To the editor:
Re: "Blaming Chinese for high house prices racist," April 9.
It would really be appreciated if Vancouver media did some fact checking before quoting people in the real estate industry. Allen Garr quotes Eugen Klein as saying "in the past year, single detached homes have gone up 30 per cent... in Maple Ridge." A number like that should surely make a journalist curious. Thirty per cent? Really?
The fact is that neither Landcor data, nor the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver numbers reflect anything like that in reality. There has been no 30 per cent rise in Maple Ridge prices. To distort the truth, and to lead uninformed British Columbians to incorrect decisions based upon incorrect information, is not what journalists should aspire to. I'm hopeful for the day when I can read an article in B.C. on real estate without having to cringe at all the inaccurate information.
Justin Bennett Langley, B.C.
