Population and Housing

[ac3r]

Social housing would be helpful to see as well. It's one thing for interest rates and all that to drop, but not everyone can actually afford to buy a home. The government should be building modern public social housing projects all over the country. We've learned many lessons from the days of projects like Regent Park (and can look to our neighbours in the USA for more lessons - their attempts at this were absolutely disastrous) so it is entirely possible to subsidize housing for people and develop vibrant, safe communities.

There are so many people living pay cheque to pay cheque across this country that would jump at the chance to have truly affordable housing available. And to me, that means building large scale projects that can provide it. Which would be superior to the current model 25 units here, 50 units there, 10 units there which tend to be entirely reliant on the generosity of private rental/condo developers, rather than an actual organization within the government who's mission it is to build and manage public social housing (well, I know we have that, but it's not at the scale it ought to be).