OTTAWA – At a time when skeptics are questioning Canada’s plan to ramp up immigration, a new report argues the country needs to welcome a lot more newcomers to counter-balance its aging de...
How about we sort out housing, first. We already have immigrants camping out on the streets for lack of shelter.
If that means bringing in experienced builders of houses, 4-plexes, and row-houses instead of tech and fast food workers, so be it. After they build their own housing, they can get started on housing for everyone else.
No time. Need the Tax revenue or we don’t climb out of CoViD.
If that means bringing in experienced builders of houses, 4-plexes, and row-houses
No. Towers built in parallel, so we can house 964 people on the space a 4-plex houses 10. We’re not gonna solve housing with shitty firetrap sprawl that also sprawls infrastructure and services – see DETROIT. Density gives us plausible demand for better transit options and 15-minute neighbourhoods, and drops demand for single-occupant car commutes. The age of the land hoarding is over.
What tax revenue? In the absence of housing, someone is going to be on the streets and that adds to the burden, not reduces it.
Yes, in an ideal world, we’d be building towers. But we’re not in an ideal world and can bring in a lot more “stick builders” a lot quicker than we can bring in tower builders.
As for taxes to climb out of COVID, try hitting up the corporations and the wealthy.
Whatever. I don’t have the answers and whoever does is either keeping quiet or doing nothing.
How about we sort out housing, first. We already have immigrants camping out on the streets for lack of shelter.
If that means bringing in experienced builders of houses, 4-plexes, and row-houses instead of tech and fast food workers, so be it. After they build their own housing, they can get started on housing for everyone else.
No time. Need the Tax revenue or we don’t climb out of CoViD.
No. Towers built in parallel, so we can house 964 people on the space a 4-plex houses 10. We’re not gonna solve housing with shitty firetrap sprawl that also sprawls infrastructure and services – see DETROIT. Density gives us plausible demand for better transit options and 15-minute neighbourhoods, and drops demand for single-occupant car commutes. The age of the land hoarding is over.
What tax revenue? In the absence of housing, someone is going to be on the streets and that adds to the burden, not reduces it.
Yes, in an ideal world, we’d be building towers. But we’re not in an ideal world and can bring in a lot more “stick builders” a lot quicker than we can bring in tower builders.
As for taxes to climb out of COVID, try hitting up the corporations and the wealthy.
Whatever. I don’t have the answers and whoever does is either keeping quiet or doing nothing.