Ontario government's Greenbelt land swap influenced by well-connected developers, AG finds
Developers could see an $8B increase to value of land now open for housing development, report finds
The very obvious solution to our housing crisis, the one almost literally every other country on earth would do, is to upzone our cities contained in the greenbelt. To say those cities are full and swap out greenbelt land is criminally negligent. Sprawl will cost us not only in upkeep but in the environmental devastation.
Exactly. The solution to the housing problem is not sprawling detached homes, plazas, and traffic jams for as long as the eye can see. Rather than make the hard choices and enforcing density in the GTA, he gave a bunch of land to his buddy big developers. But since this is Ontario and the political opposition is weak I'm sure next to nothing will come of this.
Yes, of course. The solution to the housing crisis is to just make more land in the middle of nowhere available for development so that the public has to pay for more extensions of electrical, water, sewage systems, and road networks for new land that produce absolutely nothing and make shitty neighbourhoods.
It's no surprise that the Greenbelt was influenced by the already rich. It was probably their idea as an easy way to get even richer, rather than actually make tangible improvements to the housing crisis, and instead redirect tax dollars into inflating their wallets.
Daily reminder, fuck Doug Ford and fuck Justin Trudeau, fuck all politicians actually