Gentle Density: Who’s Building BC’s Missing Middle
BC is in the middle of one of the most significant housing policy shifts in a generation. Missing middle and gentle density housing is moving from concept to reality, and the people shaping it are spread across government, development, construction, finance and the nonprofit sector.
Join PropTech Collective Vancouver for an evening that brings them into one room.
We’ll open with a short framing presentation on the state of missing middle housing in BC: what gentle density means, what’s changed in policy, who’s driving adoption and why this moment matters. Next is a fireside chat with Michael Mortensen of Liveable City Planning, moderated by Maria Yoma of Increminds, on how gentle density is playing out on the ground. From there, the evening is yours, with curated introductions and open networking across the ecosystem.
Agenda
5:00 PM | Doors open, drinks and networking
5:30 PM | Welcome and framing presentation
5:45 PM | Fireside chat
6:15 PM | Curated networking
7:30 PM | Close
Speakers
Michael Mortensen
Director / Founder, Liveable City Planning Ltd.
Adjunct Professor, UBC SALA
Maria Yoma (Moderator)
Founder & Partner, Increminds
Maria is an architect and urban economist building MIDL, a next-gen real estate development firm producing high-quality, industrialized mid-density housing for everyone in the middle. Her work is focused on one thing: accelerating attainable housing through thoughtful design and advanced manufacturing.
She is also the founder of Increminds, a human-centred product design and brand studio for the built environment. Based in Vancouver and working mostly with New York clients, she builds solutions that create meaningful relationships between people and places.
She started in urban transportation, leading public projects that took hours off the daily commute of 300,000 people. She went on to run historic buildings as Chief of Infrastructure, then pioneered one of Latin America’s first proptech venture labs, before most people knew what proptech was.
Who should attend
Municipal planners and policy leaders, builders, boutique developers, lenders, investors, nonprofits and anyone working to bring more housing options to BC communities.
About PropTech Collective Vancouver
PropTech Collective is a community for real estate and construction tech founders, operators, and investors. We bring together the people building the future of the built environment through events, conversations, and connections that matter.