I do get to talk to them and my MLA regularly as I’m on the board of a local business association which they or their representative attends. They will do on about a bunch of useless political empty talking points. Giving them any direction, they’ll thank you for your thoughts and say they’ll be taken into great consideration.
it doesn’t feel like any level of government is doing enough.
It doesn’t feel like they’re doing anything at all other then continually fucking over Canadians for the interests of the wealthy and their cronies.
While I still believe very strongly in voting, all the current parties feel corrupt and not in our best interest. Time for revolution.
And ban Single Family only zoning, and upzone
https://policyalternatives.ca/publications/commentary/upzoning-and-housing-affordability
Since Archive.is seems to be down today :(
We can’t keep bulldozing farm land and natural ecosystems to build tax payer subsidized, non eco friendly single family suburban homes anymore. Families can live and do live very comfortably in missing middle sub 6 story low rise duplexes, triplexes, townhomes, and multiplexes. All of which can be built up on existing property at the will and freedom of property owners. https://www.canadianarchitect.com/editorial-finding-the-missing-middle/
Because its a limitation of personal property rights and freedom. Why can’t I as a property owner turn my single family home into a ground level cafe/bakery with 4 units above if I have the capital? It’s a government overstep that limits our supply, artificially increasing demand and cost, and gets in the way of entrepreneurship. Having relative freedom over property usage was only something recently taken away in the last 80 or so years due to racist white flight to the suburbs.
While populations hasn’t tripled in the last 5 or so years, we are experiencing growth pains that investors and speculators are taking advantage of limited supply, and relying on the fact we will have limited supply for some time to come as long as the zoning stays as the status quo.
It’s primarily the municipalities as this is a supply and demand issue, they have the power to end single family exclusionary zoning, incentivize and fast-track new developments to start gently densifying into missing middle townhouses and multiplexes, but don’t because they worry about losing the vote from older generation NIMBY’S. So a lot of cities and towns are waiting for the province or feds to do that for them so they don’t have to take the blame.
What the province and feds can work on the cities really can’t is funding more public housing/co-op’s which is also desperately needed. But as soon as we start creating more supply the cost and demand will go down.
They do with Play Services “Play Protect” feature