Housing

life

Vancouver Needs a Brooklyn, and New West Could Be It

Why I'm glad I made a creative decision to move from East Van.

By Keith MacKenzie, 5 May 2012

news

A Tyee Series

I Can't Own Alone

Buy a rental property? Co-own? There's no easy way. Last in a series.

By Luke Brocki, 22 Mar 2012

news

A Tyee Series

Lessons from Affordable Housing Innovators

Models from Whistler and Toronto take a different tack to up supply. Your attention, Vancouver.

By Luke Brocki, 20 Mar 2012

news

A Tyee Series

The Foreign Ownership Puzzle

Question of who's buying from abroad looms over every Vancouver housing debate. I seek out the experts.

By Luke Brocki, 15 Mar 2012

news

A Tyee Series

Hunting for My Dream Home

A mortgage broker lifts my spirits, but the realtor reality is another story.

By Luke Brocki, 13 Mar 2012

news

A Tyee Series

I Want to Stay!

My journey into Vancouver's real estate racket, and dark nights of the soul about selling out my artist friends. First in a series.

By Luke Brocki, 12 Mar 2012

opinion

A Tyee Series

Vancouver's Demographic Time Bomb

UBC landscape architecture and planning students ponder how to keep the kids, house the old, and share the equity pie.

By Patrick M. Condon, 8 Mar 2012

news

A Community 'Knows its Own Needs Best'

That's the idea behind Literacy Lives, where students create health programs that fill unique service gaps.

By Tom Sandborn, 8 Mar 2012

opinion

A Tyee Series

A City that Runs on Itself

Cut greenhouse gas emissions dramatically? UBC students envision building this into Vancouver's future.

By Patrick M. Condon, 1 Mar 2012

life

'Leave Your Shoes On'

Looking for 'home improvement' ideas? Tour the Olsen's family friendly compound on the Tsartlip Reserve.

By Thelma Fayle, 7 Feb 2012

news

A Tour of Duty in BC's Poverty 'War Zone'

MLA Jagrup Brar's welfare month reveals program's serious failings, but gov't continues to stall.

By Katie Hyslop, 31 Jan 2012

opinion

Criticism of Low-Barrier Shelter 'Superficial': First United

Government moves to phase out church refuge for homeless. Here's their response.

By Ric Matthews and Sandra Severs, 16 Dec 2011

opinion

Attawapiskat: Haiti at 40 Below Zero

New media made us look. Now let's put fixing this 'state of emergency' into context.

By Crawford Kilian, 7 Dec 2011

news

Home Ownership in Vancouver: Out of Reach?

World renowned housing expert Avi Friedman has hope. But improving affordable housing access will take 'radical rethinking.'

By Jackie Wong, 30 Sep 2011

news

Palace of Hell

Two survivors of life in slumlord George Wolsey's Palace Hotel describe a 'regime' of exploitation.

By Tyler Harbottle, 24 Aug 2011

news

Lam and Liu, Architects for Humanity

The dynamic duo are redrawing the edges of design for the public good in Vancouver, BC.

By Jessica Linzey, 12 Aug 2011

news

A Tyee Series

Landlords and Tenants Agree: Market Can't Fix Itself

Policy ideas for dealing with rental crunch. Last in an investigative series funded by Tyee readers.

By Jackie Wong, 12 Aug 2011

news

A Tyee Series

Inside BC's Secretive Landlord-Tenant Dispute Process

Arbitration sounds simple and fair, but sources say it can be anything but. Fourth in a series funded by Tyee readers.

By Jackie Wong, 11 Aug 2011

news

A Tyee Series

Landlords See a High Price to Cheap Rent

Let costs rise without rents keeping pace? That's how you make a housing crunch, say targets of 'renoviction' protests. Third in a Tyee reader funded series.

By Jackie Wong, 10 Aug 2011

news

A Tyee Series

Thrown Out: Fight Grinds on Against 'Renovictions'

'The system is broken' say renter advocates who claim they're trapped in endless legal battles with landlords. Second in a Tyee reader-funded series.

By Jackie Wong, 9 Aug 2011