Felt bad for a staffer getting harangued by a local NIMBY who wanted to litigate this and the local Safeway redevelopment. I wanted to stick around a bit longer but my blood was boiling just listening to them and I worried I might say something I'd regret. These events are not very fun.

Dropped by an open house for Vancouver's social housing rezoning. I think it's one of the biggest policy changes we've ever made, but it didn't seem all that busy. If you only write the city once this year, do it for this initiative www.shapeyourcity.ca/social-housing

Vancouver's social housing initiative

Making Vancouver more inclusive and equitable is a key priority of Vancouver Plan, the city’s long-term land-use strategy. Vancouver’s Social Housing Initiative works toward the critical need for affo...

in the lead-up to the provincial election, I am once again reminded that r/vancouver is very different from the electorate as a whole (even locally)

I’ve got the Vancouver song stuck in my head again youtu.be/hTRM0aEqSP0?...

Vancouver (You'll Always Look Like Home To Me)

YouTube video by Justin McElroy

Interesting how they didn't really make an official distinction between a 1-family house used as a 1-family house and a 1-family house used as an SRO in the old tax records--1938 & 1974 records below. In essence, separating the typology from the use, and focusing on the typology.

Please follow @conradspeckert.bsky.social, the Canadian single-stair guru, who has just joined us here on Bluesky!

I’ve posted my hourlong presentation from NFPA’s single-stair symposium. The speaker notes contain my almost verbatim narration. Feel free to grab from it for any noncommercial purpose, and email me (stephen@centerforbuilding.org) if you have any questions. docs.google.com/presentation...

NFPA Single-Exit Symposium presentation

NFPA single-exit symposium Stephen Smith stephen@centerforbuilding.org September 12, 2024 Quincy, MA Hello everybody. My name is Stephen Smith, I am the executive director of the Center for Building i...

Something about pedestrian crash deaths that’s not mentioned a lot: 1 of every 6 occurs on a freeway www.ghsa.org/sites/defaul...

why would I tell an anonymous account?

Lots of other reasons why they give me the creeps, but I am less concerned than I was about the election outcome from a housing perspective. Also lol I know exactly who wrote this part of the platform, it's fun seeing individuals' hobby horses get turned into policy