February 2012
13 posts
1 tag
1 tag
TB_YVR, I don't know who you is, but I think I...
TB_YVR
6: 16 PM on February 11, 2012
Affordable housing in Vancouver is needed for everyone from single people through families - and for people at all earning levels (think this town will retain the new doctors, engineers, etc. it needs when the best they can achieve is a 1200 sqft unit for $1mil and every other place offers much more?). Look across the last 40-50 years. Has there ever been a time when a place that small required such a big chunk of a typical income? I've not seen it in any data I've looked at. Yes, many are too materialistic and unrealistic and ungrateful. But let's not pretend that Vancouver doesn't have serious housing problems that are rooted in circumstances that have arisen in the last decade (and the last 5 years in particular). Pushing some shiny space pod in a town overrun with tiny, rotting condos is not the solution this region needs.
What's hurting Vancouver.....
TB_YVR
6: 08 PM on February 11, 2012
Point being missed: Vancouver has a dearth of rental or affordable ownership options for anyone needing 3 or more bedrooms (i.e. families!). Meanwhile, NIMBY influence keeps City Hall from passing much-needed laws to rezone parts of the East and West Side for things like larger townhouses. The vitriol stems from the fact that things like the units presented in this article are being presented as a solution to what's hurting this town. It doesn't need more small condos (for rent or owning).
Occupy Your Parent's Basement →
“MJ: At the beginning of the project, you hired several career coaches to help...”
– Bait and Switch: An Interview with Barbara Ehrenreich | Mother Jones
January 2012
74 posts
“so many fucking sources encourage us to believe that inside every one of us is...”
– The Fantasy of Being Thin « Shapely Prose
DREAMZONES: You can have "Transformative Feminism"... →
garlandgrey:
You can have “Transformative Feminism” or you can have a Feminism where people who have been hurt aren’t lectured about giving abusers a second chance.
You can have “Transformative Feminism” or you can have a Feminism where we acknowledge that making space for a White Cis Man who works in…
“Nothing makes people more neurotic than the expectation that they should be...”
– The Economist (via quiettemperament)
yes yes yes. as zizek said, “pleasure has become a duty”
(via theweightofemptiness)
First x years of life
(via whenyrlivinginafascistdream)
BOOM FOR REAL: also, cupcakes but you knew that →
hugetime:
honesty is cool candour is cool abjection is uncool now i think feeling loserly is uncool now i think feminine arrogance is cool gender confusion remains cool black people and black people’s ideas and black people’s creations are always cool except of course if you are one queer was…
Cool
oliviadunbar:
Aaron Vidaver, Unsquatted Houses, 2009
Vidaver!
Claire Lacey: desertmar: Tucson schools bans books... →
desertmar:
Tucson schools bans books by Chicano and Native American authors
unaguerrasinfondo:
Native authors in banned book include Leslie Marmon Silko, Buffy Sainte Marie and Winona LaDuke
By Brenda Norrell
Breaking news: Updated Sunday with response from banned author…
Are you fucking kidding me?
“..negative thinking can be adaptive. When problems arise, worry can be a...”
– Roger Covin, Ph.D: It’s Time to End Our Obsession With Positive Thinking
14 tags
Reimer Reads 2012 Book 1: JJ Lee's A Measure of a...
I dug it. And I reviewed it for Vancouver is Awesome.
