Real estate mania is at an all time high in this country. And in no place is this more true than in Vancouver. But nobody can even agree on what went wrong. Have snooty property owners, overreaching bureaucrats, and gutless politicians allowed the housing supply to dwindle to nothing? Or has a network of transnational criminals turned Vancouver into a narco-capital built on dirty money? Featured in this episode: Frances Bula, Sam Cooper, Lindsey Murphy, Jesse Donaldson To learn more:“Vancouver's affordable housing announcements remain unfulfilled years later” by Frances Bula in The Globe and MailWilful Blindness: How a Network of Narcos, Tycoons and CCP Agents Infiltrated the West by Sam Cooper“Inside Vancouver City Hall's Housing Wars” by Doug Ward in The Tyee Additional music from Audio NetworkThis episode is sponsored by Dispatch Coffee and Value(s) by Mark CarneySupport COMMONS: http://commonspodcast.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.