I agree. There is a shortage of housing in Vancouver due to demand. The shortage is driving prices ever upward. Demand is, in effect, outstripping supply. Aside from attempting to control or reduce foreign purchases, there is not much else that can be done to discourage demand or to increase supply given the number of generational people and the even greater number of immigrants who want to live in Vancouver. 'Affordable' housing advocates are calling for significant number of affordable housing units to be built but do not stipulate what level of subsidy is expected or who will be expected to fund these subsidized units. A solution that calls for those who can barely afford to own or rent a home to pay for those that can't simply doesn't make any sense given the cost of the subsidies would make even fewer people able to pay the market price of a home. Handing the bill for someone's home to somebody to foot is no answer to this issue.