I agree with this notion politically, it would be a huge benefit if the federal government: #1 - took in a bigger slice of taxes #2 - redistributed them to mu

I agree with this notion politically, it would be a huge benefit if the federal government: #1 - took in a bigger slice of taxes #2 - redistributed them to municipalities #3 - made this redistribution contingent on densification. What we have now is some tragedy of the commons crap where everybody wants to address the housing prices, but if you call to densify any neighbourhood the local busybodies will cry bloody murder. Yet everybody wants the government to do something about housing, just not in their backyard. The only way for densification to be fair, and not result in one municipality seeing a sharper decline in housing prices than another, is for EVERYBODY to be compelled to change and have each municipality work out the finer details. Alas, I am deeply pessimistic about change, in no small part because elected politicians are far more likely to be landlords than the general population putting them in a huge conflict of interest.