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Opinion: Voting at Vancouver city council: A puzzle, a vexing puzzle

What is puzzling to residents is that on significant housing and development issues, government and opposition have coalesced into a single voting bloc — councillors have accepted, without evidence, the argument that more housing supply means more home affordability.

Opinion: Voting at Vancouver city council: A puzzle, a vexing puzzle

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What is puzzling to residents is that on significant housing and development issues, government and opposition have coalesced into a single voting bloc — councillors have accepted, without evidence, the...

David Ley: What is puzzling to residents is that on significant housing and development issues, government and opposition have coalesced into a single voting bloc — councillors have accepted, without...

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What is puzzling to residents is that on significant housing and development issues, government and opposition have coalesced into a single voting bloc — councillors have accepted, without evidence, the argument that more housing supply means more home affordability.

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What is puzzling to residents is that on significant housing and development issues, government and opposition have coalesced into a single voting bloc — councillors have accepted, without evidence, the argument that more housing supply means more home affordability.

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