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@onecityvan.bsky.social posted their housing platform. Lots to like: more housing options, more non market housing, better support for renters. Also, they're calling for affordable & accessible flats (like our Four/Five prototype 👇) to be allowed everywhere we already allow plexes and large homes.

More: www.onecityvancouver.ca/news/housing...

And yes we're channeling a retro futurism vibe with these prototypes. There was a lot of great urbanism at the start of the 1900s (before cars took over) and a lot of that same aesthetic can work well with modern passive house principles, low embodied carbon, and dense single stair urbanism.

Anyway, enough ranting about housing narratives that are past their due date, here’s a yard sign in the wild.

Also, vis a vis the original rendering. One commenter said (the least realistic thing is the Kei truck). To that person I offer this:

Are they street-legal in BC?

A few other variations on the FourFive in terms of style. The left one borrows heavily from our friends at MA&HG. The right borrows from one of our previous passivhaus projects. Given the political challenge with bringing apartments into detached 'hoods, the 'mod-wardian' is what we now lead with