Benjamin Van Meter

Optimist / builder / craft / systems.
Studio @aftfoundry. Past @uwaterloo.
Now: Vancouver.

[Benjamin Van Meter @bkvanmeter]

Opened a small studio in Vancouver (Kitsilano).

Something I've wanted to do for years — create a place in the city where friends can reach, work on projects, share ideas, hack into the night, etc.

Follow along for studio journals and project updates. ✨

[Afternoon Foundry @aftfoundry]

Good Afternoon

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Overcast summer evenings are the best for building

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Going to install @NousResearch’s Hermes on my modded Lululemon Mirror as an office assistant / heads-up-display 🫡

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@ndrewhitchcock Huge 🔥

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@pxue Interested!

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@AtownBrown @capacitr_xyz lfggg huge 🔥

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@joshfgray_ Ayy I'll report back 🫡

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Blessed day in Kitsilano to turn tokens into loonies

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@fabulavancouver 'Save'?

The government should be defining and evolving market policy, not becoming the greatest market participant; especially if this is an affordability measure.

If you want the market to clear faster, you change market policy by introducing a vacancy tax for example.

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@fabulavancouver 'Save'?

The government should be defining and evolving market policy, not becoming the greatest market participant; especially if this is an affordability measure.

If you want the market to clear faster, you change market policy by introducing a vacancy tax for example.

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@sarbjitkaur1 I think we can agree this is economically illiterate/unsound policy and probably the worst rollout of our lifetime.

Carney, Eby, Robertson and Boyle contradicted each other at every media appearance!

https://t.co/x9UvmjZduo

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@gregorrobertson Those units are sitting empty because they haven't found fair market value. This is market manipulation and perpetuation of moral hazard, fundamentally anti-capitalist.

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@vancolour Appreciate your ability to navigate and speak to this topic Mo, thank you for your service sir. 🫡

https://t.co/x9UvmjZduo

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@gregorrobertson Those units are sitting empty because they haven't found fair market value. This is market manipulation and perpetuation of moral hazard, fundamentally anti-capitalist.

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@MarkJCarney The Government subverting proper price discovery undermines the greatest instrument at it's disposal for creating affordable housing, the free market, at a time when it was rectifying itself.

The Government is now our greatest competitor in the housing market.

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@BIVnews The Government subverting proper price discovery undermines the greatest instrument at their disposal for creating affordable housing, the free market, at a time when it was rectifying itself.

The Government is now your greatest competitor in the housing market.

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@fabulavancouver Beyond the question of price, the Government subverting proper price discovery undermines the greatest instrument at their disposal for creating affordable housing, the free market, at a time when it was rectifying itself.

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@gregorrobertson The 2,200 units planned for purchase within Ontario would be 11x GTA monthly sales at latest figures (month of May), almost an entire year’s worth of GTA condo sales!

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@gregorrobertson The Government is backstopping the housing market by purchasing 4,400 condo units across British Columbia and Ontario, removing supply from the free market.

In addition to determining market policy itself, the government is now your greatest competitor in the housing market.

[Benjamin Van Meter @bkvanmeter]

@gregorrobertson The Government is backstopping the housing market by purchasing 4,400 condo units across British Columbia and Ontario, removing supply from the free market.

In addition to determining market policy itself, the government is now your greatest competitor in the housing market.

[Benjamin Van Meter @bkvanmeter]

@gregorrobertson The Government is backstopping the housing market by purchasing 4,400 condo units across British Columbia and Ontario, removing supply from the free market.

In addition to determining market policy itself, the government is now your greatest competitor in the housing market.

[Benjamin Van Meter @bkvanmeter]

@ronmortgageguy Exactly, if the market isn’t clearing fast enough you address that with an Empty Homes Tax applicable to those units, not by buying supply. https://t.co/wBeD36QfgS

[Benjamin Van Meter @bkvanmeter]

@gregorrobertson Those units are sitting empty because they haven't found fair market value. This is market manipulation and perpetuation of moral hazard, fundamentally anti-capitalist.