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EllieBC

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4. The foreign buyers tax was supposed to help.

Reply to inanna (Original post)

Sat Oct 7, 2017, 03:10 PM

Oct 2017

To stop the upward spiral of home prices. The greens were correct though. It should be higher and provincial wide.

Short of a housing collapse (which neither the federal nor provincial government will allow to happen) housing costs will never be reasonable in the lower mainland.

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The ladies who live in a van: homeless seniors struggle to make ends meet [View all] inanna Oct 2017 OP

this is who we are jodymarie aimee Oct 2017 #1

I think the area that leases to Whole Foods (Park Royal) is First Nations-owned pandr32 Oct 2017 #2

The Squamish Nation does own it. EllieBC Oct 2017 #3

The foreign buyers tax was supposed to help. EllieBC Oct 2017 #4

Whole Foods is the most expensive grocery left-of-center2012 Oct 2017 #5

It's all that's around Park Royal. EllieBC Oct 2017 #6