Commentary: NDR 2026 – why a higher BTO income ceiling isn’t just a housing policy adjustment

While its core objective is to ensure affordable housing, public housing also fulfils another equally important policy objective of encouraging family formation, says Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy’s Woo Jun Jie.

Almost 50,000 new students have been placed in higher education, creating fresh housing pressures as demand for rooms rises, supply shrinks and rents stay high.

With the start of the school year just weeks away, many Vancouver families are feeling the strain of rising costs.