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Originally Posted by whatnext
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Which is why experienced developers are buying those foreclosed sites previously owned by the over-extended smaller developers, and instead building market rental apartment buildings. GWL, for example, just bought two adjacent sites on Robson Street, one in foreclosure, and are planning two rental towers.
The City of Vancouver rezoning policy around stations also encourages rental projects, and in the year since the Broadway Plan was approved, there have been 10,000 apartments submitted for development, over 9,500 of them rentals, with 20% required to rent at below-market rents. There's also a policy to require at least 25% to be 2-bed, and 10% 3-bed, so that's also a lot of family sized units. Other municipalities (except Burnaby) have adopted similar changes around stations and bus exchanges, as provincial legislation requires.