Franklin

Way ahead of you I’ve went there once in two years, can’t stand the place.

I wish riding a bike in my city was easier, it’s basically suicide with more steps, my municipal policy forces bikes to share the road with motorist and it’s 90% stroads.

The reasons I listed I believe are a big reason that it is so expensive. You can’t find a solution without first correctly identifying the problem.

I’m a bit of a loop here, I tried to look them up and I mostly got some corporate BS about them rebranding. When you have time are you able to enlighten me?

That was really strange for me because ranked choice voting would almost guarantee the NDP a lot more votes and power than it currently has.

I think our housing markets biggest problem is twofold outdated zoning laws that only allow for single-family homes to be built and carcentric infrastructure that requires huge roads and parking spaces that require enormous amounts of public funds to maintain.

It’s definitely true that we’re lagging behind other G7 nations and I don’t think our leadership is blameless just definitely not the only blame.

I’m skeptical we’d be in a better spot under different leadership but with climate change, war and late stage capitalism in full swing I won’t hold my breath.

Sorry for the depressing comment!

I don’t think it’s fair to lay current economic landscape squarely at Trudeau’s feet.

Everywhere is poorer, corporations have been taking an unfair share for a long time and it is only ramped up in recent years. The United States is in a similar spot

Breaking news oil company that lies at every opportunity wasn’t held accountable and choose to lie for bottom line.

I just had to read through the crtc governance on telecommunications providers do you mind pointing out which subsections in particular are protectionist?

I mean that’s the problem with corporations too except when they’re publicly traded you also have to contend with fiduciary obligation making sure they always design for the minimum viable product.

Look no further than our Telecom industry to see how that works out.

It really doesn’t seem like an available labor shortage.

From my observations in Newfoundland it’s a combination of the most profitable product being huge single family homes and outdated (and car-centric) zoning policy that makes it difficult to construct anything else even if it was profitable.

Our issue is there’s no incentive to construct affordable housing and because of years of lobbying by the automotive industry they have to be extremely low density to accommodate the large front lawns, driveways and streetside parking required for car centric living. All of this adds additional cost.

I think step one would be to fix our zoning policy and step two would be to incentivize construction of low margin high density housing. This isn’t to say that single family homes should go away just the they shouldn’t be the only option.