All sorts of housing units are counting toward the NDP's plan
Reading the B.C. government’s new affordable housing plan Monday brought to mind that old Mark Twain line: There are lies, damned lies and then there are statistics.
If you can do both, you’ll have reached the level of cognitive dissonance needed to read the NDP’s housing progress report without pulling your hair out. There’s a legitimate debate to be had about whether counting speculation tax properties, federal subsidies, age-specific rental restrictions and homeless spaces was what the NDP promised in the 2017 election when it said it would “build directly, and through partnerships, 114,000 rental, social and co-op homes over 10 years."
And they wanted people to believe those new homes would be available for middle-income, middle-class, cash-strapped, hard-working, urban voters who are priced out of condos and homes in Metro Vancouver and Greater Victoria. The overall goal was to build more, and bring prices down.
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