Yesterday, Vision Vancouver approved the application for a tower adjacent to BC Place Stadium. The application is from BC Pavilion Corporation or PavCo, the provincial Crown corporation originally created to manage the Expo 86 site. The tower, one of three PavCo is proposing in total for the site, has created a lot of concern given…
Tag: affordable housing
Affordable rents: There’s a way, just no will
Over the last number of years, Vision Vancouver has been offering developers significant incentives in the form of waiving development cost levies or DCLs in return for a commitment from the developer to provide purpose-built rental housing. (See my June 29 blog on DCLs.) Unfortunately, this has not helped at all in addressing Vancouver’s housing…
Vision’s Vision is Getting Blurry
In politics, as in our personal lives, sometimes we need to revise our expectations. Other times, we have to admit we are wrong; we are required to concede that we simply did not do enough. In the case of Vision Vancouver’s highly touted and infinitely flexible promise to end homelessness, it appears that a rather…
Heather Place Development to Further Erode Affordable Housing
Just wanted to share with you the latest COPE press release. For Immediate Release, March 11, 2013 HEATHER PLACE DEVELOPMENT TO FURTHER ERODE AFFORDABLE HOUSING (Vancouver, BC), On the heels of a recent poll by Insights West showing 40% of Vancouver residents consider affordable housing the biggest issue facing the city, Vancouver City Council is…
Letter to the Vancouver Courier
I submitted this letter recently to the Vancouver Courier in response to this article. To the Editor, Re: “Vision rides high as Vancouverites fume” (Vancouver Courier, Dec. 24) Allen Garr has it 50% right. Vancouverites sure are fuming, and who can blame them? Vision Vancouver has handed tens of millions of taxpayers’ dollars to developers…