Has home affordability actually improved in Vancouver? - The Globe ...



The B.C. government unveiled a foreign-buyer's tax last summer aimed at tamping down Vancouver's runaway real estate market and making homes more ...


BC Election 2017: Parties tackle hot-button issue of housing affordability, in their own ways

Home prices and incomes in Metro Vancouver have become so wildly detached, B.C. real estate economists and experts say, that improving affordability in a meaningful way will be difficult and require profound changes.




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