Douglas Todd: The first journalist to really capture Vancouver’s housing crisis

Jim Sutherland nailed the key causes of Metro Vancouver’s housing crunch almost a decade ago. But few noticed. And many denied it.
As a result, the city descended into an ugly affordability crisis, which probably could have been avoided. It’s only in the past couple of years that politicians have mounted a serious response to the tremendous power foreign capital has had in shaping B.C.’s housing market. But Sutherland’s article had explained much of it nine, long, painful