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Lots of work to be done and details to be ironed out, but at least now everyone understands the problem: “There is a growing consensus on needing to deal with the housing supply shortage,” he says. This represents a “necessary shift,” he says, from five years ago when that was still being debated.

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This problem is still not fixed, the SSL certificate on the API is still incomplete. The dev version of {cansim} now has better error messages and explicit instructions how to disable peer checking for times when StatCan struggles with SSL basics.

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Vancouver version.

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PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

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Very proud and a bit nervous to share About Here’s latest video “The Housing Tax Crisis” with @smallhousing.bsky.social. This script took months of research and a bit of me losing my mind but I think it ultimately tells a profound story about our housing crisis today. youtu.be/ZEUR9bj89lo

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Re-upping this as StatCan still has not fixed their security certificate and I am still getting emails from people asking about access to the API. The workaround below temporarily disables part of the certificate checking to access the API, at the cost of data integrity guarantees.

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Some context missing from the article, the Squamish Nation would be buying back land that was originally associated with the historic Senakw village.

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Interesting transaction that raises the possibility of ATR. 🍿

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when a person who has saved so many people's lives (and in many different ways) dies, something in all of us (and in all of you, whether you know or not) dies too love drug users while we're alive beautiful work ↓ by dan fumano vancouversun.com/news/obituar...

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fascinated by a rhetorical strategy i see all the time now, which is making up an extreme edge case to argue against doing anything for the public good, and doing this from the putative left.

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So a local lottery designed to help fund schools was set up to have a 400% ROI within 72 hours, and apparently no local could figure out how favourable the odds were and a bunch of Europeans swooped in to cash out. Maybe just fund schools instead of holding lotteries, (math) education matters.

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Montreal tried that and actually managed to amalgamate island cities. Until the (former) island cities revolted and de-amalgamated a couple of years later. (Part of the property taxes and services remain shared after the demerger.)

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You can't report on this garbage without informing readers of the literal identical policy under Hitler. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/u...

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Come work with us! We're hiring a senior #housing researcher to develop and drive pro-housing policy at the local and state level. You could help us lift exclusionary zoning rules and promote policies that make Cascadia more affordable.

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Granger causality people are having a field day with this

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Aaaaahhhhhhhh

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Two young German travelers expected their Hawaii trip to be a highlight. Instead, their visit ended in handcuffs, jail time, and deportation — a stark reminder of the risks some international visitors face at US borders. https://beatofhawaii.com/why-these-hawaii-travelers-were-jailed-and-deported/

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From the June 18, 1973 edition of the Vancouver Sun:

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The #Crescent200 was a blast today! So many weird bikes, so many cool people to talk to.

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every day the algorithm shows me another person making a claim using an election projection website without any knowledge of how they work, and every day i get a little bit crankier

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PSA: The StatCan SSL certificate chain for API services is incomplete. To remove SSL peer and status checking to access the API via the {cansim} package type: httr::set_config(httr::config(ssl_verifypeer=0,ssl_verifystatus=0)) into the console.

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Ok, proof of concept is now a working prototype: compass-card-reviewed.vercel.app - ui updates - plus bike parkades! - legend on the map (ik ik 😅) - lot of changes under the hood (manifests and whatnot) so you should see less ‘unknown location’ pop-ups

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Canadian household formation peaked in 1981. While Quebec City and (until recently) Montreal managed to translate income growth into increased household formation, household formation declined in many other parts of Canada. It's mathematically impossible to reverse that without building more homes.

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They seem to misunderstand the point made by us 100-millionistas: it isn’t that this target is some unlikely mass-immigration fantasy; it’s that it almost certainly will be reached using regular non-mass immigration and we’d better plan and build to take advantage of its benefits

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New rental building, a.k.a “dropping the ghetto on Kitsilano”.

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Prime example of the ideology driven incoherent verbiage that pollute the housing discourse of our times.

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Sign of our times: US-based conference getting re-branded from cross-border to just national. Initial conference invitation went out in late February, looks like I wasn't the only one who let them know that I am no willing to participate in a conferences in the US at this point in time ...

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Great explainer video on upzoning and land values.

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this woman quoted at length from an article of mine that explicitly critiques this attitude, in order to double down on her belief that Indigenous people are only legitimate and respectable when they're powerless and tokenized. wrong takeaway! macleans.ca/society/sena...

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