Vancouver's multimillion-dollar homes are not only out of reach for most Vancouverites, they are rapidly becoming a self-contained ghost town, because nothing speaks to the Canadian city's affordability crisis more than its empty houses acquired by "hot money" laundering Chinese: as of the end of 2016, the number of Vacant or temporarily occupied houses more than doubled since 2001 to a whopping 66,719.

On July 11th, President Temer approved Law 13,465/2017 which mainly deals with federal land regularization for rural, urban and Amazonian lands. The new law is based on what was previously a provisional measure, MP 759.