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by mikerg87 839 days ago
In Ontario where I live its municipal housing that's the problem. In Kitchner/Waterloo where I live local government is hung up on affordable housing in projects like apartment building construction. Ironically because of all the stalling and inaction no housing is afordable for anyone much less the so called poor and disadvantaged they think they are fighting for.
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voisin 839 days ago
The affordable housing that politicians in K-W have focused on is neither sustainable nor sufficient. They are looking at inclusionary zoning which leads to 6-8 “affordable” units in a 300-400 unit development (I.e. drop in the bucket when thousands of units are needed), or they fund non-profits to do very small scale affordable retrofits and somehow manage to spend around $800k-1m per affordable unit brought to market (I.e. not sustainable and also not at a scale to make a dent). The Ontario government needs to create a housing group that does purely affordable developments at large scale, similar to BC.

Side note: K-W represent! :-)

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danlugo92 839 days ago
Why are they artificially restricting housing while at the same time welcome population grow e.g. immigration?
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voisin 839 days ago
Put simply: Housing restriction is largely at the municipal level, whereas immigration is at the federal level.

There are few if any common values or objectives that unite into coherent leadership across levels of government. Everyone for themselves, and the results are quite often ludicrous and to the severe negative for citizens.

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486sx33 839 days ago
Soviet block style housing away from urban centers is the only option for affordable housing, and stop taking over 50% of everyone’s property tax payments to pay for the socialist housing projects
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WarOnPrivacy 839 days ago
> Soviet block style housing away from urban centers is the only option for affordable housing,

Khrushchevka were a creation of socialist housing programs.

>stop taking over 50% of everyone’s property tax payments to pay for the socialist housing projects

Good news. Prop taxes are local and mostly go to pay for schools and other county owned infrastructure.

Socialism is happy to provide the housing you want and funding can come from the same non-municipal sources it always has.

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