Through thoughtful advocacy and experience-based opinions, architect David Davidson is quietly pushing Vancouver to adopt more progressive housing policies.
image of a persistent thorn in the side of the City of Vancouver . He doesn’t organize demonstrations or wave placards or deliver thundering speeches in council chambers. In fact, as he speaks about his projects in various forums—always in his thoughtful, even-toned way—he looks and sounds like he should be farming corn somewhere or maybe overseeing some bridge construction in a remote rural area.
passive-house construction— a type of construction that produces homes that are so well insulated and ventilated that they don’t need heating or cooling systems. Eventually, he got them to provide a density bonus two years ago—Davidson has been talking to others in the industry, attending city meetings and speaking out on social media constantly, giving his very experience-based opinions on which changes will work, and which ones won’t.
“It is always helpful when you’re talking to somebody who is actually building stuff,” says Russil Wvong, a volunteer with Abundant Housing Vancouver and a council candidate in 2022 with Kennedy Stewart’s Forward Together party. “They’ve got more on the line. These are people who have to make the numbers work.”
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