Public Policy and Gentrification in the Grandview Woodland Neighbourhood of Vancouver, B.C.

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dc.contributor.authorKasman, Paul
dc.contributor.supervisorSpeers, Kimberly Marie
dc.contributor.supervisorSiemens, Lynne
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-14T22:53:54Z
dc.date.available2015-12-14T22:53:54Z
dc.date.copyright2015en_US
dc.date.issued2015-12-14
dc.degree.departmentSchool of Public Administrationen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Public Administration M.P.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractThe Grandview Woodland local area of Vancouver, British Columbia, is an area in transition. Retail, demographic, residential occupancy, and changes to built structures indicate that gentrification has escalated in the past seven years. Long standing impediments to gentrification, including industrial manufacturing, social housing, and crime, are not deterring change in this area to the extent they once did. This thesis examines how public policy has affected these changes in Grandview Woodland. Public policies embodied in laws and regulations have the capacity to either encourage or dissuade gentrification; however, other variables also influence gentrification making it difficult to determine the importance and influence of public policy in the process. This thesis uses semi-structured interviews and a document review in a case study of Grandview Woodland, to gain a better understanding of how public policies can influence gentrification in a local area where gentrification was previously impeded. The findings from this study suggest that public policies can have a substantial, but not autonomous, effect on gentrification in such an area. In Grandview Woodland, policy makers facilitate gentrification through city-wide and province-wide policies, including zoning changes, the Strata Title Act, and the Residential Tenancy Act. While these public policies have streamlined the advance of gentrification in Grandview Woodland, the catalysts for gentrification are the wider national trend of increased popularity of inner-city living, and the middle class moving eastwards in search of affordable homes in response to the massive property value increases in Vancouver’s West Side.en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0617en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0615en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0999en_US
dc.description.proquestemailp.b.kasman@gmail.comen_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/6924
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ca/*
dc.subjectGentrificationen_US
dc.subjectGrandview Woodlanden_US
dc.subjectVancouveren_US
dc.subjectPublic Policyen_US
dc.subjectIndustrial Integrationen_US
dc.subjectBritish Columbiaen_US
dc.subjectZoningen_US
dc.subjectStrata Title Acten_US
dc.subjectResidential Tenancy Acten_US
dc.subjectEast Vancouveren_US
dc.subjectReal Estate Pricesen_US
dc.subjectInner City Livingen_US
dc.titlePublic Policy and Gentrification in the Grandview Woodland Neighbourhood of Vancouver, B.C.en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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