Don Cayo: If cities and the province backed off their huge levies, housing costs would ease

Governments could, as noted in a Vancity analysis reported on the front page of Thursday’s paper, do much more to help young Vancouverites trapped in small condos because they can’t afford family-sized homes. But powers that be could also ease the Metro region’s sky-high housing costs by doing less of the thing governments do best — that is, piling on the taxes, fees and levies.