[epistasis]

What sort of demand side solution are you considering? Housing is a basic necessity of life. Perhaps by reducing demand you mean that instead of one family living in a single family home, demand for living space is reduced so that two families live in the same space?

[jjav]

> Housing is a basic necessity of life.

It certainly is and should be a fundamental human right.

However, living in Vancouver specifically isn't a necessity. There are more affortable places.

In my 20s my dream was to live in Manhattan, I wanted it so bad. Never made it, way too expensive. Had to give up that dream. A couple decades later I still occasionally wish it could've been, but never was. I have a nice house and built a nice life elsewhere.

Not to take away from efforts to build more and affordable housing in the big cities, which is good and necessary. But want to point out that the idea that everyone can get to live in NYC/SF/Vancouver on the cheap isn't quite a realistic position to take either. Often the most pragmatic solution is to find a different city to live in.

[epistasis]

> But want to point out that the idea that everyone can get to live in NYC/SF/Vancouver on the cheap isn't quite a realistic position to take either.

This is a common NIMBY trope: "everyone" wants to live here and that's impossible, so we shouldn't try.

It's false in that not everyone wants to live in Vancouver/NYC/SF, far from it. But, it's easy to allow everyone who wants to to live in these places. In another comment you expressed the desire to keep your place in the city, without the burden of rising property taxes that go with your massive financial gains. Why should you get that, but not somebody else? On what basis do you privilege your own basic needs over others? That's no way to run a society, saying "got mine, forget all the rest of you."

[jjav]

> without the burden of rising property taxes that go with your massive financial gains

I clearly did not say that. I said that as a homeowner, I'd prefer that the value didn't go up at all. I don't want massive paper gains.

> But, it's easy to allow everyone who wants to to live in these places.

History is showing us it isn't very easy, so I'm curious what is the plan to make it easy?

[Schiendelman]

Delete zoning code. It shouldn’t have been legal in the first place - the intent has always been keeping minorities out of neighborhoods.