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Housing in Vancouver is completely unsustainable no matter how much housing advocates crow about densification. There’s this belief that everyone should be able to live downtown, and it’s simply not going to happen.
The only solution is to expand out into the valley to enable people to live there but use transit to work downtown. Maybe if housing expanded out to Hope and had a high speed rail system to get downtown in under an hour we could get rents under $1500 a month for 2BR.
Nothing else is going to work.
I’m 100% gonna get downvoted by people who still believe everyone in Canada can live in the Tri Cities or have an argument against urban sprawl, however I’m a realist, not a dreamer.
Yeah... we've tried sprawl for decades and it doesn't work. We need more density: more homes and more amenities in close proximity to all rapid transit stations.
I fail to see how cramming more and more people into increasingly small spaces is going to solve the problem better than spreading people out around the province and preferably across the entire country.
People moving to less populated areas will bring their cost of living down.
Densifying didn’t work anywhere in the world if you want any quality of life.
I suppose people can live in capsule hotel sized homes, but why would anyone want to, and is that in the best interests of society?