Drawing on a wealth of new information about the housing situation of immigrants, we examine four themes: the history of immigration in the Vancouver metropolitan area and recent trends in the Vancouver housing market; the housing conditions of immigrants currently living in the metropolitan area, focusing on the intersections between immi- gration, income, and ethno-cultural origin in the housing [...] Of the major metropolitan areas, Vancouver received the smallest ratio of refugees, the group that typically faces the greatest challenges in the settlement and integration process. [...] The report begins with a review of the history of immigration in the Vancouver metropolitan area and recent trends in the Vancouver housing market. [...] As elsewhere in Canada, few immigrants arrived in the long, uncertain period between the onset of the First World War and the end of the Second. [...] The Westside of the City of Vancouver and the suburban municipalities have seen the most change, however.