How is an $80,000 income equivalent to "the bottom 5 percent"?  The City of Vancouver's social housing policy is that anyone earning the median income and well above the median qualifies for social housing now.  Yes, anyone earning between $35K and $80K qualifies for social housing (which largely doesn't exist because the mayor  continues approving "luxury" developments whose bachelor suites are selling for $1M.  That's how bad things are.  It's not just the poor but the middle class income earners who are screwed.