‘Call it what it is’ — Most Vancouver ‘social housing’ geared to $50,000+ incomes

Nathalie Baker impugns Vancouver’s plans for so-called “social housing” to address housing and homelessness crisis.

“They should just call it what it is,” said Nathalie Baker, a lawyer with Vancouver firm Eyford Partners LLP who specializes in municipal law. “If you’re not being up-front and forthright about what we’re dealing with, how do we know we’re actually solving a problem and not making it worse?”

“It’s kind of crazy to think that’s where we’re at, if a household earning $100,000 lives in social housing,” Baker said.

Garrison, the city’s housing policy director, didn’t disagree on either point.