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Re:Canada to ban foreigners from buying homes by definitelyhuman on Thursday April 07, 2022 @05:57PM (#30950821)
Waterloo region is building density, despite complaints (1), because there’s no supply. People claim to want all of: affordable housing, no sprawl, no community impact - but that’s not possible. Glad they prioritized units, although a lot are still condos which are not quite ‘affordable’, but the supply will help

(1) https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/belmont-vi...

Re:Canada to ban foreigners from buying homes by brimwats on Saturday April 09, 2022 @08:09PM (#30973341)
BC seems to be doing similarly, with the NDP playing hardball and threatening transit and other concessions to holdout municipalities