One City Might Have Just Cracked the Housing Crisis

Imagine that 10 acres of land in the middle of your city was unbound from the laws that limit housing construction. No zoning. No neighborly lawsuits. No reviews by the Department of You Can’t Build That or its sister agency, the Department of Slow Down.

It sounds like a wand-waving, deus ex machina solution to the housing crisis that is gripping North American cities. But it is happening right now, and in one of the most unlikely places imaginable: Vancouver,........

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