Explore every backyard home, duplex, fourplex and eightplex permitted in Edmonton’s RS Zone since 2024, on a map or in a searchable neighbourhood table.

Explore every backyard home, duplex, fourplex and eightplex permitted in Edmonton’s RS Zone since 2024, on a map or in a searchable neighbourhood table.

Fiveplex to eightplex rowhomes are now Edmonton’s largest category of new homes, even as overall permits fell 27% through Q3 2026, mostly because of fewer large apartments. With the province eyeing th...

In the previous post, I used a recent post from Charles Marohn at Strong Towns as a framework to discuss errors in the canon about 21st century housing markets.

I moved to Edmonton in 2023, along with 100,000 others in two years, in the middle of a housing crisis engulfing much of Canada. It was a good year to be a housing advocate. Governments at every level...

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The City Plan is about our spaces and places and how we move around the city. It is about our community and what we need to do together to grow, adapt and succeed.

Every single-detached home that becomes a rowhome, plex, or backyard home multiplies its assessed value. Matching 2024–2026 building permits to City assessment data, I measure that uplift directly, al...

While finding an affordable rental apartment is harder than ever, cities own many empty or underutilized spots all across the city. How do we unlock them for…

Edmonton building permits slowed through the first half of 2026, but the RS Zone rowhome keeps setting records.