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Extremely proud to be named as one of the ten finalists in
@TheHubCanada
’s Hunter Prize for Public Policy.
My submission focused on twin Provincial-level reforms to zoning and taxation to boost housing affordability.
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Terrible idea.
I think many, if not most, people in their 20s-30s have had a bad experience renting from a mom and pop, but I’ve never had a better experience than renting from a purpose-built rental.
No renoviction, no illegal activity. Just transactional business.
Today, the biggest financial firms collectively own close to 400,000 homes—nearly 20 per cent of the rental units in Canada. In the mid 1990s that number was 0.
New Democrats will introduce a bill that will ban corporations from buying homes people can afford.
Corporations have
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Extremely funny opinion to have.
Never thought I’d see it.
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Private company shaking down the Canadian government for cheap labour. Unacceptable.
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In my opinion, running a red light and killing a baby is a criminal act. How could this at least not be criminal negligence.
@pwaldkirch
Any idea?
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Had an interesting discussion about the benefits and drawbacks, including risk of political backlash, of fourplex pre-zoning today.
This chart is still staggering.
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Had a quite disappointing conversation with a Kelowna councilor recently. They will not be named.
They believe that a vacancy rate being too high (5%) must be prevented, as it can lead to "distress for landlords", and that 3% gives tenants "lots of choice over where to live".
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“The issue is affordability not supply” gee I wonder what determines the market cost of rent.
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Mulroney was never “Canada’s Reagan”, and his work on the Montreal Protocol, Apartheid, and NAFTA are an enviable legacy for any Prime Minister.
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@GeorgistSteve
“The only good delivery is my delivery” is not quite bananas socialism, but pretty impressive on the “selfish jerk” scale.
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Happy to announce that we are soft-launching a Kelowna Strongtowns / YIMBY chapter tomorrow.
Strong Towns has the strongest branding and a decent message for say, 95% of use cases. I think it’s more than a good place to start.
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@carlatcole
@yhdistyminen
Sign directly opposite the Sojourner Truth, a federal housing project, in Detroit, Michigan. A riot was caused by white neighbors' attempt to prevent African American tenants from moving in.
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Very excited to be moving into my first owned condo (with a mortgage of course) in about a week. Cropped the address out. A 90s building, bit older than I am, pretty high strata (almost 500).
Pretty funny floor plan. Not as efficient as modern ones at all, but 1316 sq ft.
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@StatisticUrban
Unicameral parliamentary with PR is pretty close to unbeatable if the PR is done properly.
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Most “mom and pop” landlords are good people, of course, but the most risky spot for a tenant is to rent a basement from someone who doesn’t follow the rules.
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@bigseb31213
It’s also funny that Pittsburgh had great success with a moderate LVT tax shift, but instead are doubling down with higher taxes (IZ).
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@saeidh1991
I think they’re a good brand. Their insistence on the next zoning increment versus the correct zoning increment is their biggest flaw.
I generally like their focus on complete streets and efficient land use, but the movement is based on better small towns.
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Not even close to one of Bryan’s worst takes.
While you are talking to
@JohnRustad4BC
and
@BruceBanman
about their views on funding IVF, maybe ask them if they agree with this
@Conservative_BC
candidates views on what should happen when you change your party between elections!
@RobShaw_BC
@richardzussman
@JasJohalBC
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@DouglasTodd
Density by and of itself is not “oversupply”.
Vacancy rates matter, and Vancouver’s is low. Arguing that that means Vancouver should build less housing is absurd.
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@GeorgistSteve
“Increasing taxes on landholding is the same thing as increasing taxes on new development; I am a very smart landscape architect”
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“In the future you will have no air conditioning” is the exact kind of dead-endism degrowth that too many climate-friendly people cling to.
Heat pumps / ACs and a clean (extremely) cheap electrical grid is a positive message.
If you want to sell the public on decarbonization, you need to paint a much less bleak picture than this. We need a green abundance agenda, not dangerous internal temperatures!
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“Poor people shouldn’t have air conditioners so we can fight climate change” is the kind of idiotic opinion you couldn’t cook up in the lab. From an elected official, no less.
Work on a clean & cheap power grid instead of this Malthusian nonsense.
Air conditioners contribute 4% of global greenhouse gas emissions - double the entire aviation industry.
The organization formerly known as
@EnvHamilton
: use the
@cityofhamilton
Climate Change Reserve to give out free air conditioners...
Only in
#HamOnt
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"Tent encampments are a symptom of a dysfunctional housing market for low-income renters. Yet over the decades, cities have not only barred housing of last resort from being built; they’ve also squeezed development of housing targeted at even middle- and high-income renters."
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Part of the issue is that FPTP creates these Frankenstein parties of multiple coalitions.
Easy to see Freedom Conservative, Business Conservative, and Religious Conservative wings in CPBC.
BCNDP is a Labour, Liberal, Left-Libertarian (Progressive) winged party.
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Not good. A tramway is not a “war on cars” even though the Quebec tramway is incredibly flawed.
Comme premier ministre je n’investirai pas une cenne d’argent fédéral dans un projet de tramway à Québec.
Trudeau et le Bloc sont obsédés par la guerre à l’auto et ignorent les gens des banlieues et des régions.
Les conservateurs de gros bon sens continueront de respecter les
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Oldest trick in the book. Independently wealthy candidates promising to serve a community for free.
Will be penning a rebuttal. The idea that only the wealthy are gracious to serve is pervasive enough. I’d need to take my job part-time if on council.
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Pension plans have exactly one job. Large safe financial returns for their members. Using them to further any other cause is a breech of fiduciary duty, and frankly, dangerous. The public shouldn’t need to bail out irresponsibly-run pensions. People need their pension money!
Pension plans should build housing members can actually afford.
Toronto’s public sector pension funds need to take some direct responsibility for housing the next generation of public sector workers in our city at rents that they can afford.
#Opinion
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I didn’t know that factually inaccurate testimony was allowed in Parliament! Who knew.
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Really terrible news. Fleet electrification of buses is, no joke, probably the single best way to devastate a transit system with less frequency and much higher capital costs for equivalent bus range and operating hours.
basically if you’re an agency that serves a fairly hilly or cold area and uses articulated buses + trying to commit to sustainable practices, you’re cooked. battery buses, especially articulated ones, aren’t ready yet, ditto for hydrogen. the american bus market is in a bad place
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Would it surprise anyone that the author of this “chicken coop” piece lives in a highrise next door and has spent a lot of time complaining to the media about losing his view?
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@JeremiahDJohns
@kdrewproctor
We’re going to need the ham-fisted scene of Paul literally comparing himself to multiple Hitlers for people to get it.
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Literally, once again, demand-side stimulus in a housing shortage leading to higher prices and at best neutral affordability benefits. All while being aggressively regressive with benefits towards higher incomes.
It’s bad when it’s the LPC FHSA, and it’s bad as CPBC RR.
NEW -
@JohnRustad4BC
announces a plan to let British Columbians deduct up to $3,000 per month for mortgage and rent payments from their income tax, paying less taxes and potentially generating rebates. Cost: $3.5b. Calls it one of the most significant tax relief ever given.
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@Northerngold01
@killroytheloser
@KahlonRav
One. We have more per-capita fire deaths than they do.
In addition, we are the ones with crappy apartments with windows on just one side. It’s a lose-lose.
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There is no evidence that small Seattle-style apartments are more dangerous than other apartment buildings.
Zoning often restricts infill development to low-rise, 3 or 4-story construction.
These low rise single-stair Seattle projects add density to small sites & are illegal to build in most of the US. Building code needs to be updated to allow this type of fine-grained infill.🧵
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@clmarohn
@garcskrab
The incentives for a single Landlord are different than the incentives for the broader market. Any particular landlord withholding a unit to drive the market price is themselves losing more money.
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@carlatcole
@yhdistyminen
“Created by the Detroit Housing Commission (DHC) and United States Housing Authority (USHA), the proposed 200 units would alleviate housing shortages caused by the wartime climate of World War II.”
Sounds like YIMBYism to me.
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@RM_Transit
I hope X government does Y thing I agree with if they win an election <- a totally normal thing to say.
You said nothing wrong.
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Local investigative journalism doesn’t pay - small ROI and no guarantee of success. We are all poorer for it, in the scandals or spending issues that are never brought to light.
Daily Courier is near-dead, CHBC gone, and KelownaNow has one hard-news non-partisan reporter.
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Important thread from the first openly LGBT+ councillor (when elected) in Kelowna.
Half the QTs are a reminder of why it matters. Happy Pride, Loyal.
Pride Month is a time to renew our commitment to standing up for 2SLGBTQ+ people who are silenced and targeted. (1/9)
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Here in Kelowna we have a councillor who’s already “just asking questions” about plans for 15 minute cities, from staff, in meetings. So obviously ridiculous.
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They also stated that "I do not believe that increased volume of new housing builds leads to lower costs"
Not sure how to square the circle between those two comments, to be honest.
Bear in mind, with a vacancy rate of 1.3%, this discussion is purely academic for now.
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@when_to_fold_em
@besttrousers
You’re assuming that tariffs are the only way to do that. If we are picking poisons, industrial subsidies to key industries are better.
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Total complete disaster.
This is going to take decades to fix.
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@TOAdamVaughan
Your legacy of complete failure on housing, Mr “Protect Condo Values”, is one of the main reasons we are in this mess.
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Amplifying because this is still a horrendous decision on the merits. I told them in commission meetings, but the fact that fast-growing areas like Kelowna and Surrey are under-quota is simply valuing some citizens more than others. Should he +-.25%
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Downtown Victoria is so walkable that the A&Ws are built different.
It’s actually incredible how good the whole DT is.
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@pmcondon2
@michaelgeller
Do you actually care about ridership or only aesthetics? It’s impossible to argue Skytrain isn’t better for its users.
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