{"id":191,"date":"2007-01-15T16:14:31","date_gmt":"2007-01-15T23:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.hotpepper.ca\/archives\/2007\/01\/lethbridge-vacancy-rate\/"},"modified":"2007-01-15T16:14:31","modified_gmt":"2007-01-15T23:14:31","slug":"lethbridge-vacancy-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/2007\/01\/15\/lethbridge-vacancy-rate\/","title":{"rendered":"Lethbridge Vacancy Rate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wetaskiwintimes.com\/News\/280648.html\">Wetaskiwin Times Advertiser<\/a>, CMHC is reporting Lethbridge&#8217;s rental vacancy rate is at less than 1%.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lethbridge is seeing its vacancy rate tighten 2.1 percentage points from 2.7 per cent in 2005 to 0.6 per cent in 2006.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yet <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.hotpepper.ca\/archives\/2006\/12\/revitalising-downtown-lethbridge-high-density-housing\/\">one more reason<\/a> why high-density residential development should be encouraged in downtown Lethbridge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Wetaskiwin Times Advertiser, CMHC is reporting Lethbridge&#8217;s rental vacancy rate is at less than 1%. Lethbridge is seeing its vacancy rate tighten 2.1 percentage points from 2.7 per cent in 2005 to 0.6 per cent in 2006. Yet one more reason why high-density residential development should be encouraged in downtown Lethbridge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lethbridge"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4NkW7-35","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4259,"url":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/2020\/03\/11\/lethbridge-has-the-highest-property-taxes-in-alberta\/","url_meta":{"origin":191,"position":0},"title":"Lethbridge has the highest property taxes in Alberta","author":"Kim Siever","date":"11 March 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"I discovered that among all 18 Alberta cities, Lethbridge has the highest property taxes.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Lethbridge&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Lethbridge","link":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/category\/lethbridge\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/siever.ca\/kim\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/09\/monopoly-3427599_1920-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/siever.ca\/kim\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/09\/monopoly-3427599_1920-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/siever.ca\/kim\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/09\/monopoly-3427599_1920-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/siever.ca\/kim\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/09\/monopoly-3427599_1920-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/siever.ca\/kim\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/09\/monopoly-3427599_1920-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":609,"url":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/2009\/06\/27\/lethbridge-reaches-85000\/","url_meta":{"origin":191,"position":1},"title":"Lethbridge reaches 85,000","author":"Kim Siever","date":"27 June 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"This April, the City of Lethbridge conducted it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s annual census. 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