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Originally Posted by Migrant_Coconut
While it helps, an extra ten floors in a single tower is a drop in the bucket - especially when the suburban tower craze only applies to the town centre malls & warehouses (and not the NIMBYs beyond them), so we're going to see Burquitlam, Metrotown et al dry up sooner rather than later. 28 floors is just as good as 82, so long as we approve a lot of them, and much faster than we're approving them right now.
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It all makes a difference. Imagine for a second that every 10-19 storey building had an extra 5 stories, every 20-39 storey building had an extra 10 and every 40+ storey building had an extra 20 stories. That would have a massive impact on supply and thus the affordability of homes.