Housing

ISSUE 07

sam hawkins

tyler knoll

alyse kotyk

jamie maxwell

jonathan bessette

jay shah

07

The Housing Issue

Community development is a growing challenge for major metropolitan centres. These areas are subject to skyrocketing housing prices that leave many out of the market. Gentrification leads to wealthier people being in the major centres of economic and cultural activity. All others are forced to move further and further out to the periphery, with their concerns moving to the periphery as well.

Stadt 8 by Denis Schafer

Sam Hawkins

Do it yourself

Vancouver’s housing crisis is putting pressure on the DIY music scene

Aug 4, 2017

Tyler Knoll

Tales from the basement dwelling millennial

Nostalgia, existential crises, and the perpetual search for adulthood

Aug 4, 2017

Jamie Maxwell

A flickering sign of life

How the absolute hell of Yaletown compares to Barcelona

Aug 4, 2017

Jonathan Bessette

An elaborate illusion

A Quixotic Tale about finding a home in Vancouver

Aug 4, 2017

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The Housing Issue

Community development is a growing challenge for major metropolitan centres. These areas are subject to skyrocketing housing prices that leave many out of the market. Gentrification leads to wealthier people being in the major centres of economic and cultural activity. All others are forced to move further and further out to the periphery, with their concerns moving to the periphery as well.