To Build Fast, Think Small
How re-legalizing small apartment buildings would spur the homes city dwellers need now.
Region: British Columbia
Worried about Infrastructure Costs? Then End the Apartment Ban
Takeaways Find audio versions of Sightline articles on any of your favorite podcast platforms, including Spotify, YouTube, and Apple. Editor’s note: Sightline Institute is co-publishing this article with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. View its version here. The costs of public infrastructure are becoming the go-to excuse for restrictive zoning policies in British Columbia. … Read more
It’s (Past) Time for British Columbia to Legalize Roommates
Takeaways British Columbia has made great strides in recent years opening up more homes, in all shapes and sizes, to address its severe housing shortage and resulting unaffordability. Unfortunately, one step it hasn’t taken—that neighboring Washington and Oregon have—is lifting the caps on unrelated roommates who can live together, effectively mandating empty bedrooms in homes … Read more
British Columbia Just Took First Place in Pro-Housing Policy
Takeaways For years, opponents of transit and infill housing in British Columbia mostly succeeded in blocking new homes and transit lines, driving up the province’s notoriously high home prices and rents. Slowly, though, small projects made it through that gauntlet, until late last year, leaders passed a raft of reforms to unlock more homes, in … Read more
It’s Time for Cascadia to Start Pruning the Gas System and Electrifying Whole Neighborhoods
Early efforts in California, Colorado, and New York offer lessons to get started.
Getting Beyond the Detached House in Vancouver, BC
How a flexible “Plex” design could add lower-cost homes, green space, and walkable, vibrant neighborhoods—fast—across housing-strapped cities.
The Best Wildfire Solution We’re Not Using
Three ways to curb the sprawl that traps us on a wildfire treadmill.
