Understanding Canada: Vancouver's Housing Market
Canadians Dissecting Canadian Challenges
This session is being held in Vancouver, BC. A big thank you to our partners at Global Relay and Launch Academy for hosting this event!
Understanding Canada is a reading group nationwide hosted by Build Canada. Each session, interested minds gather to read & review Canadian reports & papers on policy, cultural, and economic challenges.
Together, we will investigate the deepest problems facing our country, comprehend the seemingly indigestible webs of information surrounding them, and craft new perspectives.
We encourage individuals of many backgrounds to attend this event. The more diverse the audience, the better the experience.
Session 3: Vancouver's Housing Market
In this session, we’ll be joined by special guest Russil Wvong, author of Vancouver Needs More Housing, for a deep dive into the forces shaping our city’s housing market.
Russil is a volunteer with Abundant Housing Vancouver and the Vancouver Area Neighbours Association, and has written extensively about why housing scarcity persists—even when there’s broad agreement that we need to build more.
He poses the question: “Why do we regulate new housing like it’s a nuclear power plant, and tax it like it’s a gold mine?”
Join us as we unpack this question—and others like it—through shared readings, breakout group discussions, and a collective conversation about what high-leverage change could actually look like for Vancouver and BC.
This Session's Readings:
Schedule
6:00 PM: Doors Open
6:30 PM: Session Begins
8:00 PM: Session Ends
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