$1-Million Question: Do the Province's new housing rules make North Shore more affordable?

$1-Million Question: Do the Province's new housing rules make North Shore more affordable?

British Columbia is selling its Small-Scale Multi-Unit Housing legislation as the cure for the affordability crisis. But as a contractor doing the actual work, well, the math tells a different story. Run the numbers on a standard North Vancouver infill project, and the logic starts to unravel fast. This isn’t a straightforward path to affordable housing. It’s a complex, expensive building model being imposed on aging neighbourhood infrastructure…