Vancouver's Population Expansion Costs
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David Ley: Vancouver’s housing policy: A Faustian bargain
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Current plans envisage adding over 100,000 people, approximately the population of Nanaimo , to Vancouver .
The federal government’s failure to match unprecedented immigration targets against available housing and overstretched infrastructure indicates disturbing political blindness to the costs and needs accompanying rapid growth.
The goal of housing policy emphasized providing affordable homes for “the missing middle”.
David Ley : In an already built-up area such as Vancouver , new supply requires the demolition of existing units.
Working people, the elderly and students all experience the trauma of “demoviction” from newly vulnerable apartments and secondary suites in a housing market with minimal vacancies.
Ley: The effects of growth have not been offset by residential affordability through upzoning.
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