tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post8353867645708055654..comments2024-01-02T00:38:08.335-08:00Comments on Downtown Eastside Enquirer: Peter Ladner Hears Raymond Louie Discussing $100M Loan on CKNW and Angrily Phones InUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-77097215964523499232008-11-10T21:12:00.000-08:002008-11-10T21:12:00.000-08:00Above, I wrote: "If people want an insider's view"...Above, I wrote: "If people want an insider's view" from a "public housing developer." Allow me to clarify.<BR/><BR/>Truepeers and I have varying interpretations of "public housing," both definitions logical and coherent, though at definitional odds. Rotberg might well come down on Truepeers' side, though one would be well-advised to read Rotberg's work itself to decide either way.<BR/><BR/>To Daghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10664271893389366772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-84530668973521764402008-11-10T20:08:00.000-08:002008-11-10T20:08:00.000-08:00Dag, just a note or two on Rotberg.He is not, as I...Dag, just a note or two on Rotberg.<BR/><BR/>He is not, as I understand it, a developer (in Ontario) of "pubic" housing, nor even what we usually call public housing. I think he is developing privately-owned housing but under agreements with governments that provide certain kinds of loan benefits in return for the project providing low-rent housing to the working poor. <BR/><BR/>Also he is not truepeershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16401984575637492845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-12611679478498323952008-11-10T19:46:00.000-08:002008-11-10T19:46:00.000-08:00"... where anger is considered worse than criminal..."... where anger is considered worse than criminality."<BR/><BR/>Funny that you, Chilled, should raise that point, being parallel to Rotberg's central thesis that Vancouver is stuck with a "tolerism" or tolerance of the intolerable, which he writes of in the parable of the Lotus Eaters, based on Tennyson's poem: that Odysseus's companions, having alighted on the West Coast, in Howard's version, Daghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10664271893389366772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-46502691535935237232008-11-10T17:47:00.000-08:002008-11-10T17:47:00.000-08:00ANGER? Wowy, he just lost. This is the political...ANGER? Wowy, he just lost. This is the politically washed west coast where anger is considered worse than criminality.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556539813450690811.post-5514245916490472602008-11-10T12:38:00.000-08:002008-11-10T12:38:00.000-08:00On the topic of housing in Vancouver, Canada, yest...On the topic of housing in Vancouver, Canada, yesterday saw the appearance of Howard Rotberg, lawyer and pubic housing developer, reading from his latest book, "Exploring Vancouverism: The political culture of Canada's Lotus Land." If people want an insider's view of corruption in the business of development here, Rotberg's book is a great awakener to scandal and corruption.<BR/><BR/>Howard spokeDaghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10664271893389366772noreply@blogger.com