The night before the council hearing discussing the character home zoning review and changes to duplex zoning we decided to spend some time understanding for who we keep 67% of residential land zoned as “single family” (RS), and another 2% as quasi single family in First Shaugnessey (FSD) and 9% as “duplex” (RT). Keeping things simple, let’s just look at RS.
Who Can Afford To Buy? That’s a pretty easy question to answer.
Income numbers for the 2016 census are out, and I am taking a first shot to dig a little into the numbers. The numbers correspond to the 2015 income tax data, and this census was the first time that all data was directly linked to CRA tax data. For all people. So the income data is part of the “100% data” this time.
In the standard release we got median income data (no average income numbers this year, for better or worse), individual and household income distributions, income deciles for families, and two low income measures by rough age groups.
I wasn’t really getting into the Amazon HQ2 thing, but then the Upshot did some analysis that excluded Canadian metros. That’s not right. So I decided to fill in the gap. Our cancensus package is perfect for the job. This post is generated from an R markdown document, which is available on GitHub for anyone interested in refining this.
Canadian Metropolitan Areas It probably goes without saying that omitting Canadian cities from the list is more than just a small inconvenience.
Over the backdrop of Vancouver’s rising real estate values the exhibition of the “Vienna Model” at the Museum of Vancouver has triggered lots of discussions about what Vancouver could learn from cities like Wien. There are many angles to approach this, one of them that has received a lot of attention is the much larger proportion of government owned subsidized housing in Wien compared to Vancouver. In this post we want to focus on a different angle: land use.
The fate of young families in Vancouver is a frequent news topic. And as Vancouver is growing it is important to understand how families navigate the sometime challenging environment and what choices and compromises they make.
So we decided to take a closer look at where families and their children live in Vancouver over the last decade and how they fit into the rest of Vancouver. I had most of scripts already assembled over the long weekend to provide some data for a story by Mike Hager, so I decided to tidy things up and add some visuals.
