Data, analysis, visualization, #CensusMapper, transportation cyclist. Transitioning to bsky: @jensvb.bsky.social
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Putting the 'open' into #openData, one map at a time. Make your own #CensusMapper map! doodles.mountainmath.ca/blog…
Just in case there are people using CensusMapper or the data API/{cancensus} that have not yet made it over to the other place.
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Starter pack for Vancouver urbanism on Bluesky (which is great): bsky.app/starter-pack/gridsv…
Cross-posting with delay as I continue to wind down my activity here, just in case people were mislead thinking that “foreign buying has spiked” in B.C. — it’s not a thing.
ALT Cross posting about the problematic G&M article with wrong data and bad framing. https://doodles.mountainmath.ca/posts/2024-11-08-no-spike-in-foreign-buying/
Looks like one of the wrong stats got fixed, so that’s … progress? Would not want to get overly ambitious and fix all of the data issues at once. But anyway, wrong numbers is probably more of a symptom and only grazes the core of the issue here. Context: doodles.mountainmath.ca/post…
Continuing to de-prioritize this space. If you have not seen it yet, {cansim} v0.3.17 is now on CRAN with enhanced metadata handling.
The {cmhc} R package version v0.2.9 is now on CRAN. This update includes fixes to accommodate changes to the CMHC HMIP back end, as well as more intelligent guessing of desired frequencies for snapshot data. mountainmath.github.io/cmhc/
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Canada has posted a cyber attaché at its unofficial embassy in #Taiwan as Ottawa deepens co-operation with Taipei over combatting computer hacking and disinformation, a significant amount of which originates in China. theglobeandmail.com/world/ar…
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Senator @ewarren: HELLO, YIMBYS!!!
@YIMBYsforHarris
It’s worse than that, it’s not just that there is no below-maker rental. It’s that there is less rental overall. We are in a housing crisis and would be a better off with an extra floor of market rental than without.
A Secured Rental Policy proposal is at public hearing next Nov. 12th, 3983-3991 West 10th Ave.
Once again this is a 5-storey proposal where 6 is allowed, because the inclusionary zoning requirement for 6-storeys is unviable. 20% of 0 is zero. council.vancouver.ca/2024111…
ALT Under the SRP, this site is located on an eligible arterial road and is able to rezone under the RR-2B (five-storey) and RR-2C (six-storey with 20% of residential floor area secured as below-market rental units) zones. This site is not eligible for a mixed-use development. Out of the eligible options, the applicant has chosen to rezone to RR-2B. The RR-2B District Schedule permits residential rental buildings up to five-storeys in height and 2.20 FSR. This zoning requires a minimum frontage of 20.1 m (66 ft.). On some shallow sites and corner sites with a minimum frontage of 40.2 m (132 ft.), a density of up to 2.40 applies for sites on arterials. The zoning also requires 35% of the units to be for families and include two bedrooms or more.
Policies that reduce the overall amount of housing are regressive. Building more housing puts downward pressure on rents of existing rental, policies that prevent this result in a net transfer of income from tenants to existing landlords. doodles.mountainmath.ca/post…
Engaging read on the history of Sen̓áḵw through the forensic examination of news coverage of the time. Providing important context to the current public discourse around First Nation developments on a portion of this very site, and more broadly throughout the region.
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And they all seem to have ended up at the place where the air is cleaner and the sky is bluer. It's pretty nice over there, hope to see the rest of the thoughtful crowd make the switch...
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Thanks for the kind words, Jens! Your data analysis was the centrepiece of the article. It changed the way I understand Toronto.
Good article looking into geographic disparities in density in Toronto, illustrating it with the example of two neighbourhoods. thelocal.to/density-the-anne…
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An excellent piece that encapsulates so much of what is wrong with housing in Toronto.
Good article looking into geographic disparities in density in Toronto, illustrating it with the example of two neighbourhoods. thelocal.to/density-the-anne…
Good article looking into geographic disparities in density in Toronto, illustrating it with the example of two neighbourhoods. thelocal.to/density-the-anne…
But Mike, you see, these taxes apply to very different groups of people. The $100/year extra hits hard-working homeowners while the $192,000 only hit people who want to enter the housing market, be it the entitled adult child wanting to move out or the parasitic in-migrant.
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.@MikePMoffatt As an aside, another useful framing of this is that’s a “poop tax” on people who want to poop in the privacy of their own place. Bonus map of ~100k young adults confined to poop at their parents place in Vancouver. bureaucracybs.substack.com/p…
