New building permit data show East Van homeowners are adding suites, duplexes and laneway houses, while its mainly detached homes on the west side.
And that, she said, must change because it is important that every neighbourhood is equally adding mixed-income housing suitable for families, so there is fair access to municipal amenities such as community centres and libraries. This is also true when it comes to schools, since the Vancouver school board has said“In addition to the planning piece around school capacity, we should also be adding more mixed-income housing in neighbourhoods with more parks and street trees,” Boyle added.
“So I think is starting to come. There’s definitely catching up to do, obviously, because the west side has not punched above its batting weight, so to speak, in the amount of density that’s delivered,” she said.Article content Vancouver’s challenge remains creating “missing middle” housing: affordable, low-rise homes in medium-density developments in neighbourhoods near parks and schools.
The data analyzed by Yan showed just over 1,000 new detached homes with no additional dwelling spaces have been built since 2017. More than 800 of them were west of Cambie Street, most in Dunbar-Southlands, West Point Grey, Kerrisdale and Arbutus Ridge.Article content Detached houses with at least one legal suite were the next most common, again with three out of every four in the east, most frequently in neighbourhoods such as Sunset, Kensington-Cedar Cottage, and Hastings-Sunrise.
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