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Cities promise housing β and then make new rules that prevent it
(www.theglobeandmail.com)
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It is because of parking. Every additional unit will require parking spaces, those units will have guests who must likely will park on the street and that's what gets the neighbourhood pitchforks out. They will scream how there will simultaneously be too much congestion and no parking spaces but also that people will speed down the street and make the neighbourhood unsafe. Parking and building height (neighbourhood character) are the two bullets nimbys use to kill a lot of housing projects.
BC will be introducing legislation in the fall that permits up to 4 units per parcel on all parcels. I'm interested to see how its handled by zoning and what things will look like in a few years. Hopefully this gets cities to start investing in transit as the higher densities might be able to support it.
With density, which enables adequate public transit, we need much less parking. Get rid of the parking requirement, and a lot of that problem goes away. I'd love to be able to buy a place without a useless-ass patch of concrete attached to it that'll cost me an extra 20k for no damn reason.