Drive down the costs of home building, double down on our commitment to community housing, end homelessness, and treat housing as a home first and an investment second.
Housing policies were a good thrust of your candidacy for ON Liberal leader. Choosing you as new Federal Housing Minister was wise since you had already studied the topic in depth. Knowing a possible short term of the mandate, you have thrown yourself in with both feet and running strong!
There are some very practical and realistic examples from around the world that address housing as a basic human need, which we should be looking to. Governments, at all levels, need to be involved, with strategies that don't require one to be "warehoused" and allow one to carry the assistance to wherever one prefers.
On building affordable housing, why can't we see more of the Vienna model where mixed income buildings are owned by the public, non-profit provider and similar to a coop model the market rents subsidize those who need it within the same building?
On income, this part of the affordability question always seems to get ignored, the real value of the minimum wage has deteriorated over time, as housing costs have far outpaced CPI inflation. Meanwhile social assistance rates in many provinces are well below what they were in the early 1990s, and far below what is necessary even to afford a rooming house unit.
Minimum wage from Seattle to San Fran to Australia is well above Canadian norms. We need to push Minimum wage north of $20 per hour, tighten the labour supply, and boost disability and social assistance payments to something more realistic.
Hi, Nate. As it pertains to housing, housing the homeless should be Priority 1. Followed by making rent more affordable for all. If you can do that, man, you'll be a legend.
Reading about the effect of tariffs on home-building (and the Canadian economy in general) only buttresses my assertion that liberating housing by drastically loosening zoning and other planning restrictions, abolishing DCs and other taxes on home-building and radically tightening approval TLs is as, if not more important, than knocking down internal trade barriers.
I don’t see many people making this connection yet but this really is a time for radical action on housing policy.
Please ask Ontario MPP Mary-Margaret Mcmahon to come on Substack. The billionaire controlled social media sites are propaganda machines that fuel the rich. I want to be informed but will no longer participate in those platforms.
"Melanie Steele, Niagara Region’s associate director of reporting and analysis, said to receive funding, municipalities with a population of more than 300,000 must agree to a three-year freeze on development charges. Steele said the freeze would have a $69.3-million impact on the region’s revenues and add 4.3 per cent annually to the property tax levy."
Housing policies were a good thrust of your candidacy for ON Liberal leader. Choosing you as new Federal Housing Minister was wise since you had already studied the topic in depth. Knowing a possible short term of the mandate, you have thrown yourself in with both feet and running strong!
Peace/Minobimaadizi (Ojibwe). Let's get Everyone/Anishnabe (Ojibwe) in Canada Home/ Endaayaan (Ojibwe). We all belong.
There are some very practical and realistic examples from around the world that address housing as a basic human need, which we should be looking to. Governments, at all levels, need to be involved, with strategies that don't require one to be "warehoused" and allow one to carry the assistance to wherever one prefers.
On building affordable housing, why can't we see more of the Vienna model where mixed income buildings are owned by the public, non-profit provider and similar to a coop model the market rents subsidize those who need it within the same building?
On income, this part of the affordability question always seems to get ignored, the real value of the minimum wage has deteriorated over time, as housing costs have far outpaced CPI inflation. Meanwhile social assistance rates in many provinces are well below what they were in the early 1990s, and far below what is necessary even to afford a rooming house unit.
Minimum wage from Seattle to San Fran to Australia is well above Canadian norms. We need to push Minimum wage north of $20 per hour, tighten the labour supply, and boost disability and social assistance payments to something more realistic.
How Donald Trump will seize CANADA .
Hi, Nate. As it pertains to housing, housing the homeless should be Priority 1. Followed by making rent more affordable for all. If you can do that, man, you'll be a legend.
Reading about the effect of tariffs on home-building (and the Canadian economy in general) only buttresses my assertion that liberating housing by drastically loosening zoning and other planning restrictions, abolishing DCs and other taxes on home-building and radically tightening approval TLs is as, if not more important, than knocking down internal trade barriers.
I don’t see many people making this connection yet but this really is a time for radical action on housing policy.
Please ask Ontario MPP Mary-Margaret Mcmahon to come on Substack. The billionaire controlled social media sites are propaganda machines that fuel the rich. I want to be informed but will no longer participate in those platforms.
Is there truth to what GNCC has published.
"Melanie Steele, Niagara Region’s associate director of reporting and analysis, said to receive funding, municipalities with a population of more than 300,000 must agree to a three-year freeze on development charges. Steele said the freeze would have a $69.3-million impact on the region’s revenues and add 4.3 per cent annually to the property tax levy."
If not true, please explain.
https://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/news/council/niagara-councillors-mock-useless-federal-infrastructure-program/article_929ea51a-c922-5aa0-b979-861da80a5c02.html?omnisendContactID=65d8a66f1d9979af351df82b&utm_campaign=campaign%3A+Daily-Update-February-07-2025+%2867a62409c62b8563590de206%29&utm_medium=email&utm_source=omnisend