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@GrantWarkentin @richardzussman Aren't the Ports mostly under Federal authority?

@richardzussman Ask him if he’s doing anything to end the strike at the grain terminals which is causing Canadian grain to rot in train cars and put the he food security of millions around the globe at risk.

BC NDP leader David Eby is in Cumberland to outline policy on home building. Includes a province wide standard for pre-fabricated homes, reducing the need for extended permitting. #bcpoli

@TheBuckYouWill @richardzussman @Dave_Eby @mikefarnworthbc Wow - thatz a lot of campaign volunteers.

@richardzussman Here is @Dave_Eby's current home solution. NOTHING will change if he's elected - other than MORE misery. Video from Coquitlam - outside of @mikefarnworthbc's office, Sept. 26, 2024

If BC keeps hammering this wedge, we could deliver on supply, affordability & climate targets🎯 These suite @LeckieStudio & @BCollective_CH designs enable onsite or offsite construction. Offsite addresses the #1 supply constraint: workforce. Keep hammering this wedge BC ◹🔨🏗️

@councillorwiebe Lucky Michael. Lucky Metro - the federation, the flora, the fauna (even destructive bipedal mega-fauna)!

Happy to announce that I have landed a role with The Metro Vancouver Regional Parks Foundation to support a regional greenways network, daylight creeks, expand our urban forest canopy, connect more people to nature and give people an opportunity to protect more green space.

Does housing matter if we decimate our climate? Thanks @CityofPoMo 4 recognizing both tinyurl.com/bd84kf4n 🎯BC needs an onsite rain capture & retention target to reduce Xtreme heat death, local flooding, stormwater co$t. 🌳🌧️Trees #1. Rain gardens, green roofs/walls...

@DanWoy 🩷 that as he smiles with his bike in hand "the best vehicles I've driven in the winter." Whitehorse bike/walk mode share is higher than national average.

@KangaRod @benmaritz @maxdubler 1. Food (including pizza) and sufficient ecosystem integrity to generate food 2. Clean water 3. Reasonable air quality 4. Reasonably stable climate

@benmaritz @maxdubler Housing is something people need to stay alive though. Is there anything else like that?

City: You can only sell pizza if every 4th slice is affordable to a low income person. You need to do all the work to verify incomes, and it’s a very onerous process to do so Pizza guy: well the only way I can do that is by raising the prices on the 3 “market” slices, and right now the market doesn’t support that. This means that I won’t open the restaurant, and demand for pizza will grow raising prices for everyone. Maybe in the future things will get so expensive that what you are proposing makes sense. City: Affordable pizza is our top priority Pizza guy: So do these restrictions also apply to the existing pizza restaurants in the city? City: No

@stephenraitz I guess this is why there are no potholes in tropical countries 🏝️😎

@MichaelSchwandt The be$t cooling approach in MOST S&W exposures on Coast is exterior shades that go down when 🌞 hits combined w a fan to blow cool air in when shades are up & 🌞 down. Can reduce indoor temp 10C in extreme heat. AND manage surging power demand, a potential health catastrophe.

"Heat-related emergency visits during the 2021 heat wave were highest in places like Downtown Vancouver, the Downtown Eastside, and parts of South Vancouver — neighbourhoods that tend to have relatively scarce tree canopy coverage." #ClimateEmergency

@__cosmopolite__ 100% . Non-market 🏡 depends on private construction sector. To deliver supply & manage workforce constraints, offsite manufacturing is essential. It will be private. SOME private sector developers drive innovation. Need private/public AND social sector collaboration.

I don’t love this framing. The private sector is absolutely essential to building enough housing and we should legalize it. Nonetheless, I strongly support a public builder, too.

BC Builds can be coupled with a strategy to build a pipeline for offsite construction projects to solve the TOP constraint: labour force. Offsite construction can reduce workforce requirements 50%, schedules 30% & cost 20%. Without offsite🏗️, our crisis will worsen🙄

Good start harnessing taxpayer land! There are >4000 public parcels in BC: muni, prov, fed, hospital, K-12, uni, park&ride.. >600 have developable land (mostly🅿️ lots) and in good locations for >50,000 non-market units. This won't solve 🏡crisis but can. 👀sweet solution 🍬💡👇

BC Builds should be coupled with a strategy to build a pipeline of demand to grow offsite construction to solve the TOP constraint: labour force. Offsite construction can reduce workforce requirements 50%, schedules 30% & cost 20%. 🏗️ Without offsite, our🏘️crisis will worsen😵‍💫

Good start harnessing taxpayer land! There are >4000 public parcels in BC: muni, prov, fed, hospital, K-12, uni, park&ride.. >600 have developable land (mostly🅿️ lots) and in good locations for >50,000 non-market units. This won't solve🏠crisis but can. See sweet solution🍭💡👇

@KeaGru @CityofVancouver @UBC @BC_Government Chart 1 compares global economy-wide productivity (grey 3%), construction (red 1%), manufacturing (green 3.5%) over time. Chart 2 shows projection of Canadian construction productivity is negative. Contrast w manufacturing is instructive. Yes automation/manufacturing is critical.

@AlexBostopolis @CityofVancouver @UBC @BC_Government Are you saying change in construction productivity is around zero? That's an interesting conclusion in and of itself. If anything, with a declining workforce, we're going to have to introduce more automation, economies of scale, etc. to account for labour shortages (and meet tgts

TOP constraint on housing supply is NOT naughty munis. Construction labour force is flatlining while pop surges. #OffsiteConstruction is an ACE card.🙏to nimble n nice #HousingCentral crowd & co-panel Dan Garrison @CityofVancouver Michael White @UBC Lisa Helps @BC_Government

@KeaGru @CityofVancouver @UBC @BC_Government Construction productivity is ~0. CMHC & Stats Can show labour force ups + downs correspond to housing completions. Age disaggregatation shows oldsters retiring + young blood flat. #OffsiteConstruction avoids snow & rain & attracts women, increasing appeal across gender alphabet.

@AlexBostopolis @CityofVancouver @UBC @BC_Government I have no doubt this is correct, but could some of the labour force reductions be explained by adoption of automation and other labour saving tech? Is there a more detailed breakdown of job types?

@bretoncrellin More than 60% of households are 1 + 2 person. Plexifying a large single family into three 1000 foot units works well for many. Yes: TOTAL rent for 3 plexes will be more, but each plex will be less expensive than 1 SF. AND this is inadequate to address affordability & supply.

@AlexBostopolis If it's a land assembly it could be even more housing. But when we densify housing the cost per square foot for the end user goes up not down. So I don't see the benefit of increasing the amount of increasingly expensive homes.

Back and front of an abandoned home waiting to be demolished. I guess a certain mayor's voters got what they wanted. A tasteful, well built and completely livable home being torn down so it can be replaced by something that is none of those things. #vanre #vanpoli

@sarahkirby_yung @BCNPHA @ahma_bc @chfbc I was elated to see so many @CityofVancouver councillors 😁 We almost had quorum: @SarahKirby_Yung @MikeKlassen @PeterMeiszner @AdrianeCarr

Starting week with Housing Central Conference. 🙏@BCNPHA @ahma_bc @chfbc for convening this important event on enabling and growing non-profit housing. Looking forward to great couple days with providers, govt reps and practitioners from across province. #HousingCentral #housing

Medals 4 integrating #AffordableHousing on public land🏅@CityofVancouver housing in firehall, library, school 🏅@UBC 600 beds atop one of N America's busiest bus exchanges. Underutilized public land near jobs can create 10s of 1000s of #Coop #nonprofit & #Indigenous housing units