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In Vancouver the city plan shows no more single detached houses anywhere. Everything is at least a few stories high


Vancouver has real issues.

According to their plan:

> Our goal is 72,000 new homes across Vancouver in the next 10 years.

Unfortunately, if the Vancouver population continues to grow at an annual 1% rate, that means 275,000 new people to house. 72,000 homes would mean an average of 3.82 people in each of those new houses, which is just not realistic.

In short: Vancouver isn't even planning on building enough to be able to house everyone.

I'm not very familiar with the city, but clearly, their attempts to solve the housing issue are not actually serious if they're not even planning on building enough housing for everyone.




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