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bysinij ( 911942 ) writes:
With a rare exceptions of New York and Vancouver, which are constrained by water, shortages of housing are shortages of permits to build houses. There is plenty of land to build houses on and we can build more houses quickly and efficiently with modern construction methods and we can also build more infrastructure to support them. Unfortunately, urban planning was captured through long march through institutions by ideologues that believe raising families, community-based neighborhoods, and even ownership o
byFeelGood314 ( 2516288 ) writes:
It was voters. Voter greed. The majority of voters live in owner occupied dwellings. In Canada that number is 67%. Homes shouldn't be a good investment. They should depreciate with time the way cars do. However through greed and ignorance, home owners used their majority to enact laws and regulations that would restrict the building of competing housing. Home owners feel entitled to house prices going up significantly faster than inflation. In Canada 44% of people plan on using the profit of their h
bysinij ( 911942 ) writes:
Canada has no shortage of land. Can you please explain how homeowners could conspire to prevent more housing getting built outside the existing urban boundary? They can't. Only urban planners, that have authority to not issue building permits, could do that. It is really bureaucracy that does that.
byAnonymous Coward writes:
Nobody wants to live outside the existing urban boundary, aka in the fucking middle of nowhere.
byAnonymous Coward writes:
90s called, they want you back under a rock. In 2026 young parents would commute for 2 hours to get an affordable detached house to raise kids in. Only they are not allowed, because building permits are just not issued in many places. They could only get into a coffin condos, and you can't raise a family in that.
bydskoll ( 99328 ) writes:
Our zoning laws prevent something called the "missing middle", which is the middle ground between highrise forests and sprawling single-family homes. The old parts of Canadian cities, like Old Toronto, Ottawa South, and so on have a lot of houses that are pretty small by McMansion standards, but still perfectly suitable for raising a family. They are also fantastic neighborhoods because they gelled before stupid restrictive zoning became a thing, and so they were grandfathered. It's not for nothing that
bysinij ( 911942 ) writes:
I don't have to look it up to know that what you call improving is intensification, or tearing down single lot detached homes that families would want to live in and replacing it is prefabricated Soviet-style rental apartments.
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bydskoll ( 99328 ) writes:
You didn't have to look it up because it's not true and basically you're full of shit.
All this zoning change means is that if developers want to, they can build semidetached houses instead of single-family homes. Or a 4-plex. Or whatever they think will sell. There's nothing mandating "rentals" or any particular style of building.
byserviscope_minor ( 664417 ) writes:
Aren't you right wing loonies usually in favour of freedoms and free markets? Funny to see you wanting big daddy government to enforce your desires about housing on everyone else!
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