CTV looked at how much rising real estate prices added to the personal wealth of the BC Cabinet – $2.3 million this year alone.
Surging real estate values added $2.3 million to B.C. cabinet ministers’ personal wealth this year alone, as the government says coming measures to ease housing affordability won’t include any that lower prices.
One minister saw her four properties jump $765,000, more than five times a minister’s salary. Another saw gains on a portfolio of eight homes. On average, ministers made $103,000 – more than an MLA’s salary, according to a review of public records by CTV News.
It’s natural for those ministers to welcome their own wealth boost, but they have to realize how their eye-popping gains translate into tremendous hardship for young people trying to get into the notorious Vancouver property market, said UBC professor Paul Kershaw.
Read the full article here.
As YVR points out, maybe it’s not just wealthy foreigners who are to blame for rising prices:
Funny thing is HAM is supposed to be buying all the property. Susan Anton owns 4 houses in Vancouver and DeJong owns 8 properties in Abbotsford.
Could that be the problem? Locals owning multiple properties? That is 12 properties between 2 people. Both are white and locals.
