text: How do you cite trends in the attached real estate market in the Lower Mainland and NOT reference the grotesque market interference that is the BC Home Owner Mortgage and Equity Partnership program.
  
  https://www.bchousing.org/housing-assistance/bc-home-partnership
  
  Even the CMHC vilified this monstrous market interference:
  https://thetyee.ca/News/2017/05/18/BC-Liberals-Housing-Plan-Worsens-Crisis/
  
  Anyone who thinks high prices here are the result of a free market and not the product of several levels of market interference needs to give their head a hard shake. If the massive special tax treatments and debt-accumulating "helpers" like the HOME program were reeled in so that real estate wasn't such an attractive investment compared to others, the market would return to sanity. But it's too much to expect the government to stop picking winners in this market because there are too many jobs and too many nest eggs. So we'll just keep building ourselves for a bigger fault later on. Great.