News, analysis and commentary by UBC Journalism students
Vancouver Airbnb hosts renting spare bedrooms in their homes through Airbnb say they are not taking potential housing off the market. As debate continues around the impact of Airbnb[…]
The flood of homeless campers from a tent city at Oppenheimer Park has strained the resources of a homeless shelter in the Downtown Eastside. The Christian-based Harbour Light had[…]
The demolitions of old homes may finally be slowing in Vancouver’s affluent Dunbar neighbourhood, according to citywide statistics and local observations. There have been only 331 construction permits[…]
A new kind of tenant is being lured into Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside: young, educated, indebted—and looking for affordable rent.
Sunrise Co-op wasn’t much to look at when Mariner Janes and his wife first moved in nine years ago. Water was leaking into the building and causing serious[…]
Vivien Bevis and her husband, Richard, don’t see any benefit to taking advantage of their equity and selling their west side home. Now in their late 70s, the[…]
When Wendy Urquhart looks upon her 1930s Dunbar cottage, she sees 80 years of family history. That’s why, when she was forced to sell it last month for[…]
Ami Muranetz signed a $70,000, one-year lease for a 6,500-square-foot house in Shaughnessy last February. Then she set off to find 10 like-minded people to transform the Tudor-style[…]
A pilot program at the University of B.C. to create affordable housing is being challenged because the university is planning to hand out these coveted low-cost units to[…]
Co-ops have been a crucial part of the housing puzzle for 30 years in the Vancouver neighbourhood of Marpole. But as federal funding dries up…
