Metro Vancouver 'affordable' rental housing starts must increase 2,500%

 https://www.nsnews.com/real-estate/metro-vancouver-affordable-rental-housing-starts-must-increase-2500-says-report-10572142

There were several decades of keeping towers short & not encouraging more low-rise apartment buildings to be built as well. 

https://goodmanreport.com/market-insights/rental-housing-where-seattle-thrives-vancouver-stumbles/

https://www.sightline.org/2017/08/14/why-seattle-builds-apartments-but-vancouver-bc-builds-condos/

https://www.postalley.org/2024/02/05/tale-of-two-cities-why-vancouver-and-seattle-downtowns-look-so-different/