low incomes would prefer my place to this. Hipsters would take 'em though. So they evicted a bunch of low income tenants to make way for hipster pads. Vancouver disgusts me. I can't believe the overpriced crap on Craigslist these days, it seems worse than ever. Finding a decent affordable rental wasn't too bad until this past summer but now the pickins are slim. On a related topic, we went to a co-op orientation recently. They want $1290 for a ground floor, tiny, 2 bed with parking & hydro included. Rent increase of 6% comping in June. The apartment was very shabby and they looked at me like I was crazy when I asked about doing a little updating on my dime. Can't have any units nicer than any others apparently so chipped formica counters for everyone! Even co-ops can't be considered a reasonable option anymore. Likely they are falling behind on their replacement reserve. Coops need decent capital plans or end up going to pot. They have to plan because the buck stops with them, not some mythical perpetual greater fool farm team bailing out bad investments. You better relay that to the Glorious Housing Task Force, which is slated to recommend cooperatives to help solve Vancouver's "affordability crisis". Something about the free market distorting the ability of workers to live close to their designated assignments. @keeper of the derp -- you wrote "hello, professor -- how does something 'increasingly become'? either it is or it isn't. do or