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Originally Posted by bcedhk
The province's SSMUH plan is putting lipstick on a pig. The amount of resource (staff time, money spent on 'consultants' to provide the guidelines and marketing) probably could have been better spent to focus on 1 or 2 provincial lands and construct a high rise tower.
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This isn't an OR problem, this is an AND problem. We have to do both (and we have to do all the other options too including more social housing for example). As the video notes we're short 5.8m houses for 2030 (right now we have about 15m houses in Canada) and in 2023 Canada built 240,000 new units. Back of napkin math says we need to increase the number of houses we build by 300% to 1m a year.
As might seem obvious it'd be impossible to increase our rate of construction by that much right away (or even over a few years time) but at least we should make it easier to close the gap which includes making it possible to build all kinds of housing - not just concrete high rises but cheaper wood structure buildings (concrete costs a lot more to build - I've heard 20-30% more).
In addition, high rises don't serve the biggest gap in the market which is family sized housing (3 bedroom, 1000-1500sf units).
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Originally Posted by bcedhk
I'm anticipating a lot of cookie cutter EI builder fourplex (cctv monitor in the kitchen, veiny fake marble tiles, glass stair railing homes, etc) that will go for 1.3 to 1.5) million each in 2 years time.
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So basically like things are today? I hate those homes but I'll take just having more homes over saying they have to be nice homes right now.