How Vancouver Is Extra Kind to Land Speculators

In Vancouver today, rezoning doesn’t necessarily mean building. Increasingly, it means something else: securing “entitlements” — legal permissions that inflate a property’s value regardless of whether anything is actually constructed. Erick Villagomez writes. Erick is the editor-in-chief at Spacing Vancouver and teaches at the University of British Columbia’s school of community and regional planning. Published July 10, 2025. https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2025/07/10/Vancouver-Extra-Kind-Land-Speculators/