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VANCOUVER — The Canadian and British Columbia governments are complicit in fuelling Vancouver’s housing crisis as foreign Chinese buyers continue to shut local residents out of the market, a new study says.

Josh Gordon is the study’s author and an assistant professor in the School of Public Policy at Simon Fraser University. He said people whose dreams of owning a home are being crushed because they can’t compete with foreign investors no longer accept “distraction” excuses such as low interest rates for the state of the super-heated market.

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“People recognize what’s going on, and they’re willing to call a spade a spade,” he said, stressing that such views are based on reality, not racism.

His report compiles a number of other studies, including data on home-buying trends, population density, the cancelled immigrant investor program, and American research on the same issue.

Gordon said his report blames Vancouver’s housing crisis on foreign buyers, particularly from China, because “this is where the evidence points, not because of some anti-Chinese animus.”