How we'll read the housing file: numbers before narratives
Housing is the story every other Lower Mainland story eventually becomes. This desk's method: start from the filings and the data, and let the narrative earn its way in.
No beat in this region attracts more confident storytelling on thinner evidence than housing. This desk's working rule is to begin where the record is — applications, approvals, completions, vacancy and rent data — and to treat every narrative, hopeful or catastrophic, as a claim to be tested against it.
Every number we print will say where it came from. When sources disagree, we will show the disagreement rather than picking the convenient line.
If you are inside the file — tenant, landlord, builder, planner — and see something the numbers miss, the desk reads everything: tips@burrardbrief.ca.
