“Why aren’t we putting 6, 8, 10 storey apartment buildings on quiet streets around our beloved parks and schools. We love them in the West End and by Stanley Park” - DO

Danny references the Grand Bargain and Denis’ experience with tall housing development around rapid transit. We’re talking about this Gordon Price perspective viewpointvancouver.ca/2019/10/17/t...

Are we thinking of 40 year old skytrain stations like Nanaimo and 29th that look like this today?

“People should have the ability to live in any community they’d like to live in without long, long commutes. Abundant Housing has been leading communities in driving these conversations and getting cities to shift on this” - Ravi

Jenn describes returning home from school to Vancouver nearly a decade ago and seeing how frustrating it was to see unreasonable opposition to forms of housing that were acceptable around the world. But misconceptions about detached homes being affordable.

Denis recounting the fundamental parallels of shortages in both housing and public transit

Minister Kahlon speaks to province’s move requiring Official Community Plans being updated every 5 years (is this often enough? Soon enough) and moving away from public hearings that previous required having to debate every single project.

I’m here with @dannyoleksiuk.bsky.social @amoralorealis.bsky.social @denisagar.bsky.social and @ravikahlon.bsky.social to dig into the future of housing transit for our home of Vancouver!