If, in late 2024, you walked the shoreline in Vancouver beach to beach, through the laid-back and well-off Kitsilano neighbourhood and past the museums in Vanier Park, you’d arrive at a construction site where eleven residential towers rose from new foundations. This cluster of high-rises and skyscrapers—squeezed between the bridge and the water, neighbouring parks, and single-family homes—looks like a second downtown packed into just four blocks. It feels distinct from the rest of the city.
No one else can build like this in Vancouver—or almost anywhere in North America. In San Francisco, Boston, and other parts of Vancouver, zoning regulations have historically limited the height and density of new buildings, often to single-family homes with a yard. Reserves like Sen̓áḵw, though, are not bound by these regulations.
Posted by Mysterious-Rent7233
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Submission statement:
This is relevant because Neolibs love building housing and we love indigenous people and we love indigenous people building housing to shelter the global poor.
Every day (and I literally mean every single day) I think about how NIMBYism is ruining everything around me. And it makes me angry, like actual grind my teeth kind of angry. This is probably not healthy.
LAND BACK!!!