It was a scene at Vancouver City Hall as age-old as local government itself: politicians accusing other politicians of playing politics.

“I’m really disappointed,” said Mayor Ken Sim after four opposition councillors blocked his ABC Party’s plan to create a private housing corporation that would develop and manage more than 4,000 units of rental housing at six sites across the city, with potentially others to follow.

“Unfortunately, politics came into play today.”

Vancouver council does not approve arm's-length, revenue-generating housing corporation

It was the first major loss for a Sim initiative since council kept a ban on natural gas heating in new homes.

His response was repeated multiple times: that the concept, which staff had worked on for more than a year, would have gone

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