"How does 1 in 11 homes being bought up by foreign money not amount to an urgent situation for all levels of government?"  Yeah, sounds bad out there, JC12345.  Suggest you get your head out of (atypical) Richmond for a start.  Then read my comment.  

Metro Van. stat reported means about 90 foreign buys in November. That's, as you say, houses of ALL kinds.  Big deal.  So much for "selling off." Not all Asian, either.  Many likely from US and UK.   "Dirty money"?  So much for the 21st century "yellow peril."