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We need to address B.C's housing shortage: We are not making sufficient headway to meet demand or create affordability (biv.com)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Wow, another fantastically researched article that thinks building more houses will solve the problem. Thank goodness houses take up no space, are central to where people want to be, won't cause traffic issues and scale with the population!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I mean... They sort of are and sort of do?

  1. Vancouver really isn't that big. It's also really well-connected by transit. Currently, only downtown is dense (and some small pockets around SkyTrain stations), though that's been slowly improving with new developments.

  2. See: New York, Hong Kong, Singapore, London, Tokyo

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

See: New York, Hong Kong, Singapore, London, Tokyo

They all build apartments

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This seems to be a very pedantic argument where you are using the word housing to mean exclusively single family housing were are the author of the article is pretty clearly using the term to mean all forms of housing including condos and apartments.

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