2021 federal election

[Bytor]

Housing ... I like NDP's target of 100K affordable units per year. I do wonder whether it's achievable -- think 1,700 units per year in the region. Even with the fast-start funds, will there be enough developers, enough contractors, and, most importantly, enough available and appropriately zoned land available?

I doubt it. 70+% of Kitchener residential area is for single-family homes only. That you can now make coach houses or tiny homes in the back yard is a useless gesture. The CRoZBy programme which has proposed that the current R-1 through R-9 zones be replaced by RES-1 through RES-7 is utterly useless as well.

We'd be much better off to take the R-1 through R-4 or RES-1 through RES-3 and make them all R-5 or RES-4 to encourage building the missing middle housing all over the city.