Douglas Todd: Condos changed Metro Vancouver forever, for better and worse

It was the year the Beatles released Hey Jude, Pierre Trudeau was elected prime minister, and Rev. Martin Luther King was assassinated.
It was 1968 — the year that Metro Vancouver got its first condominium complex.
A great deal has changed in the ensuing 50 years. Now roughly one out of three residents of the region live in a condominium. Metro Vancouver has about 600,000 condo units, with the city of Vancouver having 130,000 of those. The province in total has about 900,000 units, accordi