With an estimated 80,000 sold and vacant housing units in metro Vancouver, are there any other better answers out there to stop the commodification of housing?

China has over 60 million sold and empty units to satisfy their demand for housing as a commodity.

Raise your hand who here thinks that it is a good idea to emulate this.  How many vacant and underutilized housing units should Vancouver have?  More than the present estimated 25,000?  Fifty thousand?  A hundred thousand?

Vancouver is using the limited tools it has, since the Feds are in no way interested in restricting the ability of offshore money using Vancouver homes as a safety deposit box or a commodity.

Ask yourself - who should we be building our communities for?