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    June 9, 2021
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    COMMONS
    REAL ESTATE #4 – City of Glass
    Real estate mania is at an all time high in this country. And in no place is this more true than in Vancouver.
    Arshy Mann
    Host & Producer
    Jordan Cornish
    Producer
    Damilola Onime
    Producer, Wag the Doug
    Kevin Donovan

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    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 Mail

    Wilful 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 Network

    This episode is sponsored by Dispatch Coffee and Value(s) by Mark Carney

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