#SimCity #vanre "The report makes it obvious that the real estate and facilities management department has not been an effective custodian of the public interest and that the city has missed out on many millions in potential income."
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"Developers, investors join to build housing near hospitals for B.C. health-care workers" as told by Joanne Lee-Young via @vancouversun.bsky.social
#vanpoli #vanre
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Wonder if the government will even allow these covenants to stand/have teeth. and what the sales look like should this proceed.
BC also used to have stratas that were owner occupied only, no rentals too bf the gov kiboshed them. #VanRE
Subscribers: “B.C.’s development community wants in on the tax rebate on newly built homes for all buyers, including some investors.” www.theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/... #vanre #tore #itsSpeculationStupid #RECartel #bcpoli #onpoli
If approved, the motion asks City staff to report back within 30 days on the details relating to the legal and legislative hurdles, and whether the program could realistically be rolled out in time for the 2026 tax year or if it would need to wait until 2027 for the earliest implementation opportunity. Here are the annual property tax increases for the municipal portion within the City of Vancouver: 2026: 0% 2025: 3.9% 2024: 7.5% 2023: 10.7% 2022: 6.35% 2021: 5% 2020: 7% 2019: 4.9% 2018: 4.2% 2017: 3.9% 2016: 2.3% 2015: 2.4% 2014: 1.9% 2013: 1.5% 2012: 2.8% 2011: 2.2% 2010: 2.3%
WHERE'S THE MAYOR? Mayor Ken Sim has been marked absent on over a third of all city council votes since he was elected - twice as often as his recent predecessors. Absent Was present to vote 80 60 40 20 0 August break Jan. '23 Apr. '23 July 23 Oct. '23 SOURCE: CITY OF VANCO UV BR August break Jan. '24 Apr. '24 July 24 Oct. '24 N. GRIFFITHS / POSTMEDIA NEWS
Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim, funded by real estate developers, votes along with his ABC caucus members to remove Vancouver renter office In a renter majority city
Which #Vanpoli party gave Vancouver The Biggest Two Property Tax Hikes in Vancouver from 2010 to 2025?
The Big Taxing, Big Spending, Crypto party, Ken Sim and his ABC Vancouver councillors.
2023: 10.7%
2024: 7.5%
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Would @seanorr.bsky.social 's tax bill also tax Domestic Real Estate Speculators like Liberal Housing Minister #OffshoreGregor Robertson? Or Pierre Poilievre? Or Justin Trudeau?
We need #HomesForLocals living in them. Not Foreign Capital, or Domestic Real Estate Speculators
#vanpoli #vanRE
Veteran B.C. journalist and political commentator Kirk Lapointe is making another attempt to enter politics, this time running for mayor of West Vancouver.
More than a decade ago, he ran for Vancouver mayor under the NPA. #bcpoli #vanpoli #vanre
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"'Looming crisis': Vancouver council asked to help save free festivals" as told by @joeruttle.bsky.social via @vancouversun.bsky.social
#vanpoli #vanre
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"Public transportation use in Metro Vancouver dropped in 2025" as told by @sobiamoman.bsky.social via @vancouversun.bsky.social
"One reason for the decline in those municipalities could be overcrowding"
#vanpoli #vanre
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A 650-ft-tall tower is proposed for a stalled project next to Granville Bridge in downtown Vancouver.
It'd be Vancouver's 2nd tallest building today.
A hotel with 206 rooms, plus 480 condos, 152 social housing units & retail/restaurant. #vanpoli #vanre
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A new 156-unit, below-market rental housing complex in West Vancouver is now fully occupied with 316 residents.
It provides local workforce housing, with 65% of residents being public workers, including school teachers & police officers. #vanpoli #vanre
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Vancouver Park Board is seeking a new restaurant/cafe tenant to open at the former Tap & Barrel space at Harbour Green Park on the Coal Harbour waterfront. #vancre #vanre #vanpoli
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COPE councillor Sean Orr is proposing a 7% property tax hike for Vancouver homeowners, but it'd also be paired with a rebate for most.
Hike targets higher-valued properties of $3+ million, multiple owners, and/or non-resident investors. #vanre #vanpoli
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The proposal to create a 250-room floating hotel next to Vancouver Convention Centre is set to be considered by City Council this spring.
It includes publicly accessible features of a restaurant, cafe, shops, spa, and dock. #vancre #vanre #vanpoli
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Metro Vancouver's public transit ridership saw a decline in 2025 due to the population growth slowdown, as a result of federal immigration policy changes.
The primary reason is fewer young adults riding transit, according to #TransLink. #vanre #vanpoli
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A 22-storey social housing tower is proposed for the Vancouver side of Boundary Road.
For a site about a 15-min walk east of #SkyTrain's Joyce-Collingwood Station.
216 units, a childcare facility for 74 kids & retail/restaurant space. #vanre #vanpoli
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2/2 - 87 units against a 10-year Q1 average of 3,900. The 10-year annual average is 15,500 presales across Metro Vancouver. I really hope all levels of government are paying attention. #bcpoli #cdnpoli #vanre
NEW (1/2) - Wesgroup CEO Beau Jarvis just told me Metro Vancouver presales YTD, projects not yet in construction or with a financing commitment, total 87 units. The entire region. 87! Governments keep promising more homes, yet the market is barely breathing. #bcpoli #cdnpoli #vanre
Two towers up to 34 storeys are proposed for the northwest corner of Fraser Street and Marine Drive in South Vancouver.
It'll include 652 rental homes, 15,000 sf retail/restaurant, and a childcare facility for 37 kids. #vanpoli #vanre #vancre
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Moira Stilwell, a doctor and former longtime BC Liberals cabinet minister, will run for Vancouver City Council in the election with the Vancouver Liberals civic party. #bcpoli #vanpoli #vanre
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how many of those land deals were with #Vanre billionaires, and multimillionaire developers who funded the governing party in charge of Vancouver? Or the BC liberals?
#vanpili
Vancouver Aquarium is proposing to reimagine its aging outdoor pools.
The drastic renovation will also transform the pools to include a new walk-through, glass-enclosed, underwater tunnel. #vanre #vanpoli
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#TransLink has approved a 5% fare hike for 2026, starting on Canada Day.
Discounts will be standardized, such as fares paid with cash vs. Compass Card.
And the Canada Line's YVR AddFare will see its first-ever increase, rising by 30%. #vanpoli #vanre
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Multiplexes won't "solve" the housing crisis. They are one piece of the solution.
City of Vancouver should also be upzoning large sections of the city for 6 storey apartment buildings.
#cdnpoli #bcpoli #vanpoli #vanre #housing #NIMBY
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Pete Quily @pqpolitics 2022-10-10 Remember Vancouverites, Mark Marissen's ex wife who he repeatedly campaigned for, Christy Clark during our housing crisis went in a mission to China & Hong Kong to get billionaires and millionaires to invest in Vancouver real estate. Team foreign #Landbanks #vanpoli #vanre OUVER ANKS Need to park your We're opening hun new branches to se NOW! 600 luxury residence located in one of the hottest markets in the world. tit sendering of our latot derelyme! Banque de Terre on Thurlore North Shore News • 2022-10-09 Ex-B.C. Premier Christy Clark introduced herself as a "longtime Liberal" in a robocall urging voters to choose her ex-husband, Mark Marissen, for mayor of Vancouver on Oct. 15. nsnews.com/bc-...
One of the reasons we live in Vancouver we like to look at the mountains
More forests of skyscrapers blocked our views
Will cause more land lift.
Higher rents for renters and retailers, higher costs to buy homes.
Will get more gargantuan #Landbanks and price us out of our city
#vanpoli #vanre
Memeditorialist @ajhtweeting • 10h Replying to @jhwfung #vanre #vanpoli #vanelxn18 landbank developers 600 luxury residences located in one of the hottest markets in the world. Buy one or more of our pre-construction condos and collect a bonus roughly equal to the current anti-spec and anti-foreign purchase taxes. Also, all of our pre-construction condos are pre-licensed with Air BnB. artist rendering of our latest development Banque de Terre on Thurlow
fight for land Banks woman, looking at a condo Tower filled with land banks to stash, cash and screw locals
#COVIDisNotOver... 2023-05-31 ... Good thing #VisionLegacy & successive civic govts and now @KenSimCity ABC have done sweeping blanket upzoning, city wide! Easy peasy now to demovict & build moar landbanks! And EHT on those? Meh #vanre #FAIL #vanpoli Increasing Empty Homes tax for more rental units? Retroactive refunds to RECartel & investors to keep homes empty, increase profits Arny Wise I•l... • .2023-05-30 A compeling article by nom warning that @Vote4ABC ignores staff report to prioritize approval of #rentals & #housing that's #afford...
Vancouverites should ask is the city of Vancouver for the people who live and work in it?
Or is it for the #vanre billionaires and multimillionaire developers and the politicians they own, & domestic real estate speculators like Gregor Robertson, Poilievre, Trudeau & Carney?
#vanpoli
an interesting dynamic among "progressives" this election is that a lot of the incredibly toxic insults that characterized #vanre debates from 2017-2022 has mostly subsided, but it does inform a lot of the current political positioning in ways that are very confusing to normies
