British Columbia

I for one am shocked that Vancouver's right-wing council didn't vote to allow filthy poors into a neighborhood of mansions.

But let's be clear: a little more housing.

We're not going to even address a housing issue by allowing a few laneway shacks. In that respect, this kind of debate is a waste of time.

I say this as someone whose flooring was "blue paint on plywood"; like, that kind of poor.

We need to build now. We need to build tall, we need to build mixed-use to encaps the services and commercial and maybe some hotel/sro space. We need to build hyper-dense so we can claw back some land for massive shared parks and tennis courts and whatever to cut down on the claustro.

... And we need to absolutely do it now; like, "no new lesser-density wood-frame fire-trap bullshit lowboy half-assed boxes" unless and until density is up.

And anything with 5 min walk of a station now pays a huge prop tax surcharge if they're not a 50+ mixed-use tower, dammit.