The British Columbia government’s push to build more homes has created “chaos” within communities, and a collection of groups is calling for the creation of a roundtable of experts to lead housing policy in the province.

The groups, which includes the BC Real Estate Association, the Aboriginal Housing Management Association, Canadian Mortgage Brokers and local politicians and developers, say the roundtable is needed to help create effective housing policy.

Trevor Hargreaves, in policy research and advocacy at the real estate association, says Premier David Eby’s government “opened the floodgates with an avalanche of new legislation” to build more housing, but it has also created “a lot of chaos.”

B.C’s legislation has set targets for numerous communities to build more homes and requires

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