Vancouver

You don’t own the land

Relevance?

you have no control over

You don't have full control, but you have some part in the condo administration. Like some homes are also subject to HOAs.

I owned a house for 20 years and never had these kinds of costs

Cool story bro, but I also know of dozens of anecdotes showing the opposite

density, good for the rich, shitty for everyone else.

Sure, the system that is friendliest to the poor is having infinitely sprawling cities with insanely high infrastructure costs and the lowest economic efficiency possible 👍 the real mystery is why rich people usually the ones fighting in favor of single family zoning 🤔