Ont. mayor can’t afford to buy house in township she leads
kitchener.ctvnews.ca
Waterloo Region’s red-hot housing market hits close to home for Wilmot Township Mayor Natasha Salonen.

Time to loosen zoning restrictions and say no to NIMBYs Ms. Mayor. *

Despite earning around $90,000 a year between her work as mayor, regional councillor and with the local electric utility, she says she can’t afford to buy a home in the municipality she leads.

* yeah, she’s still paying off student loans, and I don’t know what zoning restrictions are like in her community. But still.

  • Dearche
    5·
    11 months ago

    Pretty much every city in the country needs like ten times that much before things’ll start getting better.

    All these proposals are like trying to fight a forest fire with a squirt gun.