I’d like to see development incentives for tree retention. Like a living space bonus for projects that keep mature trees. It would offset the cost of protecting trees during development, and encourage tree retention early in the design process

I’ve spent 2 years advocating for the homes families need and a more equitable North Van Now I want to continue that work as your councillor at the City of North Vancouver Go to northvandrew.ca to learn about my campaign and how you can help build a future here in North Van for all generations

“Abundance comes from creation: more productive land, better information, more efficient capital, faster decisions, lower risk, better construction, and more homes that fit the people they’re meant for” www.vanplex.ca/blog/housing...

Housing Abundance or Just Moving the Bill? | VanPlex

The Carney-Eby plan converts 2,200 B.C. condos and cuts development charges 50%. Is it housing abundance or moving the cost of scarcity? And why a fourplex right isn't a fourplex.

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Great news for anyone worried there isn’t enough funding for the infrastructure that needs to come with new homes! Lowering development taxes on the homes we need is essential for improving affordability Why? 👇🏻

The Globe and Mail@theglobeandmail.com · 2mo ago

Great article about a beautiful new development that reminders us “that the thing preventing us from building is… us”

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2mo ago

In Opinion Vancouver has a housing crisis. But free from city rules, “the Squamish are providing the city’s residents with a chunk of the housing they so desperately need,” Binyamin Appelbaum writes of the First Nation whose ancestors lived there. “Other cities ought to be taking notes.”

Love this! And not just cause they put the SeaBus in the announcement like we already know the answer ⛴️🏆

Vision Zero Vancouver@visionzerovancouver.ca · 3mo ago

Today, with our friends @visionzeroottawa.bsky.social & @visionzerokh.bsky.social, we're launching a contest to find Canada's Best Commute! There will be community votes! Prizes! And great discussions for all. See details and enter your submission: visionzerovancouver.ca/2026/01/14/c...

Many North Vancouverites worry that our current housing system won’t give them any future in our community, let alone an affordable one So finding alternative pathways to create new homes in our community is exactly what we need Local leaders must get serious about exploring ideas like these

Better North Shore@betternorthshore.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Is it possible to create a home on the North Shore that would sell for $350,000? Yes! Here's how: #northvan#affordable#housing www.betternorthshore.ca/blog/a-home-...

CNV GO Zone Improvement #1: Incentivize the right designs Surprisingly, re-legalizing 4-floor heritage style buildings by increasing floor space ratio and floor count limits can help multiplexes fit better into our neighbourhoods Let’s compare two ground oriented building styles to see how (1/9)

This week City of North Vancouver Council unanimously voted to ask staff to rework their proposal for how to align our zoning with provincial small-scale multi-unit housing requirements (1/5)

Ending the disillusionment allowing society’s greatest challenges to go unchecked requires giving the next generation hope! But our housing crisis is doing the opposite Another great video from @pwaldkirch.bsky.social lays it out plainly and once again perfectly captures how I feel — thank you!

Peter Waldkirch 華彼德@pwaldkirch.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I wanted to take a moment to say a few things as directly as I could. Wanting to legalize apartments in the West Side of Vancouver isn't radical. A status quo built on exclusion is. If we want to move the needle at all, we'll need councillors committed to big ideas and real change.

Holding back blanket up-zoning for fear of giving developers increases in land values… 1) Is unsupported by evidence (below) 2) Maintains scarcity of developable land 3) Upholds a status quo where development is only accessible to those with deep pockets, not existing families in your community

Bryn Davidson - Lanefab@lanefab.com · 3mo ago

Citywide incremental up-zoning doesn't inflate land values. * I'm not saying this downward price trend is related to zoning, it's more about macro economics, but there are certain folks who argue that up-zoning is the source of our affordability problem, and they are just wrong

Good job, Maple Ridge! 75% reduction in building application times is a great example of what leading on housing looks like

Maple Ridge says it has reinvented its approach to housing - Maple Ridge News

City encourages growth with smart planning, less red tape

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Did you know that I like facts? Some great ones at DRIPAfacts.ca

Emily Lowan (she/her)@emilylowan.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Boosting the incredible resources on DRIPAfacts.ca! 📝 Share far and wide to combat coordinated misinformation campaigns. DRIPA is the path forward for human rights in BC. Send this to your family, co-workers and friends so we can collectively defend this critical legislation in the coming months.

Letter: Who killed Dundarave? We all did when we shot down efficient transit

Letter: Who killed Dundarave? We all did when we shot down efficient transit

Bringing express bus service to Dundarave would have helped keep the West Vancouver neighbourhood vibrant, this letter writer states, but that idea was roundly rejected

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Is this sidewalk wide enough for a busy school and daycare drop off zone? If you’re in a rush and need to pass me, would you step onto the busy road or the edge of the steep grassy slope?

North Shore News@northshorenews.bsky.social · 4mo ago

City of North Van slims down plans for wider sidewalks at new school

"This is what systemic ageism against younger Canadians looks like in practice: a pattern of decisions at the cabinet table that no grandparent would make around their family table."

Young Canadians are increasingly miserable. Government priorities show why

Governments have not matched the rise in spending on boomers with new revenue from that generation

theglobeandmail.com

As a CNV resident and healthcare worker doing clinical research and technology development, I am super excited about this! Beyond impacts to our health and economy, it’s especially great to think that our City’s next generation of health leaders will have more reasons to stay in their community

North Shore News@northshorenews.bsky.social · 4mo ago

City of North Vancouver seeks white coat jobs in new 'health innovation district'

Sadly, local opposition to new schools in Metro Vancouver isn’t just confined to Olympic Village This article describes how City of North Vancouver is scaling back sidewalks and crosswalks next to a new school to instead prioritize the use of public property for parking by the school’s neighbours

This brilliant article describes the link between Canada’s poor economic growth and our restrictive municipal housing policies. “Canada cannot build a 21st-century economy with a 20th-century housing regime”

Why Canada's housing crisis is a productivity crisis, too

Ricardo Hausmann and Eric Protzer: Canada's lack of suitable housing is a social problem, but it can also stymie growth. Read how.

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Glad to see funding agencies holding municipalities to account for not doing their part to enable more housing. While the City of North Vancouver’s HAF Action Plan proposes multiplexes of up to 8 homes per lot, our new multiplex zone only allows up to 6 😕

Dr. Mike P. Moffatt@mikepmoffatt.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Markham just lost $7.36 million of their $58.8M (12.5%) federal Housing Accelerator funding for violating their requirement to legalize fourplexes. Not massive, but honestly, a bigger cut than I thought it would be.

“Homeowners should realize that Canada's housing crisis isn’t just hurting the people who don’t yet own a home. It’s slowing our economy, hollowing out our public services, concentrating wealth among existing homeowners and … fraying the social trust that holds our communities together.”

Opinion | We're delaying having families, sitting in traffic and locking in to overwhelming debt. Our hosing problem is really not getting better — Toronto Star

Unaffordable housing has a slew of knock-on effects that are making life worse for everyone.

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Dr. Mike P. Moffatt@mikepmoffatt.bsky.social · 5mo ago

New piece in the Toronto Star from Cara and me, on research showing how the middle-class housing crisis negatively impacts all of us, not just those priced out of homes. Read here:

The Vancouver Sun’s anti-housing bias is a huge contributor to our region’s dialogue around housing Thanks to this post for summarizing it so well

Jens von Bergmann@jensvb.bsky.social · 5mo ago

A storey in four acts as captured by local news media: 18 storeys is too high, we’d be fine with 4-6 storeys 6 storeys are too big, we'd be fine with multiplexes Multiplexes are monstrosities, we are fine with existing post-Second World War bungalows ...

City of North Vancouver wants to hear how new family-sized housing should fit into “heritage areas” This survey is a great chance to say you want balanced and inclusive growth, not exclusive and classist “heritage character” designations for our hood with the most parks, transit, and schools

Virtual info session

Visit the virtual information session for Bill 25 alignment engagement.

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Brodie: “eventually people will notice how their neighbourhoods have changed for the worse” We already have! Our friends/family have been priced out! 💔 It’s why polls show gentle density and multiplexes are BC’s preferred form of growth, and likely why Richmond’s shown “little public reaction”

Jens von Bergmann@jensvb.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Brodie: "I believe that this heralds the death of the single-family neighbourhood." This is how Richmond population changed in this time on council: High-density Greenfield/brownfield development (with sub-par urbanism) and single family stasis or decline. doodles.mountainmath.ca/html/yvr_pop...

Thank you @pwaldkirch.bsky.social for stepping up for Vancouver. This inspiring video describes so well how I feel (plus I always love a good boat reference)

Peter Waldkirch 華彼德@pwaldkirch.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I've spent years fighting for homes and a more affordable, equitable Vancouver. Now I want to take that fight to City Hall as your councillor. Go to www.PeterForCouncil.ca and join OneCity so you can support Peter For Council and help me get on the ballot! youtu.be/-d7WFFoqb0c

All these reasons for expensive housing also apply to the City of North Vancouver We restrict zoning in order to extract taxes from new housing. We take this so far that the next generation of residents and workers is taxed out of an affordable or well-housed life

The five whys

Why is housing in Metro Vancouver so scarce and expensive?

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I've seen quite a few people sneer at voters' "ignorance" for identifying the federal government as the primary culprit in Canada's housing mess. While I probably wouldn't answer "federal", it's not unreasonable. Here's why:

Great to see articles that acknowledge that policies from ALL levels of government have helped cause our housing shortage Too often governments point blame at each other when they aren’t themselves doing everything they can to fix this mess

A decade-by-decade look at why and when housing became unaffordable — The Globe and Mail

Zoning restrictions, land-use rules, monetary policy and population growth were key drivers in affordability

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Just 11% of homes in the City of North Vancouver are missing middle housing types. This is a result of municipal policies that contribute to our housing shortage This video explains why I support expanding CNV’s multiplex zoning to enable more balanced and inclusive growth in our community