Reposted by Stephen RouseLurker Envoy @lurkerenvoy.bsky.social · 8hYou know, it's really an indictment of most Canadian cities that Danielle Smith is forcing Edmonton to adopt the terrible housing policies that those cities freely choose for themselves. 18223
Stephen Rouse @stephenrouse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Brave to put yourself out there in front of a feisty crowd. Nice job! 020
Reposted by Stephen RouseNathan Lauster @lausterna.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Fun archival find from 1952. ONE WEEK in wait time for a building permit was deemed unacceptable by local builders, as approvals shifted from the building to planning departments ahead of the new zoning bylaw. Nowadays, what's an extra week? vancouvergeneralcontractors.com/vancouver-pe... 0247
Stephen Rouse @stephenrouse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026So they're dropping a bunch of taxes, shutting the door on any meaningful new ones, and also cutting the deficit somehow? 170
Stephen Rouse @stephenrouse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Together We Can turn our beaches and community centres into Costco parking lots 181
Stephen Rouse @stephenrouse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Saying one thing & doing another is a bit of a pattern for him - analysis.commonsenseeconomics.ca/p/government...analysis.commonsenseeconomics.caGovernment by EconometricsDecision-based Evidence-Making 082
Reposted by Stephen RouseDeny Sullivan @denysullivan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026At some point you need to ask whether the petty complaints of seniors are worthy of publishing. Like, this is fodder for thanksgiving dinner talk, not the CBC, and surely not a pressing matter of government 818521
Stephen Rouse @stephenrouse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Some numbers to put the NPR surge in context in Toronto (CMA): 051
Stephen Rouse @stephenrouse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026It's important to keep in mind that he ran and nearly lost last time when the CPC was polling near their peak. It's a totally different landscape now 100
Stephen Rouse @stephenrouse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026This is what 1 month in the Ministry of Health does to someone 070
Stephen Rouse @stephenrouse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026It's just a matter of time. Has anyone else even said "econometrics"? analysis.commonsenseeconomics.ca/p/government...analysis.commonsenseeconomics.caGovernment by EconometricsDecision-based Evidence-Making 040
Stephen Rouse @stephenrouse.bsky.social · 18/09/2026My viable, serious, legitimate voting option shirt is raising a lot of questions 030
Stephen Rouse @stephenrouse.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Spot on. But I'm curious if Brad West makes the jump. There was some speculation that he might try and take over a different version of the conservatives before the last election 010
Stephen Rouse @stephenrouse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Any public examples you can think of off the top of your head? 100
Stephen Rouse @stephenrouse.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Depends which model you're running with imo. Opus 5 was really bad for this 010
Stephen Rouse @stephenrouse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The people are desperately clamoring for housing above industrial sites 231
Stephen Rouse @stephenrouse.bsky.social · 10/09/2026There's a narrative out there that SFHs are the only option for intergenerational homes, but in reality there are so many better options. 120
Stephen Rouse @stephenrouse.bsky.social · 09/09/2026How do we even know it's a success yet? He might be the weakest candidate out of the 3 010
Stephen Rouse @stephenrouse.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Considering that the cooperation agreement resulted in Azaroff dropping out before the debates even began, maybe it wasn't a very good agreement 061
Stephen Rouse @stephenrouse.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Haha agreed there. I meant that he went out of his way to downplay policy differences with Fry/COPE in interviews. I can't remember a single time he attacked Fry in public. Even politely 270
Stephen Rouse @stephenrouse.bsky.social · 08/09/2026You have to earn that. Azaroff was unwilling to engage in politics publicly. You can't win an election by deliberating obscuring all the differences between yourself and the other candidates 120
Stephen Rouse @stephenrouse.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Vancouver is great! The housing prices will make you feel like you never left California 0210
Stephen Rouse @stephenrouse.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Imo the biggest tactical flaw has been OC participating in a "primary" where the discussions are all happening behind closed doors. There are very real policy differences between COPE/OC/Greens but you wouldn't know it from hearing them talk to each other in public 010
Stephen Rouse @stephenrouse.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Ah, the American strategy to elections. Perhaps we can do better here 010
Stephen Rouse @stephenrouse.bsky.social · 26/08/2026It's stupid, especially since every clinic already sends everyone's patient data to the MoH. The whole point of public health insurance is to have streamlined operations for things like this 010
Stephen Rouse @stephenrouse.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Good question, I'm not really sure. It's pretty much only from condos too 010
Stephen Rouse @stephenrouse.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Are we sure starts have cratered in Vancouver? The GTA is a totally different story with how dramatic the condo collapse has been there 110
Stephen Rouse @stephenrouse.bsky.social · 21/08/2026I'm a little confused by your point. Are you suggesting that land values for SFHs would decrease if there was stricter rent control? 100
Reposted by Stephen RouseJens von Bergmann @jensvb.bsky.social · 20/08/2026One way to understand the restrictiveness of zoning is to look at land price gradients across zone boundaries, @lausterna.bsky.social and check into what that looks like in Vancouver.doodles.mountainmath.caZoning Constraints and Land Price Gradients – Mountain DoodlesSteep land price gradients across zoning boundaries are an indication of zoning restrictions being binding. We take a look at what this looks like for the City of Vancouver. 24315
Reposted by Stephen RouseBrendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 12/08/2026What we’re seeing nation wide is that the events have conspired to give cities “breathing room” on housing and they are going to mostly squander it across all political tendencies 27118
Reposted by Stephen RouseEd Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 10/08/2026You don’t have to like this guy‘s politics to recognize that everyone who has insisted for decades that The Issues are almost all too complicated and too nuanced to explain to voters let alone address was lying to you. 75123763000
Stephen Rouse @stephenrouse.bsky.social · 07/08/2026There's so much misinformation out there about property taxes in general 010
Reposted by Stephen RouseKevin Wilson @kwilsonhfx.bsky.social · 30/07/2026This was something a lot of housing advocates saw coming a mile away when the immigration cuts were announced. The fundamental stance of Canadian cities is that they prefer high prices to building housing. They love high prices. Easing off immigration was never going to change that. 210829
Stephen Rouse @stephenrouse.bsky.social · 29/07/2026The bravest amongst us will start reinstating typos 020
Reposted by Stephen RouseJens von Bergmann @jensvb.bsky.social · 29/07/2026It’s just the infinite planning loop. First we make vibrant commercial uses unviable by taxing them at 4x the residential rate, the market responds by building less commercial and more residential, then we use zoning to force commercial uses in the name of “urbanism”. 1172
Reposted by Stephen RouseGRIDS Vancouver @grids.reillywood.com · 28/07/2026Grab bag of thoughts re: the Villages I think the last few years have shown us that the wave of support for more housing was... not illusionary exactly, but people don't feel strongly enough about it to counteract very concrete+organized NIMBY opposition. Grim. 1305
Stephen Rouse @stephenrouse.bsky.social · 28/07/2026City Hall's gonna be pissed once they realize how badly ABC beat them here 000
Stephen Rouse @stephenrouse.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Council created this bad process in the first place but it's still bad that the union is taking advantage of it 020
Stephen Rouse @stephenrouse.bsky.social · 24/07/2026But to your point that wasn't how the hearing went 110
Stephen Rouse @stephenrouse.bsky.social · 24/07/2026They were pretty open about their approach in the Fumano article 100
Stephen Rouse @stephenrouse.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Yeah it's not great to see an organized group weaponize a (broken) process like this, and then brag about it afterwards. 120
Stephen Rouse @stephenrouse.bsky.social · 24/07/2026I agree with most of your points but I'm not sure interesting is the best way to describe their approach. It's a really cynical way for them engage politically. 160
Stephen Rouse @stephenrouse.bsky.social · 17/07/2026It's definitely annoying but right now most of the new development is in all the suburbs, where ppl aren't as wealthy 100
Stephen Rouse @stephenrouse.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Meanwhile we're talking about "villages" in Vancouver 010
