Housing Without Fragility

 Housing Without Fragility

Day 5

I’m writing this from a hammock in Zipolite.

Roosters. Wind. Human scale.

Not perfect. But breathable.

Vancouver needs housing.

But housing is not just units per acre.

It is:

Infrastructure

Access

Employment land

History

Mechanical resilience

Social stability

If industrial land disappears, jobs disappear.

If towers rise without infrastructure planning, fragility increases.

If land becomes speculation, communities become temporary.

I am on a housing list near 12th & Cambie.

This is personal.

But it is also structural.

We must ask:

Are we building homes?

Or financial instruments?

Are we building resilient systems?

Or vertical dependency?

A city is not just height.

It is balance.