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CAPREIT CEO endorses Eby's $500M rental-buy plan

CAPREIT CEO endorses Eby's $500M rental-buy plan

Canada’s largest landlord offers to sell hundreds of its older “affordable” units to the B.C. government and non-profits
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Comment: The inevitable rise of the permanent renter

Comment: The inevitable rise of the permanent renter

The percentage of Canadian renters has increased at three times the rate of homeowners over the past decade and shows no sign of slowing
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PART 2: B.C. social housing: non-profit programs with promise

PART 2: B.C. social housing: non-profit programs with promise

This is the last of a two-part Western Investor special report on the millions of dollars in government spending, which is meant to provide affordable housing for the most vulnerable in British Columbia
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Comment: City change to Broadway Plan will slow pace of rental housing

Comment: City change to Broadway Plan will slow pace of rental housing

Vancouver staff recommendation to allow only five new development proposals per year flies in the face of earlier plans – and the city’s desperate need for more rental units
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Blinded by billions: a look at spending on social housing in B.C.

Blinded by billions: a look at spending on social housing in B.C.

This is an update on the first of a two-part Western Investor report on ballooning government housing support for the most vulnerable in British Columbia.
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Opinion: B.C. Rental Protection Fund is really a rental destruction plan

Opinion: B.C. Rental Protection Fund is really a rental destruction plan

Amid a severe housing shortage, the B.C. government is spending $500 million of taxpayer money not to build rental housing, but to stop people who want to build it
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Calgary’s low equity, high cash flow attracts landlord investors

Calgary’s low equity, high cash flow attracts landlord investors

Multi-family market conditions ‘not seen since Alberta’s last economic boom,’ says CMHC analyst.
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Delivering new Metro Vancouver rentals now ‘next to impossible’

Delivering new Metro Vancouver rentals now ‘next to impossible’

Changes will be needed in 2023 to accommodate high costs, interest rates and competitive government programs to meet immigration and housing targets, builders say
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Coronation Park land assembly owners finally reach closure

Coronation Park land assembly owners finally reach closure

Years after 59 house owners sold their Port Moody lots for development, the 14.8-acre land assembly has closed at $157.2 million – but the project is still not approved
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Outlook: multi-family rental buildings will attract big-ticket sales

Outlook: multi-family rental buildings will attract big-ticket sales

Third-quarter sales dip in B.C.’s multi-family market expected to in be in rear view mirror shortly as interest rates stable and immigration hits stride
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