From $2,600 to $775: how social housing is changing lives — and fighting climate change
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Affordable Vancouver housing helps tackle climate, housing crises | The Narwhal
B.C.’s non-profit housing sector is building affordable housing in Metro Vancouver that is helping to tackle the housing and climate crises
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Affordable Vancouver housing helps tackle climate, housing crises | The Narwhal
B.C.’s non-profit housing sector is building affordable housing in Metro Vancouver that is helping to tackle the housing and climate crises
The Narwhal (thenarwhal.ca)
Sure we flooded the economy with cheap labor to depress wages, and we are buying half of all mortgage bonds to balloon home values and further indebt Canadians with full recourse loans, but heres a small handful of rentals, so we do care!
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Sure we flooded the economy with cheap labor to depress wages, and we are buying half of all mortgage bonds to balloon home values and further indebt Canadians with full recourse loans, but heres a small handful of rentals, so we do care!
Honestly social housing fell out of fashion it used to be way more common but NIMBYs made them impossible to build, hell even now could you imagine trying to build them with the conservative crowd?
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Honestly social housing fell out of fashion it used to be way more common but NIMBYs made them impossible to build, hell even now could you imagine trying to build them with the conservative crowd?
Imagine trying to build them when a lot of land costs a million dollars and the house costs 300k; due to greenbelt that never used to exist, zoning that was a lot less regressive, and developer taxes were a tiny fraction what they are now.
We need to either lower the barriers or we need to stop the outrageous growth, as the missing middle podcast always says.
