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Housing alone is essential just as a place to live. But then there would also be need for more roads, better public transport, more schools, more hospitals. Population congestion is going to increase and quality of life is going to decrease over the next decade even if all this were to start now.
My municipality: There's been a large increase in the local population? Better spend millions to subsidize a luxury condominium and make school and hospital cuts.
Convert churches and empty office buildings into affordable housing. Break up the REIT monopoly in the rental market. Make it really difficult to own more than one home. Crack down on foreign investment until the market stabilizes.
Or we can blame immigrants.
Nobody's blaming immigrants.
There have been a fair number of people and institutions (e.g. National Bank) saying that our infrastructure isn't keeping up with population growth.
Until we get our health system, housing, and schools sorted out, we should limit immigration to people who can solve those problems.
I disagree, our problems are mostly because of gross governmental mismanagement, that is unlikely to change whether we bring in more immigrants or not.
We need a way to hold government leaders in critical sectors accountable for their failings
Government doesn't need to fix the problem though. They just need to do enough to get reelected.
Which you can do by attacking transgendered students in 2023 because of this one crazy trick people are calling fascism
Gotcha, we're going to punish undesirable immigrants.
We will need to drastically change our zoning rules very soon to keep up. Most sane countries allow all land use other than industrial and agricultural inside cities, and they’re better for it.
You mean going to continue to decline...