Vancouver built up fast — now its older towers face an earthquake reckoning

Carlos Molina Hutt and I wrote about Vancouver’s seismically vulnerable 1960s-70s concrete towers for The Conversation — who bears the risk, who should pay for retrofits, and what cities like Los Angeles have tried.

The buildings house much of the city’s affordable rental stock. The people most reliant on them are also least able to recover from a disaster. It’s a genuinely hard problem.