This article falls squarely in the category of "tip-toeing around the elephant in the room".

The article makes a euphemistic, barely-detectable reference to Vancouver as one of a handful of "gateway cities".

Hello?

Why such hesitation to spell it out more clearly, to simply call a spade a spade?

Look, Vancouver is unaffordable because overseas money is flooding in year after year, skyrocketing house prices to dozens of times the average annual local income, gobbling up housing supply away from people with local jobs, making many of their lives a financial impossibility, thus they move hundreds or thousands of miles away (stories like the opening of the article), displaced by overseas money in a top-bidder-from-overseas mechanism that governments in Canada are fine with and are doing nothing effective to stop.

Spell it out, already! They are so tiresome to read, your worn-out euphemisms and your unmentioned elephants...