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.
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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.
Yeah, seems like the poster didn’t read the actual article, either
That’s a project from Habitat for Humanity.
Vocalizing support for someone else’s project is a far cry from starting your own projects.
Maybe she is doing something, I don’t know, but the example you gave isn’t a good one.