The argument for more density is exactly what causes prices to rise. We have over 22,000 empty condos in Van that are bought up in Shanghai through a website that Chinese use like a poker game called Juwai.com and are not listed in Canada first, it's a world-wide scam. This doesn't include  the airBnB scams.

The mansions in Van, but bought in China and flipped numerous times through "investor immigrant programs", use a wife is *bought through a contract in order to appear with PR status in Canada while the financier (or contract husband) is in China "working".. or the other, a "foreign student" under the same premises of a *contract and PR status or  student/work visa.

The issue is to ban the foreign ownership, do NOT deregulate farm lands, China is buying them here too and building mansions as investor hotels where "visitors" come to Canada with cash through airports to gamble on Canada's housing market & find a "contract" they can use for the title, while they are the beneficiary.