Allowing duplexes in Vancouver will increase land values, at least a little

Vancouver city council’s decision to rezone 99 per cent of single-family home areas to allow duplexes has set off a debate over whether it will significantly increase land values.
Josh Gordon, an assistant professor at Simon Fraser University’s School of Public Policy, said he doubts values will go up much.
He said the rezoning didn’t change the limits on the total square footage that can be built on single-family lots. That would temper speculation, he said, because it wo