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>"What prevents you from just building more housing in all that extra space you have?" That's the wrong way to look at the problem. Developers can already buil
by BitwiseFool 4y ago
>"What prevents you from just building more housing in all that extra space you have?"
That's the wrong way to look at the problem. Developers can already build in the hinterlands, but there's virtually no demand to do so because the economic activity is concentrated in the established cities. You also run into the Siberia problem where despite having massive tracts of "free/undeveloped" land in the taiga, actually inhabiting it is very expensive because of how brutal the weather can be. Unless you have something like a literal gold mine or oil well, the expense of heating the buildings and maintaining the equipment is not at all economically viable.
- seunosewa 4y agoWhat stops you from building more housing where there is demand?
- BitwiseFool 4y agoWe know the answer to that, but the GP was asking why we aren't building in "all that extra space you have" and that's what I was responding to.
- twblalock 4y agoYou don't need to build in the hinterlands. Looking at a map I see space around many major Canadian cities. Vancouver may be the most constrained geographically but quite a lot of it looks suburban and could be built up if the political will existed. Or, Canadians could choose to build nothing but single-family homes, but if they make that choice, they should own it and admit it is the real reason rather than blaming foreigners.