Es gibt eine Möglichkeit, das Wohnungsangebot zu erhöhen. Hat Gregor Robertson den Willen?
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/there-is-a-way-to-increase-housing-supply-does-gregor-robertson-have-the-will/article_be7e1ebd-2eca-4b05-82f7-961c8fc8f03c.html
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While Mike Moffat has done incalculable harm to young and new Canadians through his narrow and biased solutions to housing affordability, it’s at least nice to see him calling out the housing minister directly. He can still fuck off though.
Anyone who is still speaking of this issue in singular is just preaching all the same single-minded approaches that have failed us before .
This is a municipal, provincal, and federal problem that will require cooperation and multi-pronged approaches to take place simultaneously.
„The only path to increasing the housing supply and lowering prices is to reduce costs associated with construction, including the cost of land.“
Land prices can come down if governments stop artificially restricting its supply.
Metro Vancouver has artificially restricted the the supply of land in the form of „agricultural reserve land“
Anyone who goes for a drive around Metro Vancouver will see great swaths of „farm“ land that grows nothing more than grass and berries for 3 months of the year.
Farm land is 22% of Metro Vancouver’s area. It’s a massive sum. The housing crisis would have never manifested in this region if that land was unlocked and taxed for development 15 years ago.
Toronto has the same problem with the „green belt“.
Canada is 10 million SqKm, we have more land than we know what to do with. The „environment“ is no excuse to block housing for Canadians.
I don’t understand, there is plenty of housing! Why is there a need to increase supply, it’s not a demand and supply issue, it’s a Government spending like drunken sailors issue. I shouldn’t say that, even sailors are more responsible with their money.