Data, analysis, visualization, #CensusMapper, transportation cyclist.
📍Vancouver, BC
Jens von Bergmann
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New asking rent data out today, here 2-bedroom rents across several metro areas. canviz.mountainmath.ca/plot?v=16754...
Also a good reminder that Empty Homes Tax data offers a useful view into unadorned inventory. (As does the Speculation and Vacancy Tax data, but the 2025 municipal breakdown is not out yet.)
“Vox pivoted its message away from immigrants taking jobs and toward immigrants taking homes. Its leaders began blaming the country’s housing crisis on foreigners” — That’s how Housing Nationalism operates, as a platform to activate reactionary nationalism as @lausterna.bsky.social and I explained.
Give a nerd a chart or a map and they will waste a day. Teach a nerd how to make charts and maps and they will waste the rest of their life.
Passenger plane, designed by North American city planners and city councils.
(Also, economy seats pay an extra surcharge and take 4x as long to book)
Who lives in new housing? I built this dashboard showing the share of people who moved in the past year who came from another metro, >100 miles away, etc. The main takeaway: People moving longer distances aren't attracted by new housing. Read more here: domainexpansion.substack.com/p/the-call-i...
“The lesson for me is that scarcity is the ultimate gift to the far right,” Galindo said. “When there isn’t enough housing or public transit or health-care services for everyone, it’s so much easier to point a finger at immigrants than to address the actual causes of that shortage.”
Jens von Bergmann
The country’s leaders avoided a populist backlash by engineering an economic boom. Now the boom is creating problems of its own.
Using Census data, I built a dashboard that shows where people come from when they move into newly-built housing. It's mostly local. New housing doesn't attract rich people to your city.
“The lesson for me is that scarcity is the ultimate gift to the far right,” Galindo said. “When there isn’t enough housing or public transit or health-care services for everyone, it’s so much easier to point a finger at immigrants than to address the actual causes of that shortage.”
www.theatlantic.com
The country’s leaders avoided a populist backlash by engineering an economic boom. Now the boom is creating problems of its own.
Vancouver adding multiplex into the exemptions from Empty Homes Tax for new-builds currently offered to larger (5+ unit) buildings. Kind of fascinating how "missing middle" bumps into all these little categorical policies based on # of units (e.g. strata; insurance; etc).
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Give a man a beer and he'll waste a day. Teach a man to brew and he'll waste the rest of his life.
-Mitch Warner, today at a collab with Temporal
