Unfortunately, it looks like he’s going to elected in a couple years. I just hope people remember after a term of the Conservatives cutting important environmental policies like the carbon tax, that they will have failed to make like more affordable AND fucked up the environment more.
The conservative parties that won in the UK didn’t manage to make things more affordable, the conservative party that won in Australia didn’t manage it either, no party anywhere has managed it.
This crisis isn’t caused by local government zoning policies, approval red tape, or anything else that the parties are talking about. It’s caused by landowners (including people who own only one property) using a home as an investment.
You cannot have homes appreciate in value faster than inflation (investments) and also have affordable housing. It’s impossible. That’s literally just a pyramid scheme.
Until the government starts implementing policies that start reducing existing home prices, this will not be fixed. Building more units doesn’t do this unless you build impossibly (literally impossible) large numbers.
So stop voting with your emotions and vote with your brain.
What a god awful ‘plan’ , if a municipality can’t get housing permits out the door faster they’ll lose federal money. So a failure to build* faster will see potholes linger, sewer systems forgo repair another year, and other critical maintenance tasks and improvements go down the drain.
But whatever, I guess I thought about the plan for too long, this is a ‘common sense’ plan and you just have to turn off your brain and roll with it.
*What am I even saying? Permits are not homes, nor workers to build them nor money to pay the workers. As if Canada is just loaded with idle developers and construction workers.