I am not a professional and I offer my independent thoughts.
I think we have crossed the "Rubicon" with the housing issue and the government, hell bent on a yet made public (as of now) secret politcal agenda, refuses to deal with the realities of the housing issue.
The utter and complete failure of the government to address the issue in any meaningful way the government and bureacrats instead uses "word salads" of cliched 10 second sound bytes for the evening news to promote the current secret agenda.
What needs to be done is not done and instead government keeps doing the same thing over and over again ever hoping for different results. Both the Government and the Bureaucracy cannot or will not think "out of the box" and they have collectively boxed themselves in a "no-win" situation.
Currently there is now close to 3,000 unsold condominiums on the the market, but in the real sense they are not livable, especially if one has children. Expensive warehousing, is what is being created, not communities, not livable accommodations, but dog kennel living.
Instead of government policies to encourage business to locate outside of the lower mainland or investments in rail communication within the province to promote this, the government (the NDP has doubled down on this) compels densification as it has become the great philosopher's stone to cure homelessness.
It isn't and it won't. Towers, towers, towers is the clarion call of government, but with towers, towers, towers will come social decay, massive congestion (subways do not reduce congestion I am afraid) and the spread of homelessness, and tent cities.
The governments false god of density is slowly destroying Vancouver, as well like a cancer, spreading to the lower mainland. For metro Vancouver both provincial and civic politcans have paved over paradise and turned it into a parking lot.
What disturbs me is how the mainstream media has "rolled over" on this issue, not just the lack of any real progress on housing, but fact checking the government. I guess they all got FIFA tickets.
I am not a professional and I offer my independent thoughts.
I think we have crossed the "Rubicon" with the housing issue and the government, hell bent on a yet made public (as of now) secret politcal agenda, refuses to deal with the realities of the housing issue.
The utter and complete failure of the government to address the issue in any meaningful way the government and bureacrats instead uses "word salads" of cliched 10 second sound bytes for the evening news to promote the current secret agenda.
What needs to be done is not done and instead government keeps doing the same thing over and over again ever hoping for different results. Both the Government and the Bureaucracy cannot or will not think "out of the box" and they have collectively boxed themselves in a "no-win" situation.
Currently there is now close to 3,000 unsold condominiums on the the market, but in the real sense they are not livable, especially if one has children. Expensive warehousing, is what is being created, not communities, not livable accommodations, but dog kennel living.
Instead of government policies to encourage business to locate outside of the lower mainland or investments in rail communication within the province to promote this, the government (the NDP has doubled down on this) compels densification as it has become the great philosopher's stone to cure homelessness.
It isn't and it won't. Towers, towers, towers is the clarion call of government, but with towers, towers, towers will come social decay, massive congestion (subways do not reduce congestion I am afraid) and the spread of homelessness, and tent cities.
The governments false god of density is slowly destroying Vancouver, as well like a cancer, spreading to the lower mainland. For metro Vancouver both provincial and civic politcans have paved over paradise and turned it into a parking lot.
Hard to argue with your points. Thanks for reading.
What disturbs me is how the mainstream media has "rolled over" on this issue, not just the lack of any real progress on housing, but fact checking the government. I guess they all got FIFA tickets.