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  • Housing Outcomes Aug 17 2023
  • Housing targets Jun 27 2023
  • Metro Vancouver Planning Regimes Jun 20 2023
  • Investing in definitions and framing Feb 20 2023
  • A Brief History of Vancouver Planning & Development Regimes Feb 6 2023
  • Analyzing Ballot Composition in Vancouver Dec 17 2022
  • New Premier New Housing Policy Nov 24 2022
  • Still Short: Suppressed Households in 2021 Oct 3 2022
  • Where did all the cheap rents go? Sep 27 2022
  • Rent growth in GDP Sep 12 2022
  • 25 Years of Structural Change Aug 18 2022
  • Tumbling turnover Jul 29 2022
  • A brief history of Canadian real estate investors Jun 30 2022
  • Ins and outs of CMHC data Jun 12 2022
  • Residential mobility in Canada May 27 2022
  • Nanaimo Station May 21 2022
  • On Broadway May 17 2022
  • Children are good, actually May 11 2022
  • Estimating Suppressed Household Formation May 6 2022
  • Planning for scarcity Apr 26 2022
  • What’s up with Squamish? Mar 30 2022
  • UBCM Shenanigans Mar 29 2022
  • Vacancy rates and rent change, 2021 update Feb 18 2022
  • Census quirks; using UBC area as an example Feb 17 2022
  • Deadbeat Neighbourhoods Feb 15 2022
  • Unoccupied Canada Feb 14 2022
  • Deadbeat zoning Feb 11 2022
  • Canada's 2021 census, part 1 Feb 9 2022
  • No shortage in Housing BS Jan 31 2022
  • First Peek at Population and Household Data During COVID & Caveats Nov 28 2021
  • Three Years of Speculation & Vacancy Tax Data Nov 21 2021
  • Acting locally on housing Nov 20 2021
  • CensusMapper (p)review Oct 17 2021
  • Fixing parking Oct 3 2021
  • Elections fun - 2021 edition Sep 25 2021
  • Transnational property ownership in Canada Sep 7 2021
  • Thoughts on vaccine effectivess estimates Aug 30 2021
  • Satellites, Sprawl, and City Six-Packs Aug 21 2021
  • Commodity and Keeping it in the Family Aug 13 2021
  • Lots of Opportunity: Estimating the Zoning Tax in Vancouver Jul 25 2021
  • Basement Confidential: Vancouver's Informal Housing Stock Jun 8 2021
  • Forced Out in Canada: New Data from CHS Mar 29 2021
  • Vaxx vs VOCs Mar 10 2021
  • Data variants Mar 4 2021
  • On COVID and exponential growth Feb 21 2021
  • Industrial Strength Zombies: Vancouver Edition Feb 10 2021
  • Bartholomew's dot destiny Feb 3 2021
  • On COVID Trend lines Jan 30 2021
  • Rethinking the "foreignness" of owners living abroad Jan 25 2021
  • Capital Gains Income Jan 15 2021
  • Vancouver's pandemic weather Jan 6 2021
  • BC back to (COVID) school Jan 2 2021
  • Covid testing data in BC Dec 21 2020
  • What to Expect from an Empty Homes Tax Dec 7 2020
  • TongFen Nov 10 2020
  • COVID-19 Data in BC Oct 22 2020
  • CHS Core Housing Need Oct 2 2020
  • First-time buyer Lorenz curves Sep 28 2020
  • Income mixing and segregation Sep 21 2020
  • Covid school modelling Sep 8 2020
  • Keeping the Leavers Aug 27 2020
  • Covid Series 3 Survey Aug 25 2020
  • Canadian 1996 Census Jul 6 2020
  • On mixing covid-19 and census data May 27 2020
  • Projections and self-fulfilling prophecies May 25 2020
  • Toward universal TongFen: Change in polling district voting patterns May 20 2020
  • COVID-19 data in Canada, effective reproduction rates May 13 2020
  • Census tract level T1FF tax data Apr 23 2020
  • COVID deaths in context by weeks Apr 19 2020
  • Covid-19 data in Canada Apr 10 2020
  • Context for Covid-19 mortality so far Mar 31 2020
  • Behaviour change in response to COVID-19 Mar 22 2020
  • Knock Knock, Anybody Home? Mar 9 2020
  • Overnight Visitors and Crude Travel Vectors Mar 3 2020
  • Wealth vs income Feb 19 2020
  • Disaster response maps Feb 2 2020
  • Mythical oversupply Jan 27 2020
  • Unoccupied dwellings data Jan 26 2020
  • Keep on moving Jan 24 2020
  • 2019 CMHC Rental Market Survey Jan 15 2020
  • Flow Maps Jan 6 2020
  • Fun with parking tickets Dec 9 2019
  • Property tax snacks Nov 26 2019
  • Canadian Housing Survey Nov 23 2019
  • Commuter growth Oct 29 2019
  • Elections fun Oct 22 2019
  • Rents and incomes Oct 17 2019
  • Rents and vacancy rates Oct 16 2019
  • Spatial autocorrelation & co Oct 7 2019
  • Job vacancies Sep 6 2019
  • Low income vs new dwellings Sep 2 2019
  • Running on Empties Aug 19 2019
  • MIRHPP tradeoffs Aug 12 2019
  • On Vancouver population projections Aug 1 2019
  • Taxing Toxic Demand: Early Results Jul 14 2019
  • Shaughnessy Townhomes Jul 7 2019
  • How not to analyze the roots of the affordability crisis Jun 25 2019
  • Frequent transit zoning Jun 21 2019
  • Some notes on investor and corporate ownership of residential properties Jun 18 2019
  • Census custom timelines Jun 15 2019
  • Simple Metrics for Deciding if You Have Enough Housing Jun 12 2019
  • Vancouver population density over time Jun 9 2019
  • Multi-Census Tongfen Jun 4 2019
  • 2001 Census Data (and TongFen) Jun 3 2019
  • Population weighted densities Apr 24 2019
  • A bedroom is a bedroom Apr 20 2019
  • VSB X-Boundary Apr 15 2019
  • Density timelines Mar 27 2019
  • City density patterns Mar 17 2019
  • Airbnb updates Mar 2 2019
  • Tax Speculations Feb 27 2019
  • Planned displacement Feb 21 2019
  • Vancouver renters Feb 15 2019
  • Vancouver election individual ballots Feb 4 2019
  • There is no Brain Drain, but there might be Zombies Feb 3 2019
  • The Fleecing of Canadian Millenials Jan 31 2019
  • High-value homes Jan 9 2019
  • How are condos used? Dec 17 2018
  • Moving Penalty Nov 28 2018
  • Vacancy rate and rent change Nov 28 2018
  • Understanding income distributions across geographies and time Oct 28 2018
  • Toronto wards Oct 22 2018
  • The rise and fall of Vancouver eligible voters Oct 17 2018
  • Naked Buildings Map Oct 16 2018
  • Council candidate neighbourhoods Oct 13 2018
  • Airbnb and STR licences Aug 21 2018
  • Gross migration Aug 16 2018
  • Taxing property instead of income in B.C. Aug 10 2018
  • Active Fire Jul 28 2018
  • Fact-checking Vancouver’s Swamp Drainers Jul 22 2018
  • Making Room Jul 17 2018
  • Aboriginal overrepresentation in correctional services and police checks Jul 13 2018
  • Skytrain rents Jun 21 2018
  • Interprovincial Migration Jun 14 2018
  • Vancouver Streets and Lanes Jun 4 2018
  • Extra School Tax Calculator May 28 2018
  • Short Term Rental Licenses May 25 2018
  • Teardowns and Emissions May 23 2018
  • Building Height Profiles May 11 2018
  • A modest school-tax proposal May 1 2018
  • Frontage Mar 28 2018
  • Transit Data Mar 12 2018
  • Extra School Tax Feb 28 2018
  • Taxable Dwelling Density Feb 24 2018
  • Building Permits Feb 22 2018
  • Neighbourhood Level Census Data Feb 8 2018
  • Real Estate Industry Feb 1 2018
  • Empty Suites Jan 25 2018
  • Pedestrian counts, or when the kindergardener needs to use the bathroom Jan 12 2018
  • Local vs Overseas Investors Jan 11 2018
  • School Traffic Jan 9 2018
  • Some Thoughts on the “Supply Myth" Dec 11 2017
  • What’s a Household? Dec 1 2017
  • Journey To Work Nov 29 2017
  • Under Construction Nov 28 2017
  • Byelection Data Nov 21 2017
  • StatCan Web Maps Nov 15 2017
  • Renting in Toronto Nov 7 2017
  • Updated Foreign Buyers Data Nov 2 2017
  • Playing with Medians Nov 1 2017
  • A First Look At Vancouver Housing Data Oct 26 2017
  • Trick-or-Treat 2017 Oct 23 2017
  • Boomer Exodus? Oct 21 2017
  • VSB Vulnerable Students Oct 15 2017
  • A Retrospective Look at NHS Income Data Sep 29 2017
  • Reproducibility Sep 27 2017
  • Evolution of the Income Distribution Sep 26 2017
  • Zoned for Who? Sep 18 2017
  • Income - A First Look Sep 14 2017
  • Amazon - The Canadian Data Sep 9 2017
  • The Vienna Model Sep 8 2017
  • Young Families Sep 5 2017
  • dot-density Aug 24 2017
  • Density Aug 23 2017
  • Millennials Redux Aug 6 2017
  • Lifeblood May 16 2017
  • Surprise Maps Apr 10 2017
  • Marine Gateway and Joyce-Collingwood Apr 3 2017
  • Comparing Censuses Mar 22 2017
  • RS Population Change Mar 6 2017
  • Transit Explorer Mar 1 2017
  • More on Teardowns Feb 21 2017
  • 2016 Census Data - Part 1 Feb 10 2017
  • Jane Jacobs' Vancouver Jan 25 2017
  • Bumper Year for Thumb Twiddlers Jan 18 2017
  • The Coveted $1.2m - $1.6m Vote Jan 17 2017
  • 2017 Vancouver Assessment Data Jan 16 2017
  • Updated Property Tax Data Dec 13 2016
  • Character Retention Nov 26 2016
  • Interactive Isochrones Nov 18 2016
  • Trick-or-Treat 2016 Oct 21 2016
  • Secondary Suites and Taxes Oct 4 2016
  • Measuring Housing Affordability Sep 14 2016
  • Quick Guide to Income Data Aug 31 2016
  • Mobi Running Stats Aug 24 2016
  • Mobi -- a First Look Aug 16 2016
  • What's up with RT? Aug 4 2016
  • Bike Share Map Jul 26 2016
  • Mixing Data Jul 6 2016
  • SDH Zoning and Land Use Jun 17 2016
  • FSR May 20 2016
  • My Global Bike Map May 16 2016
  • Census Mapping for Everyone May 4 2016
  • Census Week May 2 2016
  • TOD Mode Share Apr 20 2016
  • TOD Apr 6 2016
  • On Houses and Dirt Apr 1 2016
  • On Mixed Use Mar 28 2016
  • Surrey Traffic Loop Counts Mar 27 2016
  • Unoccupied Dwellings Mar 8 2016
  • Physical SFH Form Over Time Mar 5 2016
  • Property Taxes and Land Use Mar 2 2016
  • Land Use, Roads (and Parking) Feb 29 2016
  • On Condos Feb 10 2016
  • Loss of Character Feb 1 2016
  • Land Use Data Jan 31 2016
  • Work vs Twiddling Thumbs Jan 24 2016
  • On Teardowns Jan 18 2016
  • Updated Vancouver Assessment Data Jan 17 2016
  • Canvas vs SVG Dec 27 2015
  • Bike Data Dec 15 2015
  • Bike Routing Dec 14 2015
  • How to make a bike map Dec 13 2015
  • Census Drilldown Oct 24 2015
  • Census Mapper Sep 28 2015
  • The Hidden Mortgage Aug 25 2015
  • Vancouver 2011 Census Data on Housing Jun 23 2015
  • Tax Density in Vancouver May 31 2015
  • Vancouver Bike Paths Apr 1 2015
  • Vancouver Assessment Data Mar 23 2015
  • Mapping CACs Nov 5 2014
  • Vancouver High Value Improvements Map Sep 7 2014
  • Vancouver Teardown Map Sep 5 2014
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