City planners in Vancouver have been trying to persuade developers to add multi bedroom condos, but new builds are very small, and still sell for well over a million dollars.  

Unlike sf detached which is showing recent flatlining in price, prices for condos and townhouses are on a double digit price trajectory. Helped along in no small part by the fact that entire developments are presold (and resold) overseas. And after completion,  much of this housing stock sits sold and empty. Despite a city rental vacancy rate of 1%.

If cities want meaningful change in accommodating working families, they have to look deeper than asking developers to kindly build larger units.  They need to examine the role that commodification of housing plays, including selling our housing stock overseas.