Sen̓áḵw: One City Might Have Just Cracked the Housing Crisis

Kasian’s Sen̓áḵw project has been featured in the New York Times.

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Written by Binyamin Appelbaum, the article begins:

Imagine that 10 acres of land in the middle of your city was unbound from the laws that limit housing construction. No zoning. No neighborly lawsuits. No reviews by the Department of You Can’t Build That or its sister agency, the Department of Slow Down.

It sounds like a wand-waving, deus ex machina solution to the housing crisis that is gripping North American cities. But it is happening right now, and in one of the most unlikely places imaginable: Vancouver, British Columbia.

Vancouver, a charming port city on the southwestern corner of the Canadian mainland, has the dubious distinction of being, by many measures, North America’s least affordable urban area. More than New York or Los Angeles, it is the place that has failed most spectacularly in the basic work of building enough housing.

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