The most ironic thing about "affordable" housing is that only working taxpayers pay for it - the foreign nationals living in mansions and collecting social benefits are not paying a dime (or maybe a dime if the municipality steps in). So not only are the middle class forced out of housing in their own country and community, they have to pay higher costs to commute and live in higher pollution further down the valley, and they get to pay for the socio economic impact of the foreign nationals through such schemes as affordable housing which they will never have and are not eligible for. Why people are not demonstrating every day boggles the mind: this has been a full scale economic war on Canadians with the tacit approval of our governments. Yes, the tax should be much much higher for all the lower mainland and Vancouver Island.