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Solution Fluency- Housing Crisis

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Define:

Climate change is a huge problem in the world and causes alot of change in the pricing of things. The problem our group wanted to take a further look into is the housing crisis in Metro Vancouver. The housing pricing in Vancouver is going up rapidly and is making Vancouver very unlivable. It’s the third, least affordable city in the word.

Discover:

The housing price in Metro Vancouver is rising and is known as the most expensive city to live in, in Canada. The average cost of a house in Metro Vancouver is 1.3 Million dollars. To compare, the average cost of a house in Calgary is 400 thousand, thats more than 3 time less. The cost of rent in Metro vancouver has increased more than 20% in the last 9 months. The average rent cost of a house in downtown is over 2 thousand dollars a month. There are also over 5,000 homeless people living in the streets. The rent in Vancouver is even more expensive than New York, one of the most popular cities in the world.

Dream:

  • Our solution to this problem is to have the city buy a whole neighbourhood of properties and build a townhouse or an apartment.
  • We can also try expanding the city out further to make the “city” bigger.
  • We can build bigger apartments instead of houses.
  • We can build apartments up in West Vancouver since there is alot of space for building and they can make a seabus system from Stanley Park to West Van.
  • We can also try designing apartments beside eachother so that there are 4 of them in a square shape.
  • Or we can make apartments higher and less wide.

Debrief:

In Solution Fluency. I found alot of information online and reputable sources about the housing crisis in Metro Vancouver and stats from news and city sites. The city of Vancouver has plans set to make Vancouver more affordable to more people. A problem I ran into was finding solutions and ideas to this problem. Alot of the solutions would have to be decided by the City of Vancouver.

Deliver:

Sources:

https://vancouver.ca/people-programs/housing-vancouver-action-plan.aspx

https://vancouversun.com/business/real-estate/vancouver-falls-short-of-being-family-friendly

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/crea-housing-february-1.6385274