I really appreciate this one. Mayor Hurley made a similar comment to me last year and I wanted to follow up with a detailed email but never got around to it.
Part of the difficulty was that he seemed to be demanding an amount of evidence that may not even exist. Basically he was looking for a deeply unaffordable city that managed to build its way into being affordable. He brought up Seattle and said something to the effect of "so their rent went down 3%... so what? That's not a major difference". I tried to explain that a 3% rent decline versus Burnaby's 30% rent increase is incredibly significant, but it didn't seem to sink in.
I really appreciate this one. Mayor Hurley made a similar comment to me last year and I wanted to follow up with a detailed email but never got around to it.
Part of the difficulty was that he seemed to be demanding an amount of evidence that may not even exist. Basically he was looking for a deeply unaffordable city that managed to build its way into being affordable. He brought up Seattle and said something to the effect of "so their rent went down 3%... so what? That's not a major difference". I tried to explain that a 3% rent decline versus Burnaby's 30% rent increase is incredibly significant, but it didn't seem to sink in.