Arrogance and ignorance are a dangerous mixture. WIll we see more of this from David Eby and his government?

I appreciate your support for First Nations!

Of course, all of them were voted out between 2015-2018, (= incumbents across all political ideologies tend to lose when inflation rises).

However, it would be good if the discourse then had and the discourse now recognized the various factors responsible for the current problems.

It can be, but in our history:

1. Fed holds the biggest levers to influence demand

2. Prov holds the biggest levers to influence supply

3. Municipalities at the mercy of the first two.

Bingo.

Political leaders operate within a political economy and the Overton Window. Advocates often fail to understand this and limit their accountability to just political leaders, while also failing to hold voters accountable for what is permissible under those leaders.

I also can't imagine the Harper government wouldn't have made similar cuts during their years in power, since they practiced austerity across the board in other key social spending.

If the Feds maintained its level of federal funding for non-profit & coop housing, relative to inflationary increases, wouldn't the confluence of housing demands still have created an affordability crisis, albeit at a potentially lower intensity for lower-income households?

It's easy to review sub-regional government decisions from nearly a decade ago through an ahistorical lens, but Vancouver did not have the YIMBY movement it has today to oppose the alliance of property owners and renters opposing new housing.

As we're finally witnessing in 2025, regional governments at the state level in the US or the Provincial level in Canada are taking region-wide action on housing supply because micro-regional changes do not significantly impact housing markets.