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lecoqsportif said:
This aligns with the “abundance” mantra that some people are pushing as a new approach for the left. The issue will be to defuse environmental concerns, debt concern trolls and moaning about inequality (but lumber barons will get rich!)

Need to focus, and some people on the left need to keep quiet for a little while.
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Yep. We've got some shit to fix, decades of minimal investment into growing society equitably is fucking up our politics and tilting a generation of young people towards weirdo populism. If they can't be shown that government can fix problems, they're just going to do away with government whenever some snake oil salesman tells them he can fix their problems if he's just given the powers to.

We need something of an administrative manhattan project to hard reset our regulatory regime. We can't say fuck the environment, but we also have to recognize that people consume stuff to survive and having a dense and expensive regulatory regime in between people and the basic shit they need for a comfortable life just isn't something we can afford anymore.
 
blkngldbabe said:
Plus the infrastructure to handle more population.
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Frankly we need better infrastructure to the population we had.

And not just the usual stuff (like mass transit)… also schools, museums, athletic facilities and other cultural institutions.

I listen to a podcast from Montreal re: hockey. He was lamenting the lack of accessible ice for his minor league team. In freakin’ Montreal. Come on!
 
The thing about building new homes is: where?

Where do people want to live? Major Cities. Can new homes be built in major cities?

What would the value of building these homes in areas where people want to live do to the current value of already built homes? What would it do to those mortgages?

There are numerous homes in small rural areas, but do people want to live there?

Take Halliburton, for example. They would kill for prime-aged professionals to move up there (esp Doctors), but those professionals want to live in Toronto.

What the Canadian Government needs to do is two-fold:

  1. Build more mixed-use Residential Buildings/Towers with bigger units (3 bedrooms, anyone?)
  2. Incentives turning small rural areas into mid-size Towns or Cities.

I know small town folk will not like that, and it will turn into a big backlash (ie MAGA). But for the health of the nation moving forward 100 years, this needs to happen!
 
Supply-demand and general wealth within an area drives prices more than anything. There's a bit of misinformation that income is correlated with home prices, which is wrong, not how it works. .

Saw recently that Toronto is 12th or 13th on the list of wealthiest people measured by liquid assets. Every other city on that list has crazy high prices. Toronto isn't unique. The city and general GTA is a playground for the rich and a major reason is that our carrying costs aren't so bad compared to the US. Basically negligible property taxes, which is not really thing in the US. My buddy is a real estate agent and he sees the kinds of people who are buying or even just bidding on many (not all) houses. They've got mini empires in the GTA.
 
blkngldbabe said:
Plus the infrastructure to handle more population.
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This is really just making walkable/bikeable neighbourhoods and not whatever the fuck this was supposed to be:

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I mean, that's a fine lifestyle if you choose it, but don't fucking force it on us as the only way to live in more than 800sq ft.
 
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