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500'000 to 1 million immigrants per year is not sustainable especially since there is no housing
Maybe it's just me, but you'd think that anyone moving to another country would try to secure housing BEFORE making the move? Heck, I'll double and triple check hotel accommodations when I'm visiting a new place, let alone assume there will magically be tons of housing to choose from.
This situation is bad for everyone.
A big part out our immigration system is post secondary schools. Students will come to get a diploma and fit into apartments with multiple people to a room. After they are done they now have to find a new place and there aren't enough. Our government should be building so much more housing.
I think the problem is that you can never build enough.
Having a surplus would be bad, but having "enough" today would only mean "not enough" tomorrow because it would increase the demand for housing.
How do you even catch up? Where I live, apparently the fastest growing city in Canada (or Ontario), new developments are everywhere - at alarmingly fast rates, and massive amounts of land are being swallowed up by new housing, apartments, condos, etc. Our infrastructure can't keep up, and our tax rates have gone through the roof.
Building more puts hardships on existing residents, especially with the way the Ford government set things up to accelerate development.
It's a tough problem to solve, and I don't think you can make everyone happy. Maybe we need to start converting old malls and commercial buildings to residential property. Other cities are already doing this.
Hello fellow Londoner.
Oof. London is growing fast, too. Probably faster than Oshawa. 😵
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