Umm Hello, meanwhile a tonne of houses in the GVA are empty! We don't need to pave the entire lower mainland with houses just so there are some affordable ones. What we need to do is increase the vacany tax rate on any property vacant more than 7 months a year until such a time as more of them a rented out. -->this doesn't mean homeless will be housed there, but what it will do is increase rental units on the market and thereby lower rents globally so many of the homeless can afford to live and rent in buildings again! The trickle up effect if you will....need to get more of the existing housing stock rented not pave over more land!

Paris has just voted to increase its vacancy tax to 60% of the fair market rent for such a dwelling from the previous 20%  Canadian cities should do the same. It is not always about building more, it is about strategically using the existing empty building stock! Yes it society's right not to have to build on the land whilst still keeping housing private.