The fact is, big developers love housing restrictions. Here in Vancouver, they buy up strips of land along arterial roads and then lobby the city council to approve mega towers along them. If you were allowed to build medium density everywhere, big developers would lose control. NIMBYs and big developers are often on the same side, and they often support the same conservative pro-business city parties.
We’ll never see affordable housing without broad changes to zoning, less community obstruction, and more public investment in non-market housing.
just ban Airbnb for long rentals and force corps to not own homes for the purpose of renting them out.
OMG, is it so difficult?
From their perspective, there must be a lengthier, more expensive solution that’ll still give money to lobbyists and corporations.
Simple solutions just don’t work.
I am 100% for banning Airbnb but I don’t understand why you think this is the simple solution when the problem is that there aren’t enough homes.
Maybe not in Nova Scotia but in Ontario, Quebec and BC there is almost enough already built. It just sits empty
That is not true. Vacancy is pretty much zero in all the major Canadian cities. There is a vacancy tax in BC where they actually measure vacancy and it is extremely low.
