Immigration is not to blame for housing shortages and medical care challenges. The problem is the lack of long-term planning, says Shelly D’Mello, CEO of the Inter-Cultural Association (ICA) of Greater Victoria.
D’Mello said the risk of assigning blame to immigrants in the current affordability crisis is that we will miss the real problems.
The ICA points to the dismantling of national housing policies in the 1980s and 1990s, which financed public and affordable housing projects.
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