San Francisco has a comparable land area to Vancouver but accommodates roughly 30 per cent more residents.
housing affordability
The Wynne government almost exclusively targeted housing demand—not supply.
Home prices in the GTA have risen almost 50 per cent since the last provincial election in 2014.
Ontario’s housing plan limits rent increases to 1.5 per cent annually.
Vancouver secured $127 million in cash or in-kind CACs in 2016.
Doug Ford pledged to “open a big chunk” of Ontario’s Greenbelt, then changed his mind.
Without the OMB as a scapegoat, councillors must now make tough decisions themselves.
It takes nearly two years, on average, to obtain building permits in Vancouver.
Ontario’s government has doubled-down on rent controls, which mandate how much landlords can charge renters.
B.C.’s NDP government plans to spend at least $6.6 billion over 10 years on social housing.