Mark Holland

Planner, Real Estate Development Consultant, Professor Vancouver Island University

[Mark Holland @markstrategy]

@LcpVan @KahlonRav @gregorrobertson Then we don’t have to borrow for all the years of construction to pay them - which serves no public interest. And the impacts to infrastructure and community facilities do not start until people move in.

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@michael_wiebe This is based on faulty assumptions of infinite zoned and serviced land available. In reality land is an inelastic good and will not absorb additional costs.

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@michael_wiebe It’s an absurd position. The costs of housing inputs will never bring costs down to that low a price. He would also then have to prove that where housing is half the cost of Vancouver, everyone would own two homes.

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@RyanJabs @MurdochOakBay @Ravikahlon Since the targets were given, oak bay has responded by massively increasing dccs, accs, and adding a punishing anti blasting bylaw.

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@Rishi_ss @saanich Congratulations Rishi. Well deserved

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@GenSqueeze Do your research. It’s been this way since. Martin was minister of finance. It’s multiple generations in the making. Nothing new.

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@Sam_Robbins3 @MikePMoffatt Financiers typically require 30% of costs are paid by equity and a minimum 15% profit margin to offset the major risks associated with the 70% debt.

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@CraigFarlinger @RJSCity Total land value is not the issue. It’s land value per unit that matters.

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@SahilBloom Generations of dysfunction, abuse, arrogance, lies and stupidity. Claustrophobia squared. Be honest!

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@michael_wiebe The problem with Condon’s argument is it presumes endless land is available so land prices respond to small development cost changes. In reality the Inelasticity of land values in a highly regulated environment makes the argument untrue.

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@rrrobbberttt You’re comparing apples and oranges. It certainly will make the poor happier AND damage future housing supply.

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@LcpVan Master plans - it’s all in the servicing and access costs of phase 1 held against absorption rates of a promised neighbourhood before it exists.

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I just watched a tweet of the trump assassination attempt. One tweet later was an advertisement for a company that builds personal safety bunkers. What is our world coming to!

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@LcpVan I couldn’t believe they published this article. More truth in this article than a decade of editions.

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@AustinTunnell @cnunextgen Okanagan numbers = over 60% increase in cost of construction since 2019.

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@Lanefab Thanks for your leadership. I remember you being a strong advocate for lane housing as we all came out of school. Stellar career!

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@acoyne We’re “working on 2%”

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@mattdellok Yes to both

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@BobRansford @PierrePoilievre What does “ stand with” mean? Nothing but virtue signalling.

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@StandingHannah @MikePMoffatt Ad hominem