Without affordable housing, Vancouver risks becoming an economic ghost town
One of the main reasons of the housing crisis in the Bay Area is Prop 13 (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_13_(1978)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_13_(197...</a>) Prop 13 basically keeps the property taxes constant (or 1% increase) as the value of your house increases (doubles or triples). Your tax gets re-calculated only if you sell your house and the new owner starts paying potentially multiples of what the previous owner has been paying in taxes. This works great for older people who own property they can basically stay at their home forever, but it creates an unfair situation for new comers in the area and the newer generations.<p>How are property taxes calculated in other places in the world? Vancouver? London? Tokyo?<p>This is such a hard problem to solve, no one wants to force elderly people to move because of a bull real estate market, but you also need young hard working people in your city for economic growth. My solution would be to jack up the real estate inheritance tax and allocate that money for public transportation and affordable housing.