Toronto is facing one of the worse housing crisis in the Western World.
But the city council just refused to allow sixplexes city-wide.
Why ? “Muh neighborhood character” “Muh parking”
The deal was city-wide reform, not reform in parts of the city where 6plexes are largely a reality. The Toronto Council just screwed hard young people, renters and new buyers.
The City Council also signed the Greenbelt’s death warrant. If you can not build up, you gotta build out.
Fucking hell…
Message to Carney: Until Toronto tries to welcome new people, stop delivering visas to people coming to Toronto. Shut it down !! Canada’s housing politics have convinced some Canadian cities can’t handle population growth.
While I agree that we should allow more six plexes and multi plexes in general, the entire housing problem is in reality a transportation problem, not a housing one.
If we built reliable, 24/7, two way trains out to Barrie / Peterborough / Guelph, and those cities had streetcar networks within them, then we would have an exponential amount more space to work with, and density would naturally follow the train lines as people try to live close to them.
It is problematic that our “solution” to the housing crisis is to tear down reasonably sized single family homes and replace them with cramped shoe boxes sized condos and apartments. Really rushing to all be miserable living in Tokyo and Manhattan rather than trying to build out more of the rather ideal streetcar suburbs.