While these things are great they’re still missing the elephant in the room: NIMBYs. Homeowners as a voting bloc are the biggest obstacle to zoning reform in municipalities. People simply don’t want to open the door to an explosion of home construction in their city because it will cause their property values to fall.
We have created a system where regular people’s wealth is dependent on blocking the growth of housing. At the same time, the government has elected to grow the economy through immigration, accelerating the housing crisis (while driving property values through the roof). This has made homeowners rich off the hard work of immigrants. It is the most illiberal thing the Liberal party has ever done.
NIMBYs are the best argument for authoritarianism I know. A fundamentally broken group of people. Literally just wish the government would ignore them.
Land Value Tax would fix this.
The immigrants would disagree.
Have you talked to them? I have. Lots of them are disillusioned with Canada. They want to get a degree here and then move to the US.
Lol, then they’ll find out it’s the same shit but worse. Unless they work in tech, I guess. I guarantee virtually none of them are asking to be forcibly kept out - don’t paint that as a benevolent position.
We do need to build more houses, though, and let values chill the hell out (you caught this before I could ninja edit that in).
