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The NIMBYism crisis in Canada has also reached a fever pitch: https://www.tvo.org/article/by-the-numbers-the-cmhc-says-abandon-all-housing-hope-ye-who-live-in-
by Pxtl 4y ago
The NIMBYism crisis in Canada has also reached a fever pitch:
https://www.tvo.org/article/by-the-numbers-the-cmhc-says-abandon-all-housing-hope-ye-who-live-in-ontario https://www.tvo.org/article/by-the-numbers-the-cmhc-says-aba...
That's the Ontario provincial public broadcaster.
Canada currently builds a measly 286,000 homes per year, but the housing crisis is so severe that the government thinks we need to build 5.7 million homes over the next 9 years to alleviate the crisis. Which is basically impossible. And the municipalities are still crying about Character Of The Neighborhood and the importance of democratic local control.
- pif 4y ago> the government thinks we need to build 5.7 million homes Last time I checked, Canada had plenty of space to build a few million houses. What is the problem?
- Pxtl 4y ago1) Green belts. These exist for good reason -- while Canada is enormous, some of its cities are located within narrow zones of super-arable land that has food security implications if it's developed. Also, greenbelts prevent climate-change-destroying sprawl. 2) Red tape. Canada has a similar problem as Cali, where municipalities have basically declared all buildings larger than a 2 storey detached house to be illegal. The only way anything gets built is through zoning and planning variance committees and provincial quasilegal arbitrators, which take years and add ferocious amounts of carrying costs and legal fees. Provinces are only just getting started tackling this. 3) Industrial capacity. There isn't the available skilled manpower and equipment needed to double and triple our per-year output.