Soaring Vancouver home prices spur anger towards foreign buyers

Vancouver

AFTER years of watching Vancouver housing prices climb, driven in part by Chinese investment, Eveline Xia came to a painful realisation: Despite having a Master's degree and solid career prospects, she might never be able to afford a home in the city where she grew up.

That didn't seem right, and so the 29-year-old hand lettered a sign listing her credentials, snapped a selfie, and posted it to Twitter under the hashtag #DontHave1million.

The tweet went viral, and hundreds of other young Vancouver residents soon began expressing their own frustrations in tweets about the red-hot housing market - and the feveri…