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I think a big part of this has been the skyrocketing cost of housing here. There is a lot of foreign investment in the real estate market and a lot of houses ar
by polishdude20 5y ago
I think a big part of this has been the skyrocketing cost of housing here. There is a lot of foreign investment in the real estate market and a lot of houses are just sitting empty. Give the people someone to blame when they can't afford to live here and you get hate.
It's funny because you can't blame the investors for doing this. They have money and they want to make more. Everybody does. These people committing these hate crimes can't connect the dots one step further and realize it's our government who sold out.
- bluefirebrand 5y agoThat's another thing I'm not sold on this article about. It's trying to connect this with Covid but really the animosity against Asians (Chinese in particular) has been brewing in Vancouver for like twenty years thanks to real estate speculation being largely blamed on Chinese investors.
- polishdude20 5y agoYeah among the younger crowd there's actually more of a respect towards Asians because many of them here started wearing masks very early into the pandemic when our government was saying they weren't useful.