Kyle's place is beautiful, modern, impeccably clean, and very comfortable. He's an excellent host with a great set of recommendations for both local food and activities.
His place is just a short 10-minute walk from the train / SkyTrain station, and many frequent buses run through the neighborhood going to downtown and everywhere else. It's also only a 5-10 minute walk from the historic Gastown district of Vancouver, full of small shops and great restaurants, and the local Chinatown neighborhood is also rich in excellent eateries.
The neighborhood is also home to a large number of social service organizations and affordable housing developments, and as a result many of the people in the neighborhood are those served by those social services (as is often found in parts of any large city). Because it's an urban center, there are also sounds of traffic at night and sometimes other commotion, so light sleepers may benefit from earplugs. However, it seems like a safe neighborhood overall and the building itself is definitely extremely secure. Would recommend for anyone comfortable traversing past patches of urban poverty - definitely worth it for the proximity and access to the rest of the city.