That's a fair point: Vancouver suffers from many of the same problems as other west coast cities around not enough housing being built.
I was only considering my lifestyle in Toronto, where we have similar problems but not to the same scale. Toronto is less afraid to build up! Last I heard there were something like 50+ buildings over 50 stories under construction in the city.
When I last visited Toronto (which was some time ago -- 2012), I was struck by not just how much the city was building up, but by how far out from the city center was building towers. Most of the towers were along the lake, and near a highway, but I didn't see much in terms of rail-based public transit or nearby office towers (basically everything being advertised was residential units), so I have two questions:
- How full are those buildings?
- Are there significant traffic issues from induced commutes?
I was only considering my lifestyle in Toronto, where we have similar problems but not to the same scale. Toronto is less afraid to build up! Last I heard there were something like 50+ buildings over 50 stories under construction in the city.