If Council is pre-zoning Villages to streamline market housing, it should also require staff to show how social, co-op, or non-market housing can realistically be delivered in each Village.
The thing I find most amazing about this is that in 2022, every housing economist told Canadians house prices were surging and so insanely high
Because we’re just not building enough homes
Supply didn’t increase dramatically and yet prices are down 43%
Average asking rents. But overall rents are still up, as turnover continues to replace existing rent-controlled affordable tenancies with new market-rate tenancies. And there are still virtually no available apartments that are affordable to the bottom HALF of earners.
@marissenmark@kareemformayor Can he answer the questions we’ve been posing about his platform and polices? No. He can run paid ads to rename an airport.. cool. Nice to see his priorities are in order. Ken Sim 2.0.