Are foreign buyers driving up housing prices?

UBC urban geographer David Ley was on CBC National Sunday night in a segment about foreign ownership in Metro Vancouver’s housing market.

“Local incomes absolutely cannot support this kind of housing market,” Ley told CBC News. “People actually come on shopping holidays during the Chinese New Year for example,” Ley added. “They come to Vancouver and buy a house.”

The story goes on to examine the lack of Vancouver city data on this issue.