He served jail time in Mississippi for defying racial segregation laws. He was there at the founding of the NDP. And he once believed that private property was a crime.
But Michael Audain has come a long way since then, becoming one of the most successful players in British Columbia’s torrid housing sector. And he’s made a massive fortune — his foundation recently gave $100 million to the Vancouver Art Gallery — in a market he used to denounce. The founder of Polygon Homes joins Anthony Furey to discuss his eventful life, his changed beliefs and his new memoir, “One Man In His Time.