A Vancouver businessman says more public washrooms are needed in the city to keep human waste out of the public parkades.

So-called 'poor doors', or separate entrances for social housing tenants and condo owners or market renters, are the subject of polarizing debate.

"If you ask the city planners, 'Would you have allowed that building to be 57 storeys if it was just condos?' They would say, 'No.'"

"It would be great if 20 per cent of the housing in a city was created not by government, not by private developers, but by what we're calling the third sector," architect Michael Geller said.

There are 43 homes on East Broadway between Nanaimo and Rupert Street currently on sale for well over their assessed value - some as high as $3.4 million for a 33-foot lot.

Townline Homes Inc. is offering what it calls a "historic" zero per cent down offer on its development in Port Moody.

The City of Vancouver's ambitious plan for the Downtown Eastside goes to council Wednesday and there are concerns about whether the plan is the right solution for the troubled neighbourhood.