Sobia Moman
Sobia Moman covers Surrey’s housing and civic issues for the Vancouver Sun, focusing on how real estate decisions affect essential workers and community life. Her reporting sits at the intersection of municipal policy, affordability, and social services, bringing a community lens to a real estate beat. She draws on years of local news experience to connect individual stories to broader changes in housing, infrastructure, and public support systems.
Affordable housing and essential workers
Moman’s real estate coverage centres on affordable housing as a tool to retain and recruit essential workers. She follows city efforts to use housing policy, zoning, and partnerships to secure homes for health-care staff, first responders, and other key roles. She treats housing as both a labour and public service issue, asking what new units and funding models mean for local institutions and for residents who depend on them.
Her reporting links municipal planning decisions to workplace stability and the quality of services available in the community.
Local civic infrastructure and community services
Before joining the Vancouver Sun, Moman reported on local civic infrastructure, including new school construction and education facilities in South Surrey. She has covered community health and rehabilitation programs, such as fitness initiatives designed for stroke patients in White Rock, with attention to accessibility and long-term support. Her work also tracks how residents use public spaces and amenities, from waterfront areas during heat events to everyday community hubs, and how public health guidance shapes those experiences.
Across these stories, she reports in detail on how infrastructure projects and services are funded, built, and experienced by the people they are meant to serve.
Social issues and lived experience reporting
Moman brings a consistent focus on social issues and lived experience to her coverage. Her community reporting has examined the closing of a mental health assisted living home, documenting the impact on residents and earning recognition through a Canadian Community Newspaper Award for local civic journalism.
She has highlighted disability representation and inclusion, including a profile of an actor drawing on personal experience with autism to shape a film role.
In coverage of community tragedy, she has helped surface information on victim support resources and services, connecting affected families with practical avenues for help. This background informs a style of reporting that centres the people behind policies, facilities, and crises.
Community news background and current role
Moman built her career in community newsrooms as a news and features reporter, covering local stories across education, health, entertainment, and day-to-day civic life. Her bylines have appeared across multiple local outlets in British Columbia, reflecting a broad portfolio of community reporting. She now works as a Surrey reporter for the Vancouver Sun, bringing that on-the-ground experience into a beat that emphasizes real estate, housing, and municipal decisions affecting the city.
Her work combines accountability reporting on civic institutions with narrative detail drawn from residents, making her particularly attuned to stories where housing and public services converge.
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Addie Morfoot
Addie Morfoot covers how real estate, culture and media meet, focusing on people, rules and the way homes shape a life. She reports for The New York Times on housing and lifestyle, from personal narratives about finding a home after loss to features on how short-term rental policy affects everyday owners and renters. She writes real estate stories that connect laws and regulations to the choices available to ordinary residents in specific towns and cities. She is a regular contributor to the Sunday Routine franchise, following actors, comedians and designers through a typical day and showing how settings like homes, studios and subway cars shape daily experience. She also has a long track record covering documentary film and the entertainment business, including legal questions around fair use, changing docu-series formats, festival premieres and financing. Her portfolio spans more than two decades of work for The New York Times, Variety, The Wall Street Journal and Crain’s New York Business.
Alcynna Lloyd
Alcynna Lloyd is a real estate reporter and economic journalist at Business Insider whose work is distinct for treating housing as a core economic system people must navigate. She covers how housing markets, costs, and mobility shape everyday life decisions, connecting data on rents, home prices, and city trends with stories of people managing debt, multigenerational living, and moves abroad. Her beat centers on housing costs, renters, and household strategies, following renters pushing back against landlords and tracking “desperate home sellers” using concessions in unaffordable markets. A second strand of her coverage focuses on relocation, remote work, and cheap cities as everyday economic strategies. She regularly uses rankings and lists, such as best and worst states to buy a home and Rising Stars of Real Estate, and reads city housing and migration shifts as signs of broader economic change.
Alec Lazenby
Alec Lazenby covers how provincial politics and government decisions shape housing, real estate and the wider social fabric. He reports for The Vancouver Sun from the provincial legislature. His work examines HousingHub, middle-income rentals, affordability, stalled projects, empty condos, developer layoffs, municipal housing targets and land use. He also covers health, addiction, safer supply, involuntary care, water rights, resource management, Indigenous rights and Crown land. Lazenby connects policy language to specific buildings, rents, projects, services and people. He explains financial, regulatory and market pressures, then follows how institutions, professionals, developers, municipalities and affected communities respond. His reporting tests government goals against practical outcomes and shows how policy reversals, construction costs, interest rates and political accountability shape housing and public life.
Amir Ali
Amir Ali links housing, disputes, and oddball neighbourhood stories in case-based, street-level reporting for Daily Hive. He holds a senior editorial and writing role, listed on the masthead as part of Vancouver leadership and described as a staff writer. His core beat is real estate, especially the rental market and housing affordability, tracking rent ranges, market shifts, and how pressures land on people trying to stay housed. He also covers crime, civil tribunals, and mental health, explaining decisions and conflicts in plain language that focuses on timelines, behaviour, and outcomes. Ali writes offbeat hyperlocal features, traffic and transport disruptions, business, food, and general local news, often turning infrastructure, small businesses, and civic systems into tangible stories. A former radio producer, he brings tight pacing and clear stakes to written pieces and maintains an active social media presence as a broadcaster and writer.