[Tiktaalik]

Re: 3 funny to see 1) how people often point to how we need "cheap and fast" simple housing to fix affordability issues, and then get mad at all the "cookie cutter" housing that results from the implementation of this idea.

and 2) these maligned "cheap and fast" building styles eventually become (at least somewhat) loved.

Looking at a generation of houses before the Vancouver Special, it's abundantly clear that all the 1910s era heritage homes one finds near downtown are also pretty much all tweaks on a similar core design, just like the Vancouver Special.

[afavour]

I wouldn't assume the both halves of 1) are the same people.