Critics challenge Vancouver's plans to protect existing rental stock

The City of Vancouver is holding public hearings next week on proposals aimed at tightening protection for one of the cheapest housing options left: old rental stock.
But the jury is out on what these will actually accomplish.
The affordable rental units are usually found in low-rise, wood-frame buildings, built between the 1950s and 1970s — the antithesis to all the city’s shiny, new, skyscraping condos with granite countertops.
The city wants to make it more difficult to tear down