Capitalist Cleansing

We’ve nicknamed new houses urinals, indulge realtors who place pumpkins on the front porches of uninhabited homes for Halloween (and who cry because a tree will lower a property value that's doubled before anyone can grow a hipster beard), and shadow flip while Gordon Gecko roams the streets as if it's the 1980's. Welcome to the Beta city that is Vancouver and how its neighbourhoods are undergoing capitalist cleansing.

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