@chloebrown4TO No because I sincerely believe attitudes like OP's is one of the main reasons we lag miles behind on construction of new units and hence the affordability of shelter crisis. No point in not calling them out.

@LeAutoEngineer LMFAO your elected officials are the reason we're lagging behind...

@chloebrown4TO Would they be able to afford the three houses? I don’t understand what it means to “read the room” given the following. How does defending stencil art on those 3 houses impact affordability in any real way?

@chloebrown4TO We need to build more homes. Period. There is no alternative. Failure to build more homes means higher prices and more displacement

@chloebrown4TO I'm more interested in solving the long term problem.

@chloebrown4TO who are these million dollar homes providing shelter for right now?

@chloebrown4TO I agree that housing insecurity is a good reason to be sensitive to change, and that YIMBYs dogpiles don't help anyone. But often these people's arguments amount to demonizing the new residents. As in this case where their homes are contrasted with ones for "real" families.

@chloebrown4TO Agreed.

@chloebrown4TO It's not like those homes were affordable though. If anything they're less affordable than the condos they're being replaced by

@chloebrown4TO Who can afford these duplexes either? If rental apartments were being demoed, it'd be understandable to mourn, but there are a single-digit number of units being demolished here.

@chloebrown4TO There are lots of people who will live in those condos. Where would they live if they didn’t exist? There are lots of homes that I can’t afford to live in in my neighborhood. Why is this a problem?

@chloebrown4TO You’re partly responsible for creating the crisis and you tell us to read the room?

@chloebrown4TO This framing assumes that if these duplexes were remaining on the market, ppl would be able to afford them Condos don't magically erect some wall of exclusion..these duplexes already do that

@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.

@chloebrown4TO I think this is overaction, it is a nice sentiment and tribute to time passed. The people who created the art are not the people who dictate housing policies , nor developers

@chloebrown4TO Why is everyone concerned about homes that have been sitting empty for a long time?

@chloebrown4TO 40 Raglan(This pic is from 2021,sign wasnt up yet) has had a notice in front of the building for 1.5 years now. Why is no one concerned that a perfectly fine rental building might be torn down for condos? But all the focus is on the decrepit single family homes?

@chloebrown4TO But I can afford a detached house downtown? Comin Chloe you know that the condos will be cheaper than this, if we had more, than more people could afford shelter.

@chloebrown4TO Chloe, do you think that those duplexes would be more or less affordable than the condos that will replace them?

@chloebrown4TO Very bad take. The response to the shelter crisis is to stop building shelters? Had these single family homes stayed, they would be unbelievably costly. But some people get blinded by the romanticism of walk-up single family homes. The vandal further perpetuated this imagery.