As rents soar, tenants organize local protests. But what's needed for a national housing movement? | CBC News

We need better development patterns. Many suburban and strip mall style developments end up costing more to maintain, service and repair than they bring in with taxes. Being able to survive without owning a car by walking, biking or transit would also help a lot. People really shrug away the costs of car ownership (and the costs of maintaining all that infrastructure and parking lots).

Hey, NDP.

I'm not sure how you're doing, hope all is well with you. I heard you were working on pharmacare or somesuch. That's cool, that's cool

You know, I was thinking, we need a bit more than that, you know? We have healthcare issues, environment issues, housing issues, cost-of-living issues. And it sounds like we would really benefit from some bold transformational political vision, here, you know? Someone to say we are going to do A,B,C,D to fix these things, you know, like in the old days, when Tommy Douglas was putting up concrete visions for government creating crown corporations to tackle specific problems?

And I think you might be the right party to bring stuff up? Maybe get the provincial NDPs to all to talk to each other, and coordinate with the national party a coherent strategy or something?

Something to inspire us?

I dunno, you're the pro, maybe I'm overstepping. Maybe pharmacare is as much as we can really do at this point.

Anyway, just checking in.

All the best,

Some guy.

Housing authorities just need to lower housing prices. The model already exists there's just a lot of money fighting it:

1. Build large 5-6 story buildings with dozens or hundreds of units in areas where prices are too high. These buildings should be mixed use on the first floor with no car parking.

2. Sell or rent them at well below market rates to people that currently do not own homes anywhere under the condition they only sell under those conditions as well

3. Watch the market prices fall.

There's currently enough housing in most places there just needs to be a needle applying downward pressure.

I think we have too many people here in Canada who think any kind of regulation infringes on freedom as well as magically makes it so the free market doesn’t make everything cheap for everyone so we probably won’t get this any time soon.

Thank god I don’t rent anymore.

what's needed for a national housing movement

Houses. All across the nation. Freely available to those who need them.

Data from the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) shows Canada has ramped up construction in recent years,

That looks like a good start on the surface, but how many of those are 2000+ sq foot McMansions, versus more affordable <1000sq foot homes?

A government with balls....end of article.

What's needed for a national housing movement? The provinces giving up control of housing. Otherwise it will always be a provincial matter, requiring provincial movements.

Apparently, all that's need is a strong First Nations group that can blow past NIMBYism.

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/jericho-lands-development-concept-west-point-grey-vancouver-june-2023

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/senakw-squamish-first-nation-vancouver-rental-housing-development