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Tyler Olsen @tyolsen.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

One thing we don't talk about much, but is shaping BC political discourse is the fact that house prices today are below what they were five years ago, and continuing decline (and this is before inflation is taken into account)

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Jennifer Maiko Bradshaw @amoralorealis.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Just coming back to say the obvious that Overdose Prevention Sites prevent overdoses and save lives and we need more of them. Dear centre left parties of Van city hall, please get your acts together and work together so we can actually reclaim the extremely important realm of municipal politics

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Emily Hamilton @ebwhamilton.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

If you were doing a comparative analysis of *how building codes are created and enforced* across the U.S. and other countries, which countries would you choose? I'm not looking at specific code requirements across countries. English-speaking countries get major bonus points.

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Sara Hastings-Simon 🇨🇦 @shastingssimon.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I'm really curious what the counter logic is here. Like even if you believe that leaving the 600k bungalow means someone can buy it and live it in for 600k instead of 700k for one of the 4 townhomes that replaces it, what do you think happens with the other 3 people/families? where do they go?

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Sara Hastings-Simon 🇨🇦 @shastingssimon.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ THE ALTERNATIVE IS THE BUNGALOW IS TORN DOWN AND REPLACED WITH A 2-3 MILLION SINGLE FAMILY HOME (ALSO HOUSING IS THE ONE THING THAT DOES ACTUALLY TRICKLE DOWN)

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Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 21/02/2026

I find it hard to justify the continued existence of these preservation boards if they are simply going to stand in the way of important safety upgrades.

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Seth Wynes @sethwynes.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

YIMBYs and urbanists often make the point that you should let people live where they want: near jobs, schools and amenities. I'd like to make a special case for Canada: we should let people live where the weather is good! open.substack.com/pub/carboncr...

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Canada has exactly one city with good weather and it’s too tiny

Or how to cure thousands of Canadians of Seasonal Affective Disorder

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d. reed, crisp & juicy enjoyer 🦀🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇾 @justupthepike.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

our civic association is holding meeting about putting in speed bumps on the street where a driver hit me and my dog—as required by Montgomery County law—and @mcdotnow.bsky.social put my *personal blog that I haven’t updated in 4 years* as the contact. I don’t understand how this happened

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Jennifer Maiko Bradshaw @amoralorealis.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Continuing on my (slow and careful) first time home buyer journey… there are some rare new quadplexes in Vancouver that are JUST on the border of affordable to me. It makes me wonder how many more households like mine could’ve bought homes earlier if quads, townhouses, apartments were legal earlier.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

“In my work with cities, one of my messages that resonates most is that the truth about the cities aspirations isn’t found in its plans and visions. It’s found in its budget. A budget may be the most powerful public policy lever a Council has, and the most authentic one because It reveals so much.”

Slide saying “The truth about a city’s aspirations isn’t found in its vision. It’s found in its budget.”

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Share the Cities Collective @sharethecities.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Building housing is a left issue. Taxing housing to build housing means less housing. Less housing means more pressure on your housing market and higher rents. Build the housing. And don’t let NIMBYs stop or slow us downs

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Jennifer Maiko Bradshaw @amoralorealis.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Semi-regular reminder to absolutely politicize my death when I’m killed by a reckless driver. I trust you all to take that opportunity and make the most of it, whether to advocate for more public transit, Vision Zero, or bike lanes

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tylerbryant.bsky.social @tylerbryant.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

I have the radical view that you should bear personal responsibility for endangering people while you drive

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Cameron Peters @cspeters42.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Honestly they should have jail time for reckless endangerment! I totally agree with the sentiment of course but the Overton Window has shifted so far on automobiles that violence has been normalized and manslaughter has become an acceptable cost.

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Jennifer Maiko Bradshaw @amoralorealis.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Drivers that don’t yield to pedestrians at crosswalks and endanger them should lose their license tbh

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Mockingbird, MPH, CHES @amockingbird.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

I will never understand why townhouses, aka row houses aka brownstones aka the kind of single family home common in many cities, are classified as multi family homes. The new build single family houses have maybe six feet between them, space that could be INSIDE those houses if they were connected.

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Rodney 🚧🚇 @chanface.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Baby’s first streetcar trip

Selfie with my mixed husky dog in streetcar

Dog in the aritculated part of streetcar

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

When house owners talk about how they bought houses due to the "small neighborhood feel" what they mean is "a place where I don't have to see or tolerate renters" because renters are relegated to busy, filthy arterials outside those "small," "quaint" neighborhoods where they own property.

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Jennifer Maiko Bradshaw @amoralorealis.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

It’s honestly wild how few townhomes exist that aren’t right near a highway. We force every bit of density right next to noise and pollution, and keep the quiet areas reserved for the rich who can afford detached houses. I can’t emphasize enough how ridiculously inequitable & regressive this is

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Adam Mongrain @adammongrain.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

I wish there was a way to convey how much of a big deal this is to me, I wish you could feel it. Our work on housing policy, condensed in a single report, has finally been translated to English. You can download it here: carrefour.vivreenville.org/publication/... (Click "Télécharger le PDF")

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Opening Doors | Publications | Carrefour Vivre en Ville

Consultez notre publication « Opening Doors ». Carrefour Vivre en Ville

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Jennifer Maiko Bradshaw @amoralorealis.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

I can get a really nice condo for $900k-1.2M, but a good townhouse is $1.3M+ 😭 if I want to stay in Vancouver or Burnaby near my work I’ve been saving a down payment for 10+ years, skipping even a honeymoon vacation, but anything but a condo is huge stretch 🙃 First-time homebuyer problems

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Jennifer Maiko Bradshaw @amoralorealis.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

My #dota2 Drow Ranger cosplay is finally done! Unfortunately missed the #TI14 cosplay contest due to Covid but hopefully will compete sometime in the future.

Me in a Drow Ranger cosplay shooting a glowy bow

Drow ranger cosplay with a bright moon background effect

Close-up of my Drow Ranger cosplay’s light blue makeup

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 23/09/2025

The BS asymmetry principle: The amount of energy needed to refute BS is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it. Thank you to every science communicator who is doing the almost impossible work of countering misinformation every day. Every single one of you is saving lives!

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Jennifer Maiko Bradshaw @amoralorealis.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

First homebuyer problems in Van… it’s pretty sad that about 70% of the housing options I can afford would basically require me to also get a car to commute to work 🙃 and it’s allegedly a buyer’s market! I have more options than usual…

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Jennifer Maiko Bradshaw @amoralorealis.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

This is so disappointing. This means us poorer folks that can’t afford luxury detached housing is still artificially blocked from nice quiet streets by archaic city zoning.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

The Climate Systems Engineering initiative (CSEi) at the University of Chicago is seeking postdoctoral researchers interested in marine carbon dioxide removal to start in a year. 🌊🧪 Annual salary: $90,000/year Research and travel funding: $10,000/year Relation assistance: $3,000

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CSEi Postdoctoral Researchers Position

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Jennifer Maiko Bradshaw @amoralorealis.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

I really hate the “housing prices are disconnected from local incomes” framing because people immediately jump to “must be NON-LOCALS with more wealth that’s the problem.” When the problem is largely that we haven’t built enough. Higher local/regional income households are outbidding you.

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Jennifer Maiko Bradshaw @amoralorealis.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Just a general reminder that homelessness is hard to solve at the best of times, and basically impossible during a housing supply shortage.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/08/2025

On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout. On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar. This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵

Photo of DOGE staffer Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old white man in a blue pullover, carrying a black backpack.

Photo of 53-year-old Afghan scholar Mohammad Halimi. He is sitting, wearing white pants and shirt with a brown vest.

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Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 21/08/2025

Knowing it needed to adapt to survive the challenges of the 21st century, Alkmaar’s main shopping street of De Laat has undergone an extraordinary revitalisation; engaging the community in a reimagining process that introduced lush vegetation, water features, pedestrian priority, and ample seating.🧵

People of all ages and abilities walk, cycle, sit, and socialise along the main shopping street of Alkmaar, the Netherlands, which is lined with buildings, trees, flowers and plantings, benches, and terraces.

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karen ward @kwardvancouver.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

oh my god in whom i don't believe THIS IS HUGE WOW

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Jennifer Maiko Bradshaw @amoralorealis.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Wow. This is extremely suspicious behaviour by VPD leadership. And excellent persistent reporting. Give it a read, and also does anyone know how to apply public pressure onto them to comply with FOIs? Write to police board and AG?

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Jennifer Maiko Bradshaw @amoralorealis.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

It really grates my gears when high income people living in luxury homes at the top of this graph call small condos luxury and pretend those are the problem. For some reason they’re very often fucking landscape architects??? Wtaf is happening at UBC SCARP.

Data on Metro Van household income by type of dwelling. High income people predominantly live in low density housing, while low income people live in high density housing.

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Jennifer Maiko Bradshaw @amoralorealis.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

I truly believe in everyone having access to adequate housing, but I often wonder how difficult it must be for frontline workers of SROs and shelters. My apartment has had a few “hard-to-house” folks living in it. One fellow had a trash collection problem and caused constant cockroach infestations.

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Jennifer Maiko Bradshaw @amoralorealis.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

At best, inclusionary zoning is a tax on housing to pay for subsidized housing (that would still be better as a subsidy from a general tax pool since it would be less susceptible to market cycles) At worst it’s a really regressive tax on the poor~middle income folks who live in higher density homes

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Sandy Johnston @sandypsj.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

You wonder why it's so hard to build actual, capital-A affordable housing, and then you realize this kind of story is repeated many times per day across the country. Many people-regular folks-who claim to value it, when push comes to shove, simply do not. www.newhavenindependent.org/article/cons...

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19 New Affordable Homes Delayed

The Board of Zoning Appeals (BZA) pumped the brakes on an Elicker administration plan to build 15 owner-occupied homes and four rentals in Newhallville --…

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CJ @virmalised.us · 13/08/2025

i want to see as many people calling as loudly for the elimination of SUVs, which are literally physically destroying the planet, as call for regulation of e-bikes

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Abundant Housing Vancouver @ahvancouver.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

The Federal government needs to demand much better zoning or their pre-fab investments will be a waste. Even the TOAs in Metro Van allow only small, 200m circles @ >12 storeys, and BC does not require zoning proactively even within those small areas.

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Jennifer @jenwith1n.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

I get very sick of people saying that local governments can’t do anything about global problems. Most car trips in cities are under 3 miles - we could absolutely get more people using bikes or riding transit at the local level!

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Jenny Schuetz @jennyschuetz.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Also true in US. Subsidizing wealthy homeowners is both an inefficient use of public resources and highly regressive.

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Burnished rows of steel @acreed.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Something I find that homeowners just can’t wrap their heads around is that they don’t get taxed on their rental income. They seem incapable of grasping they are both tenant and landlord and just how tax-advantaged they are bc of that.

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Owen @oweninvan.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

It's hard to not think we'd be better off as a country if more higher income people were renters who didn't care how much their home was worth. "Be careful what you wish for," of course, but the current tax policy outcomes seem bad, among other things.

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Jennifer Maiko Bradshaw @amoralorealis.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Gonna unpack this a bit. There are at least two groups of left-leaning folks here that @mikepmoffatt.bsky.social is mixing up. 1)left-leaning housing policy folks like @cwhitzman.bsky.social, Alex Hemingway who want tenure neutrality because housing (and tax) policy should be equitable to renters

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Colleen @cbailey6.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

I don't think that this is true but, setting that aside, one reason that renting is not viewed as a "proper" choice by certain groups of people is that it really sucks during a shortage. The last 6ish months of higher vacancies and lower rents have seen a small power shift and renting feels better.

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Jennifer Maiko Bradshaw @amoralorealis.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

The lights and fog all works! 🥲 time to finish construction and start painting soon. Sorry for the lack of urbanism content, been very busy crafting!

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Alvaro M. Bedoya @bedoyausa.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

A man coughing up blood. Men zip-tied face down on a wet floor. CCTV turned off. Men forced to eat off of a chair like animals while handcuffed. Solitary confinement if you complain. This is just three paragraphs from a new report.

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Always and forever

White text on black:

WE ASK
EVERYONE
OUTSIDE OF THE CAR TO BE SAFE
SO THAT DRIVERS CAN BE DANGEROUS
THAT'S THE ENTIRETY OF OUR APPROACH TO ROAD SAFETY
ROVÉLO CREATIVE

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Rebecca Saltzman @rebeccaforec.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Cars are deadly weapons. Cars are deadly weapons. Cars are deadly weapons. P.S. To reporters covering this story - the vehicle didn’t ram into the crowd on its own. A DRIVER rammed the car into a crowd.

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