Ambiguity at home : unauthorized geographies of housing in Vancouver

At least 20 percent of the city of Vancouver's rental housing consists of unauthorized secondary suites -- apartments built without permits inside detached houses. Local authorities have largely come to tolerate the existence of such units, seeing them as a vital means of dealing with the city&...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mendez, Pablo
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/39746