July 22, 2025
In a sharply worded response to The Atlantic’s recent piece The Biggest Myth About the YIMBY Movement, Patrick Condon—James Taylor Chair in Landscape and Livable Environments at the University of British Columbia—rebukes what he calls the magazine’s “housing propaganda” and urges a more evidence-based debate on affordability. We support and share a related open letter from 27 well-known Metro Vancouver scholars, retired city planners, urbanists, developers and architects sent to Prime Minister Carney and Housing Minister Gregor Robertson, shared to us by Condon.
