{
  "id": 12637437,
  "title": "Opinion: B.C.’s big cities must do better to fix the housing crisis",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/07/opinion-b-c-s-big-cities-must-do-better-to-fix-the-housing-crisis",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-07T13:00:53.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Vancouver Sun",
    "slug": "vancouver-sun",
    "url": "https://vancouversun.com/opinion/op-ed/opinion-bc-big-cities-must-do-better-to-fix-the-housing-crisis"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Alex Hemingway: Cities too often use their powers, including deciding what can be built on a lot, to restrict housing or make it too expensive to build while forcing much of the new housing that is allowed onto noisy, polluted main roads",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}