affordable housing

By YEORGIOS PRONTZOS Young Canadians need to invest in democracy, otherwise it could disappear faster than their money in a crypto scam.   Canadian identity has often been shaped by the ways we differ from our southern neighbours.…

By TUAN TRAN A rezoning proposal for the Langara Family YMCA highlights the Langara area’s lack of affordable student housing when compared to other Metro Vancouver institutions. The development proposal for the YMCA recently changed…

By Tyson Burrows New Westminster residents are in conflict over a proposed six-storey development on the 800 block of Sixth Street. On March 16, the project reached New West’s advisory planning committee and was recommended for…

Reported by Palak Klaire  With no campus housing nor college website to help find housing, many Langara students admit they are forking out more rent than they can afford or living far from campus. While  BCIT and Kwantlen Polytechnic…

Vancouverites could see rental-only zones recommended later this year to the City of Vancouver in efforts to provide minimum wage-earning citizens with a chance to enter the rental market, according to the Vancouver mayor. 

Innovative housing project comes to Port Moody

A new artist-run studio in Marpole is facing an uncertain future as the building’s impending sale is making it difficult to attract enough artists to make ends meet.

Mint Tiny Homes, a Delta-based tiny home manufacturing company, offers a cheaper alternative to get into the market, with prices starting at $50,500. Attendees of the BC Home and Garden Show had the chance to walk through three different…

Reported by Becca Clarkson With temporary housing for Vancouver’s growing homeless population planned on a South Vancouver site that will be redeveloped in the next five to 10 years, those depending on that shelter will find themselves…

Reported by Alyse Kotyk, Bonnie Lee La Madeleine, Caitlin O’Flanagan, Emelie Peacock, Chelsea Powrie and Jessica Purver A Vancouver couple found themselves in a rental nightmare this fall, as they struggled to navigate a market that has…