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@REAPOCALYP

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My kid is two feet tall. This lady: “the bright yellow bollard is two feet tall. Who can see that? Next thing you know you hear a CRUNCH , and then you *keep going*…”. Ok I’ve heard enough. Remove the license. Install more bollards please.

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@Kaos_Vs_Control

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Perfect example of why we need bollards everywhere

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I’m not a NIMBY I just …… *checks notes* …… would prefer that this *coughs* … apartment building…. Er…. Not be located in my …… uh…… immediate vecinity

Michael Geller

@michaelgeller

4 months

How would you feel if this was proposed on your duplex lined street? Precisely. Which is why I opposed aspects of the Broadway Plan. My friends on West 14th aren't NIMBYs but don't want this next door, so I am motivated to start the battle all over again.

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Michael Geller

@michaelgeller

2 months

Even tho there's @Canucks hockey tonight there are a lot of people in Kits Neighbourhood House concerned about impacts of the Broadway Plan on Kits and surrounding neighbourhood. I'm here as a speaker b/c notwithstanding the hsg crisis, a tenfold increase in density is wrong! :(

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@GoVern2018 Thank god that bike lane was protected so no innocent cyclists got murdered by a bad driver.

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Three cents per litre. I barely drive but my rent is over 3,000/per month and this clown refuses to do anything about rent prices. I get more back in carbon rebate than I spend on carbon tax (three cents per litre lol). Good thing I get a carbon rebate, rent is killing me.

Doug Ford

@fordnation

2 months

It was great to join you and so many motivated volunteers. Door after door, people told me they can’t afford the Liberal carbon tax. We’re here to keep costs down and bring relief to people’s pocketbooks. More on that tomorrow.

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2 months

Just checking in on our registered community planner. “…rents going down 30% to 40% would be suicidal”

Michael Geller

@michaelgeller

2 months

@BobRansford @Bill_McCreery @pmcondon2 I'm not an economist but know that when @CMHC_ca said we need to build 5.8 more homes by 2030 to make housing affordable they weren't suggesting we can or should do this. They were saying that's what would be needed to reduce prices & rents by 30%-40%. But that would be suicidal!

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This is CPC on climate change

Dan Albas MP

@DanAlbas

2 months

"If greenhouse gases are a problem, they’re a global problem. Canada can do nothing by itself to solve it. If the Canadian economy were to disappear tomorrow, the increase in emissions from China, which is building two new coal-fired power plants per week, would more than makeup…

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@REAPOCALYP

29 days

Doug fords worst nightmare

Jonathan Berk

@berkie1

30 days

We put numerous regulations in place to preserve historic, walkable, neighborhoods like Boston's Back Bay. At the same time we put numerous regulations in place to ensure we could never replicate great, walkable, neighborhoods like Boston's Back Bay today.

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You literally can not pay Conservative premiers to cut red tape on housing. Federal gov: I will pay you billions to cut red tape on housing Alberta & Ontario conservatives: LIKE FUCK YOU WILL.

Alberta says Ottawa is overstepping by funding municipalities directly for housing projects |...

Alberta's Social Services Minister Jason Nixon told reporters on Friday provinces are best equipped to deal with local housing issues.

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4 months

The NIMBY brain cannot comprehend this.

Kyrsten's Closet

@KyrstensCloset

4 months

@StatisticUrban Thanks for proving my point. Y'all don't really care about social housing. Fact of the matter is that trying to solve the issue of affordability through volume would take decades, if at all, even in "ideal" conditions. That's why social housing has to be part of the solution.

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2 months

If lower density translates into greater affordability, why is housing in Shaughnessy so expensive.

Michael Geller

@michaelgeller

2 months

"If more density translates into greater affordability, why is Vancouver's housing so expensive?" asks @pmcondon2 since we've had a significant increase in housing supply.

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4 months

What would help *a metric f#%k ton* is if PROVINCES would broadly upzone within walking distance of post secondary schools, allowing density as of right with no poison pills.

Sean Fraser

@SeanFraserMP

4 months

Canada needs more student housing. It helps students find a place they can afford near their classes and creates space in the community for families, which brings down the cost of a home for everybody. That’s why we’re going to build more of it.

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Doug ford LOVES sprawl. What better way to help his wedding guests monetize their land banks. But sprawl is bad for the economy, people living far away from jobs/amenities in car dependent suburbs is what CAUSES traffic. To get rid of traffic build dense walkable communities

Doug Ford

@fordnation

3 months

I’m gobsmacked. A federal minister said they won’t invest in new roads or highways. He doesn’t care that you’re stuck in bumper to bumper traffic. I do. We’re building roads and highways, with or without a cent from the feds.

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THE ONTARIO CONSERVATIVE GOVERNMENT IS THE WORST ON HOUSING POLICY OF ANY GOVERNMENT

Robert Benzie

@robertbenzie

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NEW: As Premier Doug Ford rewards mayors for meeting housing targets it turns out he isn’t achieving his objectives — and risking $357M in federal funding for failing to do so. #onpoli

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4 months

Once again I’m begging people to understand Investors target markets where they believe demand exceeds supply. If “Investors” are your boogeyman then help us advocate for increased housing supply and a LVT. It’s the only way to stick it to those evil housing investors.!

Rachel Gilmore

@atRachelGilmore

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"But the immigrants!!!!!" bro, we need more houses and as soon as we build them greedy fucks buy them so they can profit off them, not live in them:

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@j_mcelroy One more sweep bro. Come on, one more sweep I promise that will end homelessness. One more sweep bro.

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4 months

The person who wrote this has literal brain damage. When it comes to property tax in Toronto, renters are subsidizing homeowners, keeping homeowners taxes artificially low. Older apartment buildings have much higher property tax rates than what single family homeowners pay.

The Globe and Mail

@globeandmail

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Toronto needs to stop squeezing its homeowners for tax revenue

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@REAPOCALYP

5 months

@GraChurch @Aequalatus @EricDLombardi SFH owners could live in Cochrane, where plots of land are going for 10$. But instead they want to block apartments in our biggest city, ruining our economy and our environment. Selfish A holes.

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Reminder that Canada built 274k housing units in 1974 when the population was half the size and interest rates were 10%+. Provincial/municipal regulations impede economies of scale. Labour productivity in the construction industry could be a lot better off if provinces wanted.

realNickKouvalis

@NickKouvalis

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Doc, how many homes does Canada normally build per year? 225,000? 250,000? What is the maximum yield of the total construction industry? Have you factored in about 15% of workers in construction who will retire over the next 5-10 years. My simple colonial math skills come up…

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@ColinDMello I took my kids to the science centre this past weekend and the place was packed. I guess the question is why do you have to move it to increase attendance? If they won’t spend money to maintain the existing facility why should we believe they will maintain a new one?

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2 years

@MarkinMetaForm You speak the truth Mark. The data supports you. Canada shows poorly in real gdp per capita and projected to have the worst performance in the oecd by that metric

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9 months

@TheThanigasalam Damnit man. The OPC have not chosen to build housing. You did not implement 90% of your own Housing Affordability Task force recommendations from Feb of 2022. You chose corruption and sprawl, over actually building houses in places people want to live.

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11 months

*CMHC awakens from 30 year coma, declares affordability will soon be an issue* via @

Changing amortization, cap on insured mortgages not the answer to affordability: CMHC

financialpost.com

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4 months

Metro mayors [sobbing] “ Noooo. We zoned those greenfield residential areas as single family detached because we wanted them to be car dependent forever! We have no intention of fighting climate change” Arguing against upzoning because of transit is similar to this:

The Vancouver Sun

@VancouverSun

4 months

B.C.'s higher housing density plan's 'blanket' approach raises concerns among Metro mayors

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1 year

@YorkRegion Proof that the province needs to take over everything to do with land use planning. Local control is what got us into this housing crisis. Local control is going to keep us in a state of crisis.

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Jagmeet has a child’s understanding of housing. Federal NDP should just let the BC NDP take over all housing related everything (and then they would be the strongest federal party on housing)

Jagmeet Singh

@theJagmeetSingh

4 months

Justin Trudeau says one thing but does the other. I visited Edmonton Griesbach, where Justin Trudeau promised to build more affordable homes. Instead, he's building luxury condos you can’t afford. With his plan — developers get rich, you get gouged.

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1) upzoning is good for the environment, so I would have expected a *GREEN* to support it even if it didn’t help lower rents. 2) upzoning has been proven to help control rents. 3) upzoning is complimentary to social housing (these are not mutually exclusive things)

Adam Olsen

@AdamPOlsen

4 months

“The BC NDP’s approach to housing is not an urgent solution to a housing affordability crisis but rather a short-term communication exercise, increasing the wealth of homeowners and hopes of renters leading into a provincial election.”

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@REAPOCALYP

9 months

IM ONCE AGAIN ASKING FOR PEOPLE TO CHECK DATA AND DO MATH BEFORE POSTING. The percentage of 🇨🇦 aged 20 - 34 living with parents or roommates is around 50% (statscan) On a population of 40 million, a 0.1 change in household size is over 600k houses worth of demand.

Canadian Housing Evidence Collaborative

@CHEC_CCRL

9 months

Yes, suppressed household formation could be happening, and if met might pull the average persons per home down a little, but this would only marginally increase the number of homes required and the historic trend will still hold more or less true. - pt 8

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Marit. Please speak these words: “the ON NDP pledge to implement 100% of the housing policies recently implemented by the BC NDP, if we form the next government of Ontario” I beg you. On my knees. Please for the love of god and the sake of all that is holy I beseech you. 🙏

Marit Stiles

@MaritStiles

1 month

After 5 years of Doug Ford’s Conservatives, it’s never been more expensive to rent or own a home. His latest housing legislation is weak - lacking the vision, ambition or urgency to build the housing people need right now. #ONpoli

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Isn’t complaining about these particular strings telling on themselves? The strings are simply to allow more housing to be built and to stop increasing taxes on housing. Conservative premiers should be falling all over themselves to get paid for cutting red tape and taxes.

Jeff Gray

@jeffreybgray

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Premiers warn against Ottawa encroaching on provincial jurisdiction and attaching strings to funding, but PM Trudeau is unapologetic: “I’d always rather work with provinces. But if we have to, I will go around them and be there for Canadians.”

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@REAPOCALYP

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This guy is the mayor of Windsor. Look at how many houses they built! Windsor is like the 7th largest city in the province and he came in ranked 35th in housing starts. Windsor is ten times bigger than innisfil, and innisfil built DOUBLE the housing units. What a clown.

Mayor Drew Dilkens

@drewdilkens

2 months

As I have maintained, I stand behind and remain committed to increasing the supply of housing in Windsor with smart densification that makes sense for this community. Our Housing Solutions Made for Windsor plan respects the residents’ investments and protecting the integrity

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A system geared toward “building generational wealth through real estate” will do that. Just a couple more generations to go before we are right back to feudalism with landed gentry and serfs. Congratulations everyone well done.

Floyd Marinescu 🔰

@floydmarinescu

6 months

Wow... new StatCan study shows how housing has become an inheritance culture in Canada. Hard work doesn't payoff like it used to - what matters more now is family wealth. Young adults are 2x as likely to own a home if their parents do, and over 3x if they own 3+ properties.

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@BrianVMontague @VisionZeroYVR What was the misinformation? You can’t say there is misinformation without stating what the misinformation is. If you don’t elaborate then it’s you that are in fact spreading misinformation.

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@ColinDMello The housing affordability task force gave them a number of suggestions that are fully within provincial control, and they haven’t bothered implementing. It’s sad that they won’t not take the required actions that are within their control.

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The NIMBYs know they are wrong, it’s why they only go after straw men and refuse to engage with the substance of the actual argument. No one is proposing we ban single family homes. Upzoning allows for more options so it will no longer be exclusively single family homes.

Shane Wenzel

@ShaneWenzel

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“Cities are under pressure to abolish R1 zoning, which is a relic of the 1950s housing boom and allows for single-family homes.” Sorry, but no. Single-family homes aren’t a relic. 67% of Canadians want to own one.

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Only a complete moron would believe we can build 1.5 million single family homes over ten years. It’s not possible, but more importantly that would be financially unsustainable, all the new roads and infrastructure to support that sprawl would bankrupt us & destroy nature.

Colin D'Mello | Global News

@ColinDMello

2 months

Ford says his government’s focus is on single-dwelling homes and town homes.

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@REAPOCALYP

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When we had our third child I bought an Imperial class star destroyer. It’s very safe and built like a tank. We always had sedans and crossovers which have no chance against large trucks. The lives of my children are too important to risk to another driver.

Jerimiah Lee Lancaster

@JerimiahLee

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When we had our third child I bought a Yukon. It’s very safe and built like a tank. We always had sedans and crossovers which have no chance against large trucks. The lives of my children are too important to risk to another driver.

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@yelich_ivana You chose not to implement 90% of the recommendations from the Housing Affordability Task Force made in Feb of 2022. FYI the HATF did NOT recommend building on the greenbelt. That’s just pure corruption.

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6 months

If the province deliberately excludes Ontario place from a provincial environmental assessment, that is an open invitation to the federal government to do an environmental assessment. Can’t really argue jurisdiction when you’ve publicly abdicated your responsibility.

Laura Stone

@l_stone

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“Monday’s bill would give Infrastructure Minister Kinga Surma the power to issue what is known as a minister’s zoning order to approve the project…& would explicitly exclude Ontario Place from environmental assessment,” via @jeffreybgray #onpoli

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WE - ARE - IN - A - *HOUSING* - *CRISIS* Doug Ford and the conservatives only support the most expensive forms of housing (single family detached) but they are very concerned about the cost of paper bags. Why have we elected the dumbest person in the province to be premier.

Richard Southern

@RichardCityNews

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NEW - Premier Ford writes the LCBO asking it to overturn its decision to not provide free paper bags. “At a time when many Ontario families are already struggling to make ends meet, every additional expense counts. That includes charging customers for reusable bags”

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I’m sorry but the federal liberals have lost me. They are reverting to demand subsidies again. 30year amortization AND 60k RRSP withdrawals. So dumb. I thought they grew out of this. I guess brain damage never really goes away.

Daniel Foch

@daniel_foch

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“Freeland also said the government will nearly double -- to $60,000 -- the amount first-time homebuyers can withdraw from RRSPs to buy a home.”

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Regular reminder that the Ontario *PROVINCIAL* government has refused to implement the land use reforms recommended by the Housing Affordability Task Force in Feb 2022.

CP24

@CP24

2 months

Average asking rent prices reach $2,193 in February, up 10.5% from 2023

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@OldManNairb @TorontoStar All the workers should move away? All of them? Really? How do you think businesses, hospitals, libraries, grocery stores, day cares, etc. would stay open with no workers? Did you spend even 5 seconds thinking before you typed that?

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I’m begging people to understand that investors bid up units in markets that are supply constrained, because those are the markets that will see the highest rent growth. This post by GenSqueeze, is destroyed by looking at evidence.

Generation Squeeze

@GenSqueeze

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Housing Affordability in Canada: The problem with the “Build! Build! Build!” approach to the #HousingCrisis 🧵

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This attitude explains why Windsor achieved 36% of their 2023 housing goals. The province should be ashamed and embarrassed to have appointed this NIMBY to be the chair of that Housing Supply Action Plan Implementation Team. What a joke.

Mayor Drew Dilkens

@drewdilkens

3 months

Statement regarding the City of Windsor's Housing Accelerator Fund Submission to the Federal Government.

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DOUG IS NOT GETTING IT DONE. Housing starts per capita in Ontario are in the tank and trending lower. Meanwhile BC has implemented pro market reforms and is leading the pack (even though its early days and those reforms will show bigger impacts later)

Doug Ford

@fordnation

2 months

Bonnie Crombie wants to force four-storey buildings in every neighbourhood. She thinks she knows better than every single mayor. I believe in working WITH mayors to build the right homes in the right places and rewarding them for their success. That’s how you get it done.

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Conservatives think the only variable that influences housing production is interest rates yet per capita housing construction in the 1970s was double what we got now with higher interest rates. It’s way more complex than pointing at interest rates.

Dan Albas MP

@DanAlbas

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"Why so few new homes when there is so much demand? Because of the Liberal government’s inflationary policies, slow economic growth and higher interest rates. Unemployment is up and so are mortgage rates, both of which depress home construction. Combine high interest and high…

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@g_hot_soup @jen_keesmaat The cons did not publicly advertise that the greenbelt was up for review (it’s required to be reviewed every ten years. Last review was only 5 years ago). Only fords wedding guests were allowed to apply, in secret. They used NDAs to block consultations so no stakeholders …../x

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Federal government coming out with a whole bunch of great pro housing initiatives and the Alberta Conservatives response is to enact the Not In My Back Yard act. The NIMBY act for short. It’s perfect 10/10 no notes.

Globe Politics

@globepolitics

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Alberta Premier Danielle Smith touts proposed law limiting access to federal funds, calling it ‘stay out of my backyard bill’

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2 months

Geller is always wrong about literally everything.

Jedwin Mok

@jedwinmok

2 months

This tiny metro moves more people than Portland’s ENTIRE rail network. - Canada Line: 94,000 pax/day - Portland MAX: 74,000 pax/day It’s faster, more reliable, and costs HALF to build. - Canada Line: $75 M/km - MAX Orange: $135 M/km Clearly Vancouver made the wrong choice…

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@WallStreetSilv Toronto Canada, one bedroom apartment rent is 2,500/month. Median HOUSEHOLD income is ~78k per year. After tax, the median household would spend 50% of their income to rent a one bedroom apartment.

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@guyfelicella My personal opinion is that the mayor should live in a shelter for awhile and then report back on how well we are doing as a society in providing care to those most in need.

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Mississauga only achieved 27% of their 2023 housing targets. So of course they are going to oppose an apartment building beside *checks notes* a GO station and a future LRT. I mean, why wouldn’t you block apartments during a housing crisis.

John@TheNews

@JohnAtTheNews

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'Intensification': Huge 29-storey tower proposed for Mississauga neighbourhood set to be opposed by city staff via @MissiNewsRoom

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The HATF recommendation was to allow all of the following in relation to 4 plex as of right: - 4 storeys - no parking minimums - over ride minimum lot size - override floor area ratio limits - over ride set backs The province didn’t do any of this, is why the uptake is limited

Colin D'Mello | Global News

@ColinDMello

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NEW: The Ford government is questioning whether fourplex policies are actually effective in tackling the housing crisis. The housing minister points to Toronto's 4-units stats as evidence of low uptake. #onpoli

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@DouglasTodd @GoldinYVR It’s an interesting tactic when people only support six stories when they are talking about downzoning a high rise, but they don’t support upzoning every single neighborhood to allow six stories as of right everywhere.

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4 months

BC NDP keeps winning.

Ravi Kahlon

@KahlonRav

4 months

We’re leaving no stone unturned in our work to deliver more homes for people, faster. We have launched an RFP to work with all partners in order to safely update the BC Building Code with single egress stairs in buildings up to 8 storeys. 👉🏾

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@fordnation Doug Fords entire defence is a false dichotomy. We do not have to choose corruption/enriching his friends. We could build 1.5 million homes without green belt land. If we wanted to build on greenbelt land, it doesn’t have to be his friends greenbelt land. Corruption is bad.

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@chloebrown4TO Replacing three homes with over a hundred homes is undeniably a good thing. The room for improvement here is better compensation to displaced renters. The objective should be to allow the expansion of the housing stock while minimizing financial damages to existing renters.

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@ColinDMello Please someone follow up and ask him why he hasn’t implemented 90% of the Housing Affordability Task Force recommendations from Feb 2022. If the need for housing is so dire, why not do the things his expert task force advised him to do?

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I think we’ve all known that Doug Ford and the Conservatives are a bunch of HUGE NIMBYs who are opposed to fixing the housing crisis, but it’s nice to get the official confirmation anyways.

Colin D'Mello | Global News

@ColinDMello

2 months

NEW: After lots of internal deliberations about fourplexes (four units as-of-right) province wide - Premier Doug Ford shuts down the effort. Ford says that’s “off the table for us” largely because there would be push back from residents. #onpoli

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He is prioritizing the aesthetic preferences of *only some* wealthy comfortably housed incumbents over literally everyone and everything else. Sprawl is financially and environmentally stupid, and will only prolong the housing crisis.

Colin D'Mello | Global News

@ColinDMello

2 months

Premier Doug Ford chuckles when he's asked about the criticism that he's now a NIMBY. "If I put a 4-storey tower beside you or your neighbors, they'd lose their minds." #onpoli

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@dougboneparth Stole this from a guy.

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@REAPOCALYP

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Regular reminder that the BC NDP are best in class (by a wide margin) on housing related reforms , and the ON NDP *have NOT* said they would implement any of the same policies.

Jessica Bell

@JessicaBellTO

13 days

Ontario’s housing crisis is at a breaking point, and we cannot afford to keep wasting time. But how did we get here? Although the crisis feels complex, the answer is simple: lack of leadership and political will. Despite the rhetoric, Ontario is not on track to build 1.5 million…

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“Why can you guys just be honest” says the guy who’s lying. If the zoning doesn’t allow a four plex then you can’t legally build a four plex. You could try and go through a painful, expensive, multi year process to get the zoning changed but the probability of success is low

Mayor Drew Dilkens

@drewdilkens

2 months

@SeanFraserMP “Illegal to build” is a totally false narrative. None of these are “illegal”. Why can’t you guys just be honest in your approach and stop playing politics with housing? #respectlocaldecisionmaking #ambitioushousingplan

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@ValerieRoss14 They don’t want to get rid of zoning. They want to get rid of exclusionary zoning that restricts large areas to only allowing detached single family homes. You should say they want to amend zoning to allow more affordable forms of shelter than single family homes.

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@BonnieCrombie @ScottAAitchison @PierrePoilievre Good job proving you are completely detached from reality. We can all see the number of completions in Mississauga, relative to your housing targets you are pretty close to the worst jurisdiction in the province, and you actually believe you are doing well?????? Lmao.

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We built 274k in a year with a population about half the size and interest rates around 10%.

Steve Saretsky

@SteveSaretsky

26 days

The record high for annual housing completions in this country is 274k set back in 1974. The federal government is promising 3.9M homes by 2031. That’s more than DOUBLE the record high, and you’d have to do it 7 years straight with interest rates at their highest levels in 20…

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@jacoobaloo I can’t even. This explains everything and I think we all knew but didn’t expect them to say it out loud.

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@fordnation Is that why you’ve so far refused to implement 90% of the recommendations from your own Housing Affordability Task Force report, dated Feb 2022? You’ve been laser focused on avoiding doing all the things required to actually build enough housing where people want to live.

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@REAPOCALYP

2 months

ITS A TRANSFER OF WEALTH!!!! ….. from people who emit lots of pollution to people who emit less pollution, thereby incentivizing everyone equally to reduce their emissions in an effort to fight climate change****

National Post

@nationalpost

2 months

Letters: What's with Justin Trudeau's obsession with the carbon tax?

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@REAPOCALYP

1 year

@HonAhmedHussen If you honestly believed your actions were going to reduce rents and reduce the cost of home ownership why did you just buy ANOTHER rental property? If you believed your actions were going to work then personally investing in rental properties wouldn’t make sense.

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All the rezoning applications pass

Dave 🫤🤔😬

@VanPoliMorphus

3 months

The reality is that while some people oppose some projects, essentially no rezoning applications ever get "blocked by opponents". They all pass. This city is full of apartment building with loads more being built, not just in the West End, but all over.

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The only reason a SFH is priced lower per sq ft in a given location is because A) the restrictive zoning artificially depresses the land price. B) we charge SFH the absolute lowest development charges on a per sq ft basis C) ignore travel cost from having to commute.

John Pasalis

@JohnPasalis

4 months

@MikePMoffatt Mike, I did not say condos are inferior. I said they are not more affordable simply because the sale price is lower -which is what you are arguing. I don’t know how one can make conclusions about affordability while ignoring house size. Based on your logic, as long as builders…

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@jacoobaloo

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All Canadian businesses are asking for is: - protection from competition via regulation - access to cheap labour via international students & TFW - lower their cost of capital by forcing pension plans to invest in Canada Is that too much? Whats the worst that can happen.

Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱

@acoyne

2 months

The self-serving short-sightedness of Canadian business leaders is one of the great constants of the universe, like gravity and the speed of light. Senior business leaders support proposal asking pension funds to invest more in Canada

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@Sflecce @fordnation It’s possible to build houses without the corruption though. Your team saying corruption is a pre requisite are just being bad people. Your own Housing Affordability Task Force gave you 50 recommendations on how to build enough housing sans corruption & you ignored them.

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@BonnieCrombie This is proof that a higher level of government needs to take over land use policy. 120k is a low number, and maintaining Mississaugas identity is preserving vast areas of low density car dependent suburban sprawl. It is bad for the environment and expensive to service.

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A Better Ottawa

@ABetterOttawa

1 month

Worried about Ottawa’s finances? In the last 20 years, the metro area of Ottawa-Gatineau lost population density. That means fewer people spread over a larger area paying for expensive infrastructure. Low density & low taxes means cuts in services. It just isn’t sustainable.

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1 year

@TorontoStar This comes across as classist. If someone doesn’t have enough money to buy a SFH they don’t deserve to live in the city? What the hell does “hit hardest” mean? Like allowing less wealthy people to live close by is some kind of a burden or punishment?

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@REAPOCALYP

4 months

Jagmeet Sing “these are luxury units that no one can afford” The “luxury units”:

Jacob Loo Dawang 🔰

@jacoobaloo

4 months

@WillfulAlpaca 80% AMR in Edmonton

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@brianlilley Here is the story of cummer Ave. City asked Clark for an MZO so they could build affordable housing. Still waiting over 750 days and Clark refuses to let TO build affordable housing

HousingNowTO

@HousingNowTO

11 months

[Day 751] Case Management hearing on the vexatious #NIMBY appeal of City's approved #ModularHousing site at 175 CUMMER AVE. Tentative OLT Hearing dates about this new #SupportiveHousing development will be NOVEMBER 1st, 2nd & 3rd, 2023... that's 125-days from today in #TOPoli ...

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Toronto needs to do a lot better. I hope Sean Fraser allocates zero dollars of HAF money to them until they up their game.

More Neighbours Toronto

@MoreNeighbours

5 months

Today, City Council will consider a motion from @MayorOliviaChow on the federal Housing Accelerator Fund. Unfortunately, given the lack of commitment to systemic reform, we are calling on @SeanFraserMP to reject Toronto's application unless substantial changes are made. 🧵(1/12)

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Lisa MacLeod, member of OPC majority government “I don’t know how we are going to hit our housing targets” Also OPC: “we refuse to implement the Housing Affordability Task Force Recommendations that were specifically designed to help us hit our housing targets.

Lisa MacLeod

@MacLeodLisa

5 months

🏘️ We need to build housing in Ottawa. Young families cannot afford a home, and NIMBYs are standing in the way of increasing our housing supply. It’s time we get shovels in the ground and build, and $100 million is available if our city meets its targets, too.

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@PrabSarkaria You chose not to implement 90% of the recommendations from the Housing Affordability Task Force. The idea that you needed to be corrupt to build housing is laughable.

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1 month

Tearing down a SFH to build apartments is way better than tearing down apartments to build apartments. We need to build inside existing urban boundaries, and inside those boundaries in places where previously apartments weren’t allowed. This minimizes displacement.

Phil Pothen

@pothen

1 month

The fine print will be VITAL to ensuring that this change does not inadvertently hamstring the "Accelerated CCA for purpose-built rentals" change. To ensure that we aren't bulldozing existing tenants' apartments, a lot of new family-friendly PBR will need to replace bungalows.

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@donnelly_b Counterpoint: it is more economically efficient to rely on land value taxes than any other tax and we should be reducing income taxes and shifting to taxing property more (LVT would be better than property tax IMO)

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Wrong Tom. Jagmeet is using NIMBY talking points and it’s triggering pro housing people of all political stripes. Also, Jag & the fed NDP seem incapable of weighing trade offs, like why do you think social housing includes both market rate and subsidized units? There is a reason

Tom Parkin

@TomPark1n

6 months

It’s so telling how much this clip has triggered Liberals but they can’t explain why

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6 months

Does anyone believe Katie’s “concern” is with affordability? No one fighting to preserve exclusionary zoning gives AF about affordability.

Katie DeRosa

@katiederosayyj

6 months

@TalktoARYZE There are legitimate concerns that flooding the market with more supply is not going to make things more affordable for people who’ve been priced out. Creating million $ townhouses on single family lots is not going to help lower to middle-income earners

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Going the inclusionary zoning route is the first misstep I’ve seen from the BC government. IZ only works if those units are funded. Unfunded IZ just reduces housing supply and raises the price floor at which new developments can be feasible.

Ravi Kahlon

@KahlonRav

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We're building more homes for people than ever before, but at the same time we must ensure homes are being built in communities people love. That's why today, I tabled a Bill that will give local governments the authority to enact bylaws that support proactive planning. 🧵[1/3]

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Kyrsten's Closet

@KyrstensCloset

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@MattHaneySF Hey anything that makes sure Developers can turn a massive profit while raising the land value/rent in the surrounding area amirite? That's how we solve the housing problem right? Increasing the land value?

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@CanadaPoli2 @jen_keesmaat @ChiefCopenace Are the lies in the room with you right now?

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@brianlilley He didn’t implement 90% of the Housing Affordability Task Force recommendations. The things he refused to implement were the recommendations to allow dense new housing to be built as of right inside existing urban boundaries. Here’s a sample of things he refused to do:

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@ColinDMello DoFo has issued a press release stating that if the bribe was channeled through a family member at a family event then it’s fair play, double stamped it, black ball beats em all no erasies.

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@C_Mulroney No one wants this highway. The only reason you are building it is because Doug Fords close personal friends have land banked the entire route and will make a fortune building sprawl housing.

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This is hilarious. He’s endorsing PPs housing plan, which is to bully cities into upzoning. Lmao. He is apparently holding off on upzoning Vancouver in hopes that PP wins the next election and then bullies him into upzoning, like some kind of urban masochist.

Mayor Ken Sim

@KenSimCity

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The federal government has an important role to play when it comes to housing. The City of Vancouver has a long-standing commitment to work with senior levels of government to build more homes faster for Vancouverites. What is being proposed by the Leader of the Official…

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Anyone else predicting *all* the infrastructure money goes to BC, since Ontario is clearly signalling they are opposed to housing and the rest of the premiers have been silent from what I can tell.

Laura Stone

@l_stone

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B.C. Premier David Eby on fed housing announcement: “We think it’s critically important to tie infrastructure funding to a clear commitment to build housing.... If provinces don’t step up, if they don’t do this, the money should come to the provinces who are doing the work.”

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Sprawl is bad. The government is spending 10 billion + to destroy the environment while making traffic on the roads worse, and tying a millstone around municipal finances since sprawled out neighborhoods don’t generate enough tax revenue to pay for their municipal services.

Doug Ford

@fordnation

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We’re getting it done on Highway 413! Today, I joined union and industry partners to announce the next steps as we prepare to get shovels in the ground on Highway 413 by 2025, adding $350 million to our GDP and 3,500 good-paying jobs in the skilled trades during the construction…

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Jacob Loo Dawang 🔰

@jacoobaloo

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@jm_mcgrath Too bad you can't build them four storey towers anywhere lmao.

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