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The Canadian government, under pressure over the rising cost of housing, could consider capping foreign student visas, which have rocketed in recent years, new Housing Minister Sean Fraser said on Monday.
Well obviously, we should build more houses. Everybody supports that. We’ll start building as soon as we find a good spot to build them. The only restrictions are:
development can’t encroach on nature or cause any deforestation, loss of wetlands, or animal habitat
you can’t encroach on farmland, we need to preserve that
any building over 40 years old is historic and can’t be torn down or altered
you can’t change the “character” of any existing neighborhood
you can’t block the views of any existing houses
there needs to be at least three parking spots provided for each new unit of housing
Sure, still lots of places. The federal and provincial governments can start by using some of those special government powers to open up those spots and pay for the building of hundreds of thousands of social housing units with rent control they owe us since they stopped building them thirty years ago instead of the developer get rich scheme we’ve had here for generations now.
How about you build more houses, assholes.
Well obviously, we should build more houses. Everybody supports that. We’ll start building as soon as we find a good spot to build them. The only restrictions are:
In other words NIMBY gunna NIMBY
Sure, still lots of places. The federal and provincial governments can start by using some of those special government powers to open up those spots and pay for the building of hundreds of thousands of social housing units with rent control they owe us since they stopped building them thirty years ago instead of the developer get rich scheme we’ve had here for generations now.