The city of Vancouver has over 10,000 sold and empty housing units. In adjacent Richmond, 47% of the housing stock in the city centre is sold and vacant.

Until such time we address the commodification of housing, until such time working citizens and residents do not have to compete with offshore money, until such time citizens and residents don't have to compete with an ever increasing flow of overseas students, TFWs, and hundreds of thousands of people living here on renewable ten year visas, then we will not end homelessness.

Not in a city that lays title to the most unaffordable city in North America to purchase, not in a region with a rental vacancy rate of well under one percent.

In metro Vancouver you cannot even dare to dream.