Housing shortfall, costs and affordability

[danbrotherston]

Doug Ford finally says it out loud: he thinks that homeowners losing value is worse than people dying in tents and young people leaving the province.

Also, it’s odd how the “fiscal conservatives” continue to choose the urban planning that costs the most to build and maintain.

https://x.com/colindmello/status/1770806...68065?s=46

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The thing about Ford is that he has basically no values. Now, I've before said that he does seem to respond when people are angry at him, and this is absolutely true...he'll pander to whomever most recently yelled at him. So he must have gotten a call from a NIMBY this morning.

That being said, I don't think this is particularly controversial. There are basically no politicians who actually want to solve the housing crisis...and of the general population, it's very non-mainstream view to understand how single family homes are harmful to cities. Even the war on cars is more mainstream than that IMO. Now yes, most people object to sprawl, but most people don't seem to make the connection between sprawl and single family homes. Or to put it more succinctly, the average person is geometrically challenged (at least when it comes to scale). They don't even grasp that about cars...the death, toxic air and noise pollution, traffic congestion, immense financial cost, social mobility, and climate change are really the only factors which are driving people to question cars.