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Details: Vancouver Regional Developers Engagement Session – June 10, 2026 National Apartment Council: A unified voice for the private Canadian apartment developer and rental housing provider Derek Lobo, President and Chair of the National Apartment Council invites you to an upcoming in-person Vancouver Regional Developers Engagement Session. This session will bring together private apartment developers and rental housing providers from across the region. Date: Wednesday, June 10, 2026 Time: 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM PST Location: Vancouver (venue & program details to follow) To secure your spot, please reply to this email and include: ali@nationalapartmentcouncil.ca and evana@nationalapartmentcouncil.ca Why This Matters: The National Apartment Council is actively engaged with the federal government at a critical time, with housing at the forefront of national policy discussions. This session is an opportunity to be part of the conversation and help shape the future of purpose-built rental housing in Canada. About This Session: This will be a working session for private apartment developers and rental housing providers to discuss shared challenges and explore collective solutions. It will also provide an update on the National Apartment Council’s ongoing advocacy efforts and future priorities.

Helping out with the June 10th Canadian National Apartment Council event in Vancouver. nationalapartmentcouncil.ca

Food (or drink) for thought!

@PHfloor And yes, gratitude to the surveyors in the 1800s and their 66’ chains that gave us 120’ deep lots, 66’ wide road ROWs and 20’ lanes to take care of the business end of buildings.

@PHfloor Good one!!!

Vancouver passes amendments to the official development plan that contains provisions for higher density like it has forever....

@PHfloor ... "wider view of Vancouver's planning"

@PHfloor Step back a few years and take the wider view of the Vancouver and you'll see the city has been preserved in Harland Bartholomew's 1927 aspic for almost 100 years.

@PHfloor The previous "City Plan" Visions that preserved status-quo with literally no change.

Presenting today for LAI.org along with Jamie Cook and Erik Karvinen!

@PHfloor markets do differ with respect to the friction of approving new apartments, and the financial drag of often onerous development cost charges and levies. How might you model those? On one axis, typical time to achieve planning approval? On another, DCCs as a % of Land Cost (just modelled a development where the going in land cost was $75/sf GFA and the City/Region DCCs were an astounding $85/sf GFA).

Ok LA --here's the playbook to replicate Austin's success. Drive heavy migration into your county. This will push up rents and housing production. If you are lucky, the development industry will oversupply the market just as population growth decelerates. Let's do this.

Big thanks to @BTYGroup for delivering some Construction Cost market intel early this morning! Sharing their report with my network: bty.com/media/2026/02/…

@PHfloor Indeed @PHfloor … and this fellow can simply pony up the $$$$ more for larger space. You can please some people some of the time but …

The plans are for "plexes", townhomes and coach/laneway homes. What were people expecting? And if the plans don't work for you, take things within your own hands.

Perhaps you might imagine an alternative future where you serve your own food when you go out to eat, or operate on yourself when you’re sick ….. Certainly we need to be sensible about targets and the management of immigration but the idea that Canada does not need immigrants is crazy. Graphic by Andy Ramlo of Rennie.

@garymasonglobe We need to build housing for the millions of immigrants that Trudeau and the Liberal government brought in over the last 10 years 🤷‍♂️

Especially when many aren’t buying the condos that already exist!

Gary … first off they are RENTAL properties not “Condo” so perhaps you need to do a little more learning on the topic. “Condominium” is a form of tenure, not a built form. Secondly, you might be surprised to learn these RENTAL buildings offer a mix of market and below-market housing at rents that are affordable to a far wider spectrum of Vancouver households vs purchasing a “Condo”.

Well … first off they are RENTAL properties not “Condo” so perhaps you need to do a little more learning on the topic. “Condominium” is a form of tenure, not a built form. Secondly, you might be surprised to learn these RENTAL buildings offer a mix of market and below-market housing at rents that are affordable to a far wider spectrum of Vancouver households vs purchasing a “Condo”.

How do 28 condo towers in neighbourhood-friendly Kitsilano result in a better city? #vanpoli

Reality Example: 2268-2280 WEST 3RD AVE application by BOP Architects (Marcon Development).

Choose Reality over F.E.A.R.

@DouglasTodd I agree with @markeburge here … I recall YEARS of public engagement on the Renfrew and Rupert area plans.

This is a complete fiction- there was consultation over the course of nearly four years. 81 percent of the feedback coming from people who live in the area. To suggest otherwise means no consultation is good enough. #vanpoli