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housing project, near Queen Elizabeth
Park, has seen its residents cleared out
to make way for 1,400 units of market
housing. And the last embers of a battle
are burning out at Marine Gardens—a
1970s ode to affordable public housing
at Marine Drive and Cambie—where
a pair of condo towers is replacing 70
townhome units. The impetus for it all:
what Metro Vancouver estimates to be
a one-million-person inf lux into the
region by 2041.
A large part of the city's justifica-
tion for density rests with the belief
that more supply will translate into
greater affordability. Yet despite a
frenzied few years of construction in
Vancouver, condo prices in the region
increased 14 per cent more in 2015 than
in the previous year, bringing the aver-
age condo price to $521,666. Canada
Mortgage and Housing Corporation
expects 20,000 new housing starts
each year for the next two years but
little in the way of market cooling for
Vancouver. Even if one only looks at the
people moving here, Vancouver's share
of that one-million figure is a far hum-
bler 150,000—putting into question the
need for large-scale densification.
Indeed, a few weeks before he
left his post last November, former
Vancouver city planning director
Brian Jackson conceded growth is
really not that big a deal. "The growth
rate is far less now than it was in the
1990s," he said in an interview with
BCBusiness. "We're growing at about
four per cent a year, but back in the
'90s, it was nine per cent. When
you look at the population increase
between 1981 and 2011, it's far higher
in terms of pure numbers." In
Jackson's view, about a third of the
150,000 will be living in infill housing
(laneway houses, basement suites), a
third will be living in midrises (such as
those being built along Cambie Street),
and the remainder will live in high-
rises (such as those that will spring
up in the Concord Pacific lands of
Northeast False Creek). Tens of thou-
sands more people can be accommo-
dated in other large projects, such as
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