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[–] Sundial@lemm.ee 16 points 3 months ago (3 children)

representing the size of about 2,000 hockey rinks

HAH, love the Canadian version of America's "measuring in terms of football fields".

The article doesn't say where they are grabbing the land from? Federal parks? Also, it's going to be years before we see any kind of effect from this decision. Assuming the conservatives don't just rip this up the second they get into government.

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The Conservatives will expand on this. They love the idea of selling off public land to their developer friends. This is one of the many areas where they actually agree with the Liberals (when they're not just being intentionally obstructionist).

The problem is that it won't do any good. We have the space. What we need is better zoning, and for the available supply of housing to not all immediately end up in the hands of "investors".

So long as housing is an investment, there must, by necessity, be a housing crisis. Without scarcity, the investments will not appreciate in value. In other words, without scarcity, they're not investments.

[–] Sundial@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

Yeah I think you may be right.

[–] Nogami@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

And any government that destroys home value will be gone because every existing homeowner will vote them out to preserve their value.

It’s a total impossible, non-starter.

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 months ago

I've never considered how many people can live in one hockey rink before

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 months ago

Patriot analogies be like; as long as 150 rifles laid end to end