I don't think it should be a problem that Vancouver doesn't have a declining population, but it's not to incentivize more people to move in. It's to basically do the lightest form of government intervention you can do and utilize the same capitalistic system without like completely undermining it as a low cost alternative. But because that system is not funded at all and has actually been, you know, disfavored by homeowners, the number of cooperatively owned non-profit housing units have declined. That's why even in a place like Amsterdam, for example, you see since the 2000s, the cost of living fucking skyrocket and become a genuine problem. I've seen quite a few

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