Douglas Todd: The country’s housing emergency is so powerful, distorted and puzzling that many are prone to say, “You couldn’t make this up.” But some B.C. writers are doing just that, through intrepid works of fiction.
An untold number of works have been written about Canada’s housing crisis, especially regarding the Vancouver, Victoria and Toronto regions.
A flood of media articles, industry reports, scholarly analyses and books continue to dig into the impact on housing of foreign capital, construction costs, zoning bylaws, the profit motive, government policy and more.
Now we’re seeing a new kind of exploration of the problem — in fiction.
