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Originally Posted by geotag277
Unfortunately, to do this realistically in places like Vancouver, entire neighbourhoods zoned for SFH would have to change, and the huge resistance against that combined with the perpetual "foreign buyer boogeyman" means the conversation has turned into a "foreign buyer versus density" debate, instead of a "foreign buyer and density" debate - so nothing gets done.
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You're exactly correct -- this is an urban planning issue and rezoning SFH areas is the solution.
Unfortunately, the nationalist right that's flourishing in the West now has convinced most people that attacking the Chinese and other immigrants is the solution.