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Yeah I really hope that we gain traction for this within our lifetimes because I think it will be the first step in helping our democracy reflect the will of the people

it’s a harsh reality that climate change will put increased strain on aging infrastructure, one of the many challenges we’re going to have to overcome.

Just looked it up sample size was terrible, take it with the largest grain of salt

What you’re telling me that the corporations that have been opposing climate laws since the beginning of their existence are still opposing climate laws?

The only weapon against this ignorance is to educate the public.

I sure hope not, the only people I’ve heard be pro privatization are Albertans

Your premise is flawed the only reason it falls under the principles of inelastic demand is because of the way our country is structured for cars, if you use the tax to make systemic changes, making public transit and walking/biking possible this is no longer true.

I’m not saying it’s an easy transition but it is a necessary one and Norway and Denmark proves it’s possible

Unfortunately much like America we have a system that punishes split votes with this is mind the question becomes less who do you want and more who do you really not want?

Regardless this is great news and good on the NDP

I can’t speak to BC as I’m from NL and have only spent time in here, Ontario and Quebec.

Much of the problem here is that new developments are all low density, we have high density but it’s business facing or was full since it was built, anything built from the 90s onward was low density.

Agreed, I love walking through old Montreal and Quebec City. Old cities (mostly The ones that predate the popularization of the car) feel so much more alive than other cities mostly due to their people first design and interesting architecture

We need new zoning policies.

The only civilian housing allowed to be built in most areas is single family, low density housing which manufactures scarcity.

There’s also the requirement for driveways and huge front lawns that ensure car dependency further raising the effective cost of living.

We don’t need skyscrapers but we do need something more dense than the traditional single family homes as the cost to maintain our cities and to live as individuals balloon to unforeseen levels.

We’ve taken a lot from Americans and lessons about how to run a city should never be one of them.

Love the background

I’m struggling to find relevence in the non-sequitor here but obviously the current government favors it more than the conservatives.

That is not the issue at hand.

Why stop there? Why don’t we just get rid of everyone Canadian residents included if you’re so eager to find a non-solution.

Withiout a skilled younger generation to support our aging population our economy will collapse, we need more people and we need better planned housing.

Careful, you almost went mask off there

Agreed. Immigration is a must

Our problems are entirely policy and zoning based. Having swoths of low density single-family homes with poor access to public transit is the problem.

Sure having less people does make it less of a problem but it’s never going to fix it and it’s an insane take to suggest otherwise

None of this was a personal attack and to take it as such might mean you need to reevaluate your feelings on the matter.

Pointing back to my original argument I stated that it was often a inflation resistant investment I’m not speaking of single family homes renting out their bottom half or whatever the case may be.

I’m speaking of those you buy up commercial property with no intent to ever do anything with it because the value of the land will vastly outpace the value of inflation.

I’m also speaking about landlords that own hundreds of properties. While someone in your position is becoming increasingly common it is not the majority in housing scarce areas. There are still a few individuals that own large swaths of land.

There are a lot of policy decisions that got us here. But more mixed zoning, more housing, less landlords has been proven time and time again to fix it and while I’m not sold entirely on the Singapore idea I will say that everyone in my generation is fucking sick and tired of people making excuses about what can’t work while people are on the street dying

At this point I think I’m with Singapore on land and housing being a publicly controlled good

As it stands now our housing market is just an inflation resistant bank for the wealthy

They just named the price they’re willing to rent it at its entirely secondary to their goals and so it doesn’t serve the housing market