Pavlov's theory of housing solutions for metro Vancouver also includes tearing down our "hundreds of crumbling and wasteful buildings".  These buildings provide a base of affordable rental stock in metro Vancouver. Without planned government incentives and intervention (not to mention subsidies) how does the writer propose that rental stock gets built, when more money is to be made on condos?

Yes, opening up rapid transit to the the outer suburbs and Fraser Valley would also make housing there a more viable option. But as it stands now, housing in those areas is also the last bastion of affordability for working families. 

It is estimated that the CoV alone has over 10,000 sold and empty housing units. Double - triple? that when you include other metro Vancouver cities (Melbourne has over 60,000).  We need to address that first  and determine who it is we are densifying our neighbourhoods for.

The "solution" is not to blindly build.  Unless you are in the real estate industry.