Hello. Welcome to the weekly newsletter of curated headlines about city building, urban planning, real estate development, economics, and other eclectic matters in the Vancouver region and from the rest of the world. Happy beginning of spring and take care.
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ECONOMY / TAXES
C1 BC Economic Briefing
Enhancing Economic Growth Through Federal Personal Income Tax Reform
Ottawa should abolish Indian Act tax exemptions
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BUSINESS / JOBS
A utopian strand of economic thought is making a surprising comeback
Staggering income needed to afford Vancouver house prices jumps by thousands
BC employment slows, local home prices hold as market balances
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HOUSING AFFORDABILITY
Lack of private-sector investment is at the heart of Canada’s economic, stock-market mediocrity
Marxism Won’t Solve Canada’s Rental Housing Crisis – Despite What Ottawa Thinks
We all deserve affordable homes and a stable climate – and that is achievable
The cult of houses as investments remains strong
Ten economic facts about rental housing
Across Metro Vancouver, more non-market homes coming from for-profit builders
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RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE
How ‘Filtering’ Opens Up Affordable Housing
Canada has plenty of good housing ideas. They need to be turned into action
Bumpy recovery for Canada’s housing market
Lower Mainland presale market heating up in 2024
Bedrooms without a view could be Toronto’s new normal
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COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE
'You Can Imagine The Pressure': Commercial Appraisers At The Center Of CRE's Price Reckoning
Vancouver top city in Canada for commercial real estate investment, says report
Greater Vancouver Investment Market Report Year End 2023
Metro Vancouver Retail, Office, and Industrial Leasing News
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BUILDING / DEVELOPMENT
The hottest trend in U.S. cities? Changing zoning rules to allow more housing
Vancouver neighbourhood divided: High-density housing vs. better amenities
Social housing has become a matter of enclaves and micro-sites
Ontario Liberals Push For Fourplexes Province-Wide In Proposed Housing Bill
The plan to turn Broadway into one of Vancouver's greatest streets
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URBAN PLANNING
PlanGPT: A New AI Tool Specifically for Planners
The Dynamically Priced City
Too Many Planning Layers Stall Project Approvals
Plan to remove 160,000 Stanley Park trees faces growing criticism
Is Automated Enforcement Making U.S. Cities Safer or Just Raising Revenue?
Want a Better 15-Minute City? Ask Residents What They Really Want
Vancouver appoints chief planner after six-month vacancy
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TRANSPORTATION
Electric Vehicles and the Demand for Electricity
These were voted the worst times and places to drive in Metro Vancouver
Why can’t transit projects be delivered on time?
5,000 commercial truck parking spaces needed in Metro Vancouver
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RESOURCES / ENVIRONMENT
Emissions impossible? How the transport sector can help make the 2050 net-zero goal a reality
'We should abandon the fantasy of phasing out oil and gas': Saudi oil CEO
BC could hold vast reserves of natural hydrogen
'A big deal': BC utility regulator rejects plan for mandatory gas hookups
We rely heavily on lithium batteries – but there's a growing array of alternatives
In BC’s forests, a debate over watershed science with lives and billions at stake
This is what happens when a wind farm comes to a coal town
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INDUSTRIAL LANDS
Influx of new supply increases industrial availability rates amid slower pre-leasing
Nine storey office and industrial building proposed near Vancouver Olympic Village
Groups warn of $1 trillion cost for electrification of America’s trucking industry
Red Sea attacks could push more cargo to Port of Vancouver after record year: CEO
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RETAIL SHOPPING
Retail Insider the magazine Volume 2 Issue 4
The Mall Is Dead — Long Live the Mall
Exploring the New Economics of Downtown
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OFFICE WORK
How Not to Love Your Ideas to Death
The secret to career success may well be off to the side
You’re not as smart as you think you are
How humans became intelligent
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POLITICS / PEOPLE
Canada's Right Is Moving Further Right—And Closer to the U.S.
Truth: Political leaders lie because it can be good for their careers
How the abnormal gets normalised – and what to do about it
Key BC harm reduction initiatives were beset by challenges, ineffective implementation
The Only Force Stronger Than Polarization? Rising Home Prices
As more people choose the single life, researchers ask: are they happier?
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OTHER / MISC
When Process Is The Enemy Of Progress
This River Is a Model
Vladimir Putin’s gold strategy explains why sanctions against Russia have failed
The EU should stop ‘westsplaining’ and listen to its smaller eastern members – they saw the Ukraine war coming
UBC researchers think they’ve found a new population of killer whales in the Northeastern Pacific
This Day in History, 1894: A drunken monkey turns on his Vancouver bartender
Video: Inside a Chinese Ghost Town of Abandoned Mansions
Video: The BMW Story