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by jlev1 1021 days ago
Tripled its housing supply since 1960 according to that article. Meanwhile Vancouver’s population went up by more than 4x. So it doesn’t seem surprising affordability would get worse!

Edit: Patrick Condon (who wrote that biv.com article) seems terrible. Here he is opposing connecting UBC to Vancouver’s SkyTrain: https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2019/01/29/Last-Voice-Against-Sky...

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> Meanwhile Vancouver’s population went up by more than 4x.

My point exactly. Meanwhile Canada has had sub-replacement fertility since 1973:

https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/CAN/canada/fertility-r...