Tag: housing
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Housing demand isn’t fake
Why do people assume that demand for expensive apartments is fraudulent? If you follow housing news in Canada at all, you’re surely familiar with two competing ideas for what’s to blame for the housing crisis. The first is what can be called the market thesis, which holds that housing is expensive because the supply of…
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Who should pay for growth?
Municipalities charge developers money per home they build through DCC’s, and use that money to build critical infrastructure. Sounds smart, right?
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Victoria residents asked to go big on housing and transit; staff went small
Victoria’s OCP draft is out, and while it goes far, it doesn’t deal with a whole host of issues in getting housing built.