04-14-2024, 01:58 AM
(04-13-2024, 04:04 PM)creative Wrote: We can build all the housing we want but people also need good paying jobs to be able to afford that housing. Surprisingly a lot of the recently purpose built (the last 2 or 3 years) rental buildings downtown still have large for rent move in now signs. The rents in these buildings are ridiculously expensive. I know a lot of people that work at Toyota. It may not be the greatest job, but for someone with limited or no post secondary education, they are doing quite well for themselves.
Except we don't have a shortage of jobs. Unless something has changed drastically with the economy and I haven't heard about it, the employment rate has been in the typical low range.
This is unlike housing which has had a clear and growing deficit for years.
So we have a crisis in one thing, which we won't fix, and we have no crisis in a thing we'll do anything to fix.