This is actually a good trend. Just compare this to the alternative. San Francisco and Seattle, where the tech elite overprice the non-tech population, decimati

This is actually a good trend. Just compare this to the alternative. San Francisco and Seattle, where the tech elite overprice the non-tech population, decimating local communities and worsening the homeless problem. Vancouver and Irvine, where Chinese elite launder money to buy real state as investments (and leave them empty) rather than living spaces, resulting in the same problem. This all might be a silver lining of the pandemic: combined with remote work, people are no longer confined to one place - avoiding discrimination of all sorts (from real state to immigration). The truth is that if the rich are left unchecked, greed can run rampant and create more harm than good- ex: healthcare, stock bubbles.