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It's 'naive' to blast the big institutions that provide rental housing, say developers

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Vancouver East NDP MP Jenny Kwan lambasted powerful “profiteers” that “financialize” rental housing.

Liberals, and the Conservatives before them, have long encouraged the creation of real estate investment trusts, commonly known as REITs.

But readers likely won’t be surprised to hear that the property development industry, and many politicians, don't have trouble with REIT.

The eventual owners and operators of most of the hundreds of new rental towers being proposed for Metro Vancouver — including within the drastically upzoned Broadway corridor and around SkyTrain stations — will indeed be REIT firms.

B.C. government restricts when and how much tenants can be charged in rental apartment blocks.

Developers calculate how much interest they can afford to pay on land, construction, taxes and fees.

The total cost for the typical 20 -storey rental tower projects being proposed these days is about $125 million , says Moore.

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