Canada’s political and media class has spent years chasing convenient villains to blame for the housing crisis, pointing the finger at foreign buyers, immigrants, supply shortages, zoning rules, or an overheated market.

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[–] ODGreen@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Even worse.

To be serious, the new Alto high speed rail line will go through Peterborough. Could be that it helps spur some development there.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

The problem with Peterborough is kicking the people out to start building apartments and have no low density housing in the city.

That’s why it must be in an undeveloped place.

[–] ODGreen@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I really don't see why we can't infill Toronto and Ottawa. Make single-family home builds illegal, only triplexes or bigger. Kill off parking minimums. Expropriate demolition-by-neglect sites and abandoned commercial property. Same thing with Peterborough if we want that built up. Building a metropolis from scratch usually ends up awful anyway, see Brasilia as a notorious example (in James C Scott's Seeing Like a State.

[–] psvrh@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago

As someone who lives in Peterborough, and has to look at the burned-out husk of the Baskin Robbins Ice Cream building every day and wonders "Why the hell isn't this housing?", I can agree with all of this.

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