At the end of the day you need to pay someone to swing a hammer. When the City of Vancouver built its own below market city owned apartment at Main and 7th the

At the end of the day you need to pay someone to swing a hammer. When the City of Vancouver built its own below market city owned apartment at Main and 7th they hired local developer Marcon to build it. Marcon also builds for-profit condos all across the region. "Corporate money" being involved in the creation of housing is pretty unavoidable.