Re:Home galleries are hiding in plain sight across Canada
by cyberax on Sunday April 20, 2025 @08:34PM
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> It is illegal to build such a neighborhood in 99% of Canada.
And that is good. It's making Canada liveable and keeps the prices from skyrocketing EVEN HIGHER.
Re:Home galleries are hiding in plain sight across Canada
by rfrey on Monday April 21, 2025 @12:30AM
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The claim that increasing housing supply would increase prices probably requires some argument.
Re:Home galleries are hiding in plain sight across Canada
by bluefirebrand on Monday April 21, 2025 @12:55AM
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As long as foreign wealth can continue to buy up properties as they are built, the actual housing supply doesn't really increase
That's a pretty large part of the problem
Re:Home galleries are hiding in plain sight across Canada
by shakna on Monday April 21, 2025 @01:31AM
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The actual housing supply also doesn't increase if you prevent building houses...
Re:Home galleries are hiding in plain sight across Canada
by cyberax on Monday April 21, 2025 @01:59AM
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It can increase more rapidly if you prevent increasing _density_.
Re:Home galleries are hiding in plain sight across Canada
by cyberax on Monday April 21, 2025 @01:48AM
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Preventing increase in _density_ leads to better outcomes long-term.
It sounds crazy, right? Supply/demand, and all of that.
But it's an example of one of the things in economics where the effects end up being different because of collective actions. As a result, no large growing city within the US within the last 30 years managed to lower down housing prices by increasing density. I checked that using the Census statistics database.
And no, Austin (TX) doesn't count. It decreased prices by decreasing the _population_.
Re:Home galleries are hiding in plain sight across Canada
by graeme on Monday April 21, 2025 @08:33PM
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Doesn't look like Austin's population decreased? They had a decline in net migration but a population increase.
Re:Home galleries are hiding in plain sight across Canada
by loeg on Monday April 21, 2025 @09:42PM
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Are we talking about the same Austin, TX?
https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/cities/22926/aust...
Its population continues to grow. Basically monotonically increasing.
It is illegal to build such a neighborhood in 99% of Canada. People love it here, people start families here, tourists visit, it's quite, lots of parks and shops.
And it's 3-4 as dense as most areas of most major cities. But we've made it illegal to build. For zoning, double stairway rules, minimum parking rules, setback rules, strict permitting requirements, and thousands of other things.