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Hot, Hazy, Out of Control: Can We Cool Vancouver's Sizzling Housing Market?

Hot, Hazy, Out of Control: Can We Cool Vancouver's Sizzling Housing Market?
In search of Vancouver's $300,000 housing question. Photo by glasseyejack in Your BC: The Tyee's Photo Pool.

Vancouverites have always felt their city is special. Lately, that’s not been such a good thing. With prices for the average single-family home soaring past the million dollar mark and resident household incomes falling ever further behind, Vancouver has the dubious distinction of being the least affordable city in Canada -- and by some accounts the second least affordable in the entire world.

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In This Series

What 'Invisible' Money Adds to Vancouver Home Prices

What 'Invisible' Money Adds to Vancouver Home Prices

Mysterious purchasing power has created a $300,000 premium. First in a series.

Katie Hyslop / 13 Jul 2015


What Vancouverites Don't Know Is Hurting Our Housing Hopes

What Vancouverites Don't Know Is Hurting Our Housing Hopes

We know the data we need. Time to demand it, critics say. Second in a series.

David P Ball / 16 Jul 2015


How to Cool Vancouver's Home Price Fever

How to Cool Vancouver's Home Price Fever

Experts find much to be done, with inspiration from abroad and at home. Third in a series.

David P Ball and Katie Hyslop / 20 Jul 2015


Tiny Homes: Inexpensive and Cute, but Livable?

Tiny Homes: Inexpensive and Cute, but Livable?

Some swear by these 100 square-foot wonders. But Vancouver isn't convinced. Fourth in a series.

Katie Hyslop / 22 Jul 2015


Vancouver Mayor: City Is 'At a Breaking Point'

Vancouver Mayor: City Is 'At a Breaking Point'

Urgent action needed to cool housing market, but Gregor Robertson says he needs help. Last in a series.

David P Ball / 27 Jul 2015