all of the time. The buildings usually look very similar to the renderings. The landscaping takes 10-15 years to fill out because it actually has to grow and mature.

based. what did y’all think “land back” meant? vibes? papers? essays? losers.

@SomeGuyInBC @MetroVancouver Your tax dollars are subsidizing infrastructure so millions of people can move here and you can fight over the same limited resources, like fresh water, parks, beaches, and even sunlight coming in your backyard. Did they build more reservoir capacity?

@MetroVancouver My tax dollars also go to boondoggle's like the North Shore WWTP.

Your tax dollars help deliver projects that will increase the delivery of high-quality drinking water to the region, like the Annacis Water Supply Tunnel. Help shape what comes next. Take the 2027 Budget survey (open until March 27, 2026). ow.ly/WHZj50Ymb2J

@JonFlynnREstats Remember kids: That -5% comes out of YOUR equity, and you still owe the bank whatever you paid for it. There are a lot of very sore millennials who put down even 20% and have basically seen that wiped out.

If you live in Ontario your house is worth 5% less this March than it was last March. I’m guessing it will be worth at least 5% less next March too.

@BenRabidoux The bubble will not pop with a bang but will wither with that flatulence sound a balloon makes.

For the first time since the 1990s, 🇨🇦 house prices are negative on a 5-year basis. 3 implications: -Harder for borrowers to refinance/extend amortization = no payment relief -Harder to switch lenders = sub optimal renewal terms -Less equity = fewer trade-up buyers, removing a key source of market liquidity