CanadaPolitics

1895 readers

3 users here now

Placeholder for any r/CanadaPolitics refugees

Rules:

All of Lemmy.ca's rules apply

No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia.
Be respectful. Everyone should feel welcome here.
No porn.
No Ads / Spamming.

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

lightrush@lemmy.ca

grte@lemmy.ca

Housing developers say they can't keep up with population growth in N.S. without big changes (www.cbc.ca)

submitted 1 year ago by grte@lemmy.ca to c/canadapolitics@lemmy.ca

6 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] SkepticalButOpenMinded@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

The fact is, big developers love housing restrictions. Here in Vancouver, they buy up strips of land along arterial roads and then lobby the city council to approve mega towers along them. If you were allowed to build medium density everywhere, big developers would lose control. NIMBYs and big developers are often on the same side, and they often support the same conservative pro-business city parties.

We’ll never see affordable housing without broad changes to zoning, less community obstruction, and more public investment in non-market housing.