Creig Lamb

The Roy Donk of Canadian innovation policy. Thought follower. Former Van Buren Boy. Co-director @Shift_Insights. Organize with @ACES_thatsus.

[Creig Lamb @creiglamb]

1/ Canada is in a housing crisis. We know we need to fix it fast, but there are a LOT of proposals floating around on how to do it.

Here is my incomplete 🧵 on what people are saying will help 'solve Canada's housing crisis'. This is my attempt to help make sense of it all.

[Creig Lamb @creiglamb]

@Kamdooh @ZoSpicyDubs @FIBA @KingJames @usabasketball @Lakers dude he SAVED the US against Serbia. They wouldn't be in the gold medal match without Curry.

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@CatImcat @Gh0stLA1 @IDF racist pig

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@ValerieCarolan2 @Gross_Prophets @Gh0stLA1 @IDF how many dead kids have you seen?

[Creig Lamb @creiglamb]

@Gross_Prophets @Puffindor @Gh0stLA1 @IDF they’re trying to show the world what is happening to them. it’s all they have. you and i have never experienced that kind of powerlessness. maybe we should focus on the monsters that are killing the babies not how people react in situations of extreme trauma.

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@helenezonana @Gh0stLA1 @IDF most ridiculous logic. you’re blaming the victims. israel is killing babies.

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@DelishGenStore @chrisannad why should one never sell crack pipes?

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@JoshMatlow then do it, it’s literally your job.

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@kyleg_89 my dude, hate him all you want. but the neanderthal reference to an Aboriginal Australian is very racist. You should delete.

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@keen_kiki @kyleg_89 calling an Aboriginal Australian a caveman is very racist.

[Creig Lamb @creiglamb]

@EricDLombardi it’s a garbage strategy and has led to really trash outcomes like our housing crisis, environmental degradation, stagnant incomes

[Creig Lamb @creiglamb]

@EricDLombardi i’ve spent most of my career trying to figure out why this is… best explanation is that we have figured out how to be profitable without innovation… resource extraction, treating housing as an asset, suppliers to us companies etc.

[Creig Lamb @creiglamb]

@EricDLombardi there’s also the issue that we rely entirely on the private sector to finance housing. feds gave up their role in building social housing in the 80s. we need to get back to the public sector building non market housing. private developers will always be profit driven.

[Jennifer Keesmaat @jen_keesmaat]

59 affordable housing units - the modules for which have been in storage at a cost of $70,000 a month for the past two years (cost to taxpayers) - held ransom by a wealthy ratepayers group who did not feel that the affordable housing was for the 'right' type of people.

Terrible - watch the clip below, they don't even hide this abhorrent position!

Why do we give these outliers with big bags of cash in their hands so much power in the planning process?

You tell me this isn't a deeply broken system, literally resulting in our neighbours out on the street.

Easy fix for someone with a bit of political power and political will: eliminate the right to appeal affordable housing.

This will 1) reduce the risk of rising costs for affordable housing developments, which is a crazy disincentive to going into this field, 2) further incentivize existing developers to tackle affordable housing, given the hassle and cost and heartache of appeals will vanish.

I guarantee that eliminating the right to appeal affordable housing will result in more affordable housing that gets built more quickly. I guarantee it, because I am doing it.

[Creig Lamb @creiglamb]

@Focalocity @JoshMatlow 22, 000 people have been murdered. genocide is being committed. that’s what we are protesting.

[Gil Meslin @g_meslin]

467 and 469 Spadina Road.
Formerly 17 affordable and mid-range two-bedroom apartments.
Vacated in 2006.
Neighbours objected to a 2013 proposal to renovate the interior to accommodate 31 units - concerns included the proposed tenure of the units (rental).
Still boarded up in 2023.

[Creig Lamb @creiglamb]

putting blocks down and picking them up. that's the job of the city.

[Westelaken.band @WestelakenB]

Hello please read through this thread and especially the call to action at the end. Evicting encampments as winter sets in without any reasonable and humane alternative is violent and lethal. We should be ashamed of our representatives and hold them to account.

[A.C.E.S. @ACES_thatsus]

Hello. On Saturday, November 24, 2023, from roughly 9:30 am to 11:30 pm, the City of Toronto moved forward with a plan to evict residents from the encampment in the yard at the Church of St. Stephen-in-the-Fields. The day was long and brutal. We have some thoughts. 🧵

[Creig Lamb @creiglamb]

@Meg_BunchONmbrs @MayorOliviaChow lol what do you think neo liberalism is? i like you. you’re fun and confusing.

[Creig Lamb @creiglamb]

nice work @MayorOliviaChow in turning a church and last refuge into a monument of hostile architecture. progressive.

[Creig Lamb @creiglamb]

@Meg_BunchONmbrs @MayorOliviaChow I'm sorry but the issues you see in my post are the result of decades of Neo liberal, capitalist policies.