I see, so much of the west side of Vancouver is "difficult to scout because it's hard to reach the people who own the houses because they don't live in the houses most of the time. A huge number of the houses are sitting empty and you know they are sitting empty."

It is curious.

What the film industry recognized in a couple of afternoons of scouting for film locations...

... is what the government and media failed to recognize for years and years and years, as they were far too busy accusing people of bing racists for claiming to recognize the exact same phenomenon. 

Welcome to politically correct Canada where, for government and the media, ideology trumps reality.