Is Singapore’s housing model a realistic solution for Canada’s affordability woes?

A Harbour Air seaplane takes off past office and condo towers as a boat refuels at a floating Chevron station on the water, in Vancouver, on July 25. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Urban planner Louisa-May Khoo says she got a sense of deja vu when British Columbia Premier David Eby announced the BC Builds housing program earlier this year.

Khoo, a University of British Columbia public scholar, was a veteran of Singapore’s planning and development sector starting in 1996 before arriving in Vancouver in 2018.