Here's an interesting article from Business In Vancouver on the empty homes tax that Vancouver rolled out - Empty homes are fraction of City of Vancouver estimate: report
This is a clear case of the same government moving the goal post/changing the definition on the same subject (in this case what an 'empty home' is) for one reason or another. The difference is crazy if you consider that the first estimate was off by 90% of the final numbers.The City of Vancouver has found 2,538 vacant homes in its first empty-homes tax annual report – about one-tenth of the homes the city said were empty when it first promoted the tax, which has cost $10 million to implement.