Vancouver invests a great deal of political time and effort to pretending to create affordable housing. The problem is that the only way to actually reduce pric

Vancouver invests a great deal of political time and effort to pretending to create affordable housing. The problem is that the only way to actually reduce prices is to allow for more construction, and there are many and varied obstacles to doing so, including zoning commissions, NIMBY-ism, and developer/council interests (which are all often impossible to disentangle).