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  "id": 2390525,
  "title": "42% drop in Vancouver housing starts prompts worry from development advocate",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/21/42-drop-in-vancouver-housing-starts-prompts-worry-from-development-2390525",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-08-21T12:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
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    "url": "https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-housing-starts-drop-9.7315071"
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  "summary": "Housing starts in Vancouver are down 42 per cent compared with last July — a signal, according to a development advocate, that it's become too costly to build new homes.",
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        "title": "42% drop in Vancouver housing starts prompts worry from development advocate",
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  "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."
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