Metro Vancouver's Housing Crisis: A Huge Opportunity?

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We want to be around for the long haul and to meet the demand for quality, fact-based reporting in our public conversation. If you'd like to help us do that, please consider joining Tyee Builders.

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Metro Vancouver's Housing Crisis: A Huge Opportunity? — Skyrocketing real estate prices are forcing many Vancouverites to consider leaving or abandoning dreams of one day owning here. Could there be another option? Photo by David P. Ball

One in three Vancouverites can't afford what they pay for housing, if you believe the latest National Housing Survey. Throughout the greater Vancouver metro region, citizens call unaffordable housing a crisis in their communities. Yet housing remains low on both federal and provincial priority lists, and municipalities can only do so much.