Frances Bula
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Vancouver, BC, Canada
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Vancouver Community College eyes Broadway site for student housing
3,300-apartment development is one of the largest developments proposed for Vancouver’s Broadway Plan → Read More
Vancouver explores tax relief for small businesses
The experimental program will reduce Vancouver city taxes for about 1,360 commercial and industrial properties by amounts as high as $12,000 → Read More
Canada’s foreign home buyer ban slows rental housing construction
A 1,000 unit apartment planned for downtown Toronto by developer Colonia Treuhand is in limbo because of Canada’s foreign buyer ban → Read More
Property tax increases in Vancouver, Surrey set to soar as local councils adjust city budgets to inflation
The unprecedented double-digit increases are going to new policing costs and investment in basic city services → Read More
Vancouver rescinds 25 cent recycling fee for coffee cups
City council says policy was met with complaints from restaurants, public and homeless → Read More
Competing visions for a redevelopment of Vancouver’s waterfront
Many of Vancouver’s stakeholders have begun to envision how the area between the backside of Gastown and the Burrard Inlet shore can be a place for the downtown to expand and redefine itself → Read More
Vancouver city planners propose zoning changes to cope with housing crisis
The potential changes would allow four to six homes on any residential lot → Read More
B.C. boosts incentives for rentals with new $500-million fund
Fund will allow non-profits to leverage purchases of apartments and protect renters from evictions or big rent hikes, says Premier David Eby → Read More
Plans for new Surrey, B.C., police force on hold until next year
The potential move could be more costly and affect the RCMP in other jurisdictions across the country → Read More
Vancouver, B.C. government make housing announcement in downtown eastside
Two temporary housing projects in Vancouver will provide single-room dwellings for 90 people at two locations for the next three years to help address city’s housing crisis → Read More
Vancouver’s Chinatown condo project to be reassessed
The application for a condo building at 105 Keefer Street by a major development company in the Beedie empire generated a wave of opposition when it was first proposed in 2017 → Read More
Thousands of Vancouver housing units in limbo in tug-of-war between developers, city planners
Vancouver City Council’s desire to hasten new home building overtaken by city planner’s refusal to veer from the rules → Read More
City of North Vancouver blows past ambitious housing and rental targets
The small municipality of fewer than 60,000 residents saw 1,768 rental apartments and townhouses plus 2,830 condos and houses completed in the half-dozen years up to 2021, according to statistics provided by the city → Read More
Vancouver’s vacancy tax is capturing some of the wrong people
Many Vancouver property owners complain the vacancy tax is too rigid, too broad and too punitive → Read More
Critics pan police report estimating money spent on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
Vancouver police are calling for a new body to oversee, scrutinize and co-ordinate all the social services that go into the Downtown Eastside, but among the many critics of the report were the provincial Public Safety Minister, and Vancouver’s new mayor → Read More
B.C. farmland crusader calls it a career after 51 years on Richmond city council
Since first being elected to council in 1968, Harold Steves has earned praise from opponents and supporters alike for his conservation and environmental work → Read More
Vancouver council prioritizes hiring police officers, psychiatric nurses to tackle prolific crime
New mayor’s chief of staff says plan to hire 100 new police officers, 100 new psychiatric nurses will require co-ordination with the province, Vancouver Coastal Health and the city’s police department → Read More
Vancouver has an affordable-housing problem. Can Vienna’s success offer solutions?
Implementing European affordable-housing models in Canada would require overcoming global economic challenges and all the unique obstacles that are particular to this country → Read More
RCMP officer killed after stabbing in Burnaby, B.C.
The province’s Independent Investigations Office has also been called in → Read More
Vancouver mayor-elect Ken Sim prioritizing hiring police officers and mental health nurses
Sims says there will be no decisions about next year’s budget or tax increases until Vancouver’s financial documents are thoroughly vetted → Read More