Douglas Todd: Valiant Metro churches try to plug housing gap

Metro Vancouver’s churches have been leading spirited campaigns to supply more housing for the city’s 2.4 million residents and new arrivals.
But how big a dent will re-developing scores of places of worship into rental, market and social housing make in a metropolis that ranks as one of the most unaffordable in the world, where there is no meaningful connection between local wages and housing prices?
“Hopefully, the redevelopment (of places of worship) is one of the steps of c