It's always worthwhile to see what readers are most interested in, without letting "popularity" dictate the issues a newspaper should take on.
Who would have thought that three columns on Metro Vancouver’s most wealthy, and struggling, neighbourhoods would top readers’ curiosity in 2023?
Beyond that, I think Canadian readers understand why nine of my top 10 columns related to housing, particularly the crisis for those outside the market.
Here are the 10 most-read columns of last year:
1. The crumbling of Vancouver’s wealth Point Grey Village
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How Point Grey Village’s now-bleak shopping zone lost its vibrancy offers lessons for across the region.
2. Big houses, big lots: Shaughnessy, Vancouver’s ultra-rich, ghostlike neighbourhood, unlikely to change
A lot of people want to see fewer mega-mansions and more people in Shaughnessy, where the population has steeply declined. But it won’t be easy.
3. The deterioration of West Vancouver’s wealthy Ambleside Village (Part 1)
West Vancouver is home to 42,000 people living in some of Canada’s most expensive real estate but, like other affluent neighbourhoods, its shopping district is struggling.
4. The beleaguered balcony is wide open to a rethink
Many apartment balconies expose householders to harsh weather, traffic noise, pollution, vertigo and the eyes of strangers. Here are some ways to redeem them
5. The three big things impacting Vancouver’s crazy housing prices
Californians taken aback by vast gap between house prices and wages in Vancouver.
6. Massive Brentwood towers trigger questions about Burnaby’s planning
The 40- to 60-storey modernistic towers rising up around Burnaby’s Brentwood town centre are not well integrated with the community, say critics.
7. Five forces contorting Canadian house prices this spring
Mortgage rates, changing psychology, Canada’s vulnerability, large volumes of investors and migration policy are squeezing the country’s housing market.
8. Housing crisis as seen by one of Canada’s biggest developers
With young people facing a “very, very tough market” and neighbourhoods changing rapidly, Polygon Homes’ Michael Audain knows developers are held in low esteem.
9. It’s a problem when kids whose parents don’t own end up as non-owners
What happens to equality when young adults who don’t have homeowner parents are far less likely to be able to buy a dwelling?
10. Foreign-student dreams being crushed in greedy Canada
It’s exploitation of developing nations, a new form of colonialism, says one critic
11. Victoria imam condemns Israel, and Muslims who voted for Trudeau
12. The Wild West in B.C. housing is mostly over, but the devastation goes on
13. Future of Vancouver’s Jericho Lands to be revealed
14. Trudeau’s defiance of India ‘killing two birds with one stone’
15. Federal Liberals are directly inflating housing prices
16. Is Vancouver narcissistic? A global study suggests some humility is in order.
17. Hindu Canadians are distressed and politicians need to take heed
18. Why has Europe been spared Canada’s fentanyl disaster?
19. Major Canadian developer fears ‘the bad guys are winning’
20. There are cons, not just pros, for a subway to UBC
Astonishing findings on Canadian ethnic groups’ earnings and education (Published in Feb., 2022)
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