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“Since the 1970s, Vancouver has tripled its total number of housing units. If adding housing supply and new density to a city leads to affordable housing as many now contend, Vancouver should have the lowest housing prices in North America. It has the highest!” Every policy that suggests just build more houses, just remove zoning restrictions, just reduce municipal development fees, just cut taxes, to solve the housing cost crisis will fail. The problem is housing as a vehicle for profit limits housing success to only the wealthiest. Austria’s Limited Profit Housing Association legislation offers an alternative that keeps affordable housing out of the speculative market and reduces rent in for profit housing #cdnpoli https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2024/07/19/Patrick-Condon-Why-Housing-Costs-So-High/ https://climateandcommunity.org/research/vienna-green-social-housing/ https://www.bmwet.gv.at/en/Topics/CulturalHeritage/HousingPolicy.html https://www.kuntarahoitus.fi/en/who-we-finance/affordable-social-housing