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Re:Canada to ban foreigners from buying homes by pedalpete on Thursday April 07, 2022 @07:23PM (#30951537)
Is empty housing a myth? https://openhousing.ca/2020/12/30/vancouver-empty-homes-cros...

I used to live in Yaletown (Vancouver) and the building I lived in was this very tall, maybe 35 story two tower block which only had two elevators. It took me about 6 months to realize that I never saw anybody else in the building. There were only 3 occupied apartments on my floor (I think there were 8 units per floor). I was told the building was designed to be a "piggy bank in the sky" and that low occupancy was in the design.

This is just an anecdote, but I was under the impression low occupancy is an issue in Vancouver so much so that they tried to pass laws regarding empty homes.

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