Action for home affordability needs to be taken, but I’m always weary of simply blaming foreigners, especially in Vancouver where there was always (since the 18

Action for home affordability needs to be taken, but I’m always weary of simply blaming foreigners, especially in Vancouver where there was always (since the 1800s) a lot of ethnically Chinese people. Way too many people use “foreigners” as a dog whistle term for “Chinese” and include Chinese Canadian ownership but exclude American foreign ownership (which is quite high if I remember correctly). I recall one controversial article from about 5 years ago that investigated “foreign ownership” by checking records for Chinese-sounding names since at the time citizenship wasn’t publicly available in real estate records. Clearly the wrong way to check, given that there are hundreds of thousands of ethnically Chinese Canadian people in the Vancouver area.