Editor:
Trickle-down housing, whereby a buyer of a $700,000 house will purportedly eventually free up a low-cost rental, is as much of a fantasy as trickle-down economics. The results are the same: the rich get richer, and everyone else gets poorer. We need to think of all the people we encounter daily in our local stores, restaurants, health clinics, dental offices, and recreation centres, and insist that government ensure that the housing that is built is affordable for them, rather than priced for rich investors.
Kathleen Vance, Gibsons
