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Shortly after you posted it the announcement came out - they're building 2000 homes in London Ontario from a previously announced fund that will build 100K homes across all of Canada. That's it. CMHC says we need an additional 3.5 million units by 2030 above what we're already estimated to build, and the best the Liberals can do is 100K?!
Yeah, it wasn't a priority for the Liberals until they realized that it might lose them an election and yet their best attempts are still so far short of what's needed.
It's not nothing...but it's awfully damn close...
The real problem is that both the Liberals and the Conservatives have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo for housing. We need decision makers that are better aligned with actual Canadian families.
https://www.landlordmps.ca/data-analysis
London sits on some pretty nice farmland. Is that really where we want to be building the houses?
If the government is going to build them, surely they can spur development in places where the land is otherwise useless? Put that idle crown land to good use.
I'm trying to compare it to the NDP or Conservative numbers to get a good comparison from when they were in federal office, and all I can see is they didn't do nothing, so it's a low bar. The 99 year lease deal Mr Harper signed away to a foreign country is kinda a negative bonus, so they're looking particularly bad.
I admit this is news to me.l, though, so I don't know what to expect. Based on your personal experience mobilizing proper concrete high density housing during a pandemic recovery, how many should they have planned instead? Be ready to show your work because I want to learn how you came to your assessment.