Jens von Bergmann
@vb_jens
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Data, analysis, visualization, #CensusMapper, transportation cyclist. Transitioning to bsky: @jensvb.bsky.social
Vancouver
Joined December 2013
Cross-posting for those who have not made the jump. (Also, it's nice over there where the air is fresher and skies are bluer, come join us!)
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Just in case there are people using CensusMapper or the data API/{cancensus} that have not yet made it over to the other place.
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Looks like one of the wrong stats got fixed, so that’s … progress? Would not want to get overly ambitious and fix all of the data issues at once. But anyway, wrong numbers is probably more of a symptom and only grazes the core of the issue here. Context:
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Cross-posting with delay as I continue to wind down my activity here, just in case people were mislead thinking that “foreign buying has spiked” in B.C. — it’s not a thing.
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Continuing to de-prioritize this space. If you have not seen it yet, {cansim} v0.3.17 is now on CRAN with enhanced metadata handling.
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The {cmhc} R package version v0.2.9 is now on CRAN. This update includes fixes to accommodate changes to the CMHC HMIP back end, as well as more intelligent guessing of desired frequencies for snapshot data.
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RT @WilliamYang120: Canada has posted a cyber attaché at its unofficial embassy in #Taiwan as Ottawa deepens co-operation with Taipei over….
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Policies that reduce the overall amount of housing are regressive. Building more housing puts downward pressure on rents of existing rental, policies that prevent this result in a net transfer of income from tenants to existing landlords.
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It’s worse than that, it’s not just that there is no below-maker rental. It’s that there is less rental overall. We are in a housing crisis and would be a better off with an extra floor of market rental than without.
A Secured Rental Policy proposal is at public hearing next Nov. 12th, 3983-3991 West 10th Ave. Once again this is a 5-storey proposal where 6 is allowed, because the inclusionary zoning requirement for 6-storeys is unviable. 20% of 0 is zero.
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Engaging read on the history of Sen̓áḵw through the forensic examination of news coverage of the time. Providing important context to the current public discourse around First Nation developments on a portion of this very site, and more broadly throughout the region.
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And they all seem to have ended up at the place where the air is cleaner and the sky is bluer. It's pretty nice over there, hope to see the rest of the thoughtful crowd make the switch.
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RT @SimonLewsen: Thanks for the kind words, Jens! Your data analysis was the centrepiece of the article. It changed the way I understand To���.
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RT @DerayZhem: An excellent piece that encapsulates so much of what is wrong with housing in Toronto.
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Good article looking into geographic disparities in density in Toronto, illustrating it with the example of two neighbourhoods.
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.@MikePMoffatt As an aside, another useful framing of this is that’s a “poop tax” on people who want to poop in the privacy of their own place. Bonus map of ~100k young adults confined to poop at their parents place in Vancouver.
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But Mike, you see, these taxes apply to very different groups of people. The $100/year extra hits hard-working homeowners while the $192,000 only hit people who want to enter the housing market, be it the entitled adult child wanting to move out or the parasitic in-migrant.
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