Frances Bula
@fabulavancouver
Cities are life! Urban issues/politics writer Globe + Mail, various magazines. In the other place at https://bsky.app/profile/fabulavancouver.bsky.social
Parent, Child, Homebuying: "...nearly every single one of my first time homebuyers are getting down payment assistance/gift money from their parents or grandparents." - @fieldsfamwines Since ancient times, this has been the case.
Toronto has 6 months to meet terms of housing agreement with Ottawa, minister says City could lose $30 million in federal funds, previous housing minister warned cbc.ca/news/canada/to…
Breaking news. Vancouver city manager Paul Mochrie, a very level-headed guy who has steered the city through some up-and-down times, is out . #vanpoli
Governments are about to take a massive tax revenue hit from reduced GTA homebuilding. Governments restructured their tax systems to make significant bets on home prices continuing to rise indefinitely. Some tough decisions are coming. blogto.com/real-estate-to…
Office Vacancy Q2 Atlanta 24.8% Austin 28.5% Charlotte 26.1% Chicago 25.3% Cincinnati 25.2% Dallas 26% Denver 25.9% Houston 25% Los Angeles CBD 32.1% Minneapolis 29% Phoenix 27.5% Sam Francisco 34.8% Seattle 31.7% -cushmanandwakefield #commercialrealestate
Here's something good... The local NPR station needed to replace $1.4m in cuts. Anticipating the loss, they had found big donors willing to match up to $700k. They made the appeal this morning, and by afternoon, the community had rallied in sums as small as $5 and saved it.
Orange fencing has gone up at the site of the first Broadway Plan tower approved. But only across two of the properties not all five. ???
America’s cities are becoming empires of one-bedrooms This chart shows how apartment developers have changed the unit types built in Austin over past 25 years From 2000-2005, >50% units built were 2BRs From 2021-2025, <25% were 2BRs
Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim seeks to unlock the development potential of 5 "exceptional" sites currently set aside for industrial uses. This includes the former Molson Coors brewery, Marine Gateway expansion, Railtown, and others. #vancre #vanre #vanpoli dailyhive.com/vancouver/vanc…
Remember the sixplex project Matt Hutchins was building in Spokane? He's now finished construction, and the results are gorgeous
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I feel like this movie was spawned in a petri dish to infuriate a certain kind of twitter vegan yimby
First trailer for Pixar’s next film ‘HOPPERS’ The film follows a girl who transfers her mind into a robotic beaver to help the animals fight the construction plans from the local mayor In theaters on March 6, 2026.
#Lululemon will open a new 300,000 sq ft headquarters office above the former Nordstrom at CF Pacific Centre in downtown Vancouver. An expansion for the company's growth. Replacing the offices of Sony Pictures Imageworks and Microsoft. #vancre #vanre dailyhive.com/vancouver/lulu…
Metro Van apartment starts were up in June, with the fall in City of Vancouver more than counteracted by the rise in the rest of Metro Van. CoV basically hasn't gotten anywhere since 2016 while the rest of metro trend is up a good 5k homes/year in that time.
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Nanaimo considers fencing off city hall to protect from overdose site disorder dlvr.it/TLwrqz
Good to see empirical work on this subject. The theory has been known for a while but now there’s evidence. A number of putatively “pro-renter” policies actually harm renters.
If make it harder to evict people, you increase homelessness. Laws which provide legal counsel to defaulting renters are completely counterproductive, and actually increase homelessness by 13%. Thankfully, there’s a better way. 1/
Higher land prices are not good for America or Americans. It directly reduces housing production. At minimum, foreign entities should pay significantly higher local real estate taxes for sitting on land. If they are investing in or building things … that’s a separate question.
hey can somebody remind me again why this should be legal
The New American Dream: A Spare Bedroom in someone else’s house