thePodcast: Rush to solve housing crisis with more density, less democracy a recipe for failure

March 24, 2024 00:29:59
thePodcast: Rush to solve housing crisis with more density, less democracy a recipe for failure
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thePodcast: Rush to solve housing crisis with more density, less democracy a recipe for failure

Mar 24 2024 | 00:29:59

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For the week of March 17, 2024: Rather than solve the affordable housing crisis, David Ley predicts pro-development politicians like Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, B.C. Premier David Eby and Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim will do more harm than good. Ley is the professor emeritus of geography at the University of British Columbia and author of “Millionaire Migrants: Trans-Pacific Life Lines” (2010) and “Housing Booms in Gateway Cities” (2023). On March 20, he spoke at the Local Democracy Project’s forum at UBC Robson Square on “Civic Government: Corporate, Consultative or Participatory?” Ley said that Vancouver already had an over-supply of housing […]

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