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The City of Vancouver is looking at the idea of reducing the maximum size of new detached homes as a way of promoting laneway home and multiplex construction.
Vancouver's plan to promote 'missing middle' housing includes discouraging new single-detached houses by shrinking their maximum size.
New building permit data show east Van homeowners adding suites, duplexes, laneway houses. It's mainly detached homes on the west side.
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Twenty per cent of the city’s homeowners are spending more than half their household income to cover the mortgage
Families or friends have long lived together to share expenses. But there's a new growing trend of strangers buying and sharing houses.