Housing
Yesterday, the Mayor’s Developer Task Force released its interim report. On the surface, the four page pamphlet does not provide anything new, containing only...
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On Dec. 18, Vancouver City Council approved the demolition of the Dunsmuir Hotel, a single-room occupancy building with 167 units at the corner of...
Housing
The Park Beach Tenant Collective, members of the Vancouver Tenants Union, and supporters gathered outside Plan A Real Estate Services’ offices in downtown Vancouver...
Action
A building permit application made to the City of Vancouver in September 2022 reveals that landlord Andrzej Kowalski intends to replace the seven rental...
Analysis
In this essay Maria Wallstam and Nathan Crompton provide an overview of the historical evolution of government subsidies provided to Canada’s real-estate sector. State-backed...
Education
Teachers across the Province went on strike yesterday and will continue for the next two days. With over 41,00 teachers walking out, the industrial...
City Hall
This open letter was originally published in the Georgia Straight. It is a response to a letter originally posted here. The time has come...
City Hall
Three dozen seniors living on fixed incomes in the Lions Manor building at 6th and Main have been served with a 45% rent increase....
Housing
Two weeks after Vancouver was once again named one of the most unaffordable cities in the world, Mayor Gregor Robertson has unilaterally appointed the...
Features
Although the Mayor's "affordable housing task force" is unlikely to drive real change, it could have the positive impact of triggering public debate around...
Analysis
This Tuesday, the Vision-controlled City Council struck a developer-run “affordable housing” task force. The public debate surrounding the affordability crisis has begun in earnest...
City Hall
The Mainlander is featured in the civic politics segment every Tuesday morning between 7am-8am on Vancouver Co-op Radio 102.7 This Tuesday Dec 13 2011,...
Gentrification
The new plan for the redevelopment of Little Mountain neighbourhood in East Vancouver has been released to the public. The plan calls for wholesale...
Downtown Eastside
Over the past weeks, Vancouver’s homeless shelters have been over-flowing. In this article Maria Wallstam and Nathan Crompton argue that this year there are...
