The City of Vancouver gets into the rental game
The city of Vancouver has been a pioneer in novel housing initiatives for a couple of decades, as it grappled with a housing crunch that hit in B.C. far ahead of the rest of the country.
It legalized basement suites outright in 2002, laneway homes in 2009 and fourplexes on all single-detached-house lots in 2023, as well as incentivizing developers to build rentals starting in 2008 and bringing in an empty-homes tax in 2017.
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