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The answer, of course, is that the "foreign buyer" thing was a scapegoat and was never the real problem (or at least, far from the most important one).
The real problem is ZONING.
When it's LITERALLY ILLEGAL to build (a) enough housing where people want it (because neighborhoods close to city centers are zoned single-family only) and (b) inexpensive housing (because of large lot sizes and minimum parking requirements inflating mandatory costs), of course homes aren't going to be affordable!
By exclussively building single family homes, for the most part you are also forcing someone to require a car. Sure its possible to live in some areas car free, and it is possible to live in suburbia car free, but for the vast majority of Canadian suburbs living car free makes your life significantly harder.
We really need to rethink how we build and zone our cities, spend more space on people and less space on cars. Abolish parking minimums and let the business owner decide their parking requirements. Limit sprawling subdivisions and strip malls and enforce higher densities.
Build fifteen minute cities, in short. I live in one, for all practical purposes, and it's GRAND!
That term has been ruined by conspiracy theorists who can't fathom a walkable city without cameras tracking your every movment, government forcing you to never leave your neighbourhood and other ridiculous exaggerations of what is just an urban planning concept.
"Congestion pricing? You mean a freedom tax." "They want you to get rid of your car so they can control you" "You can't visit anyone out of your 15 minute district"
Oh well. I can't cater to the stupid and the insane. I'll live where I don't need a car to get basic amenities of life and use the money I save to live grandly. They can spend the money, time, and health on living with unnecessary vehicles until they die out.