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Many large city centers in Europe already restrict or outright ban commuter cars.
I was speaking more as a solution for American cities. :)
Yes. So, this is tried and known to work.
Canadians Unable to Afford Safe Housing Are Turning to Medically-Assisted Death
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Re: Canadians Unable to Afford Safe Housing Are Turning to Medically-Assisted Death
#142Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’m not attacking you, your heart is in the right place, but your comment illustrates the problem. Housing absolutely should be a profit center. Home and multifamily builders should be unleashed to build as much housing as they can. Let them be greedy; let them get rich. It’ll make housing more affordable for everyone. High housing costs aren’t a failure of the free market - they’re a failure of central planning at e…
The problem with encouraging builders to go hard with few restrictions is you end up with a low-density urban sprawl that introduces a ton of its own issues. You end up with massively long commutes and a ton of infrastructure that now needs to be maintained, and none of that cost falls on the builder so they happily build fields of new homes miles away from work places or services.
The vision of nice urban high density housing is a myth aside from very few exceptions that also happen to be quite expensive. Most people would want to escape that if their finances allow it. Pollution, noise, too much proximity to others are factors that makes this just plainly not attractive. Proximity to the work place is nice, but not the only factor that needs to be considered. This is primarily a problem of transport infrastructure.
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>At least this is what I heard in Econ 101 Yeah, and you probably also learned a laundry list of caveats which lead to the principle you're describing being non-applicable. Real estate is not a fully commodifiable good because it is non-fungible. A house in the middle of a city is not the same thing as a house 2 hours out of the city core. There is a limited amount of under-developed land to repurpose, and a limited…
Why does a giant condo building have to be high-end? Wouldn't that be the most efficient way to house people even if they weren't focused on profit?
>Why does a giant condo building have to be high-end?
Because the margins are higher and you can't put up infinite towers.
>if they weren't focused on profit
They are.
Re: Canadians Unable to Afford Safe Housing Are Turning to Medically-Assisted Death
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It will end in either a correction of the price of housing, or a correction on the currency those houses are priced in to bring it back in line with the rest of the world, because from my understanding the economics when adjusted for wages in Canada is the number that is way out of whack. Place your bets!
Or feudalism. No guarantee that the majority of the population will be able to afford houses at all; in many societies, you have a small landowning class (< 10% of the population) that owns literally all the land, and then a large number of serfs who must work for survival.
People can still vote in both the US and Canada, and if the supermajority couldn't afford homes the taxes on homeowners could go much higher.
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#145Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've lived in Canada and abroad; I've vacationed a few times in the US so I'm amused my commentary is US-centric. The US and Canadian governments are far, far better in terms of hiding corruption than a lot of other ones. But corruption still exists. There's way more cynicism out there than my commentary. And it would be close to the truth of things. Edit: you probably haven't heard about the bodies they recently exh…
> you probably haven't heard about the bodies they recently exhumed of native school children that the government poisoned You have invented that story out of whole cloth. You can not provide any story of “recently exhumed, poisoned, Canadian, native children.”
It's a real story, but there's a ton of misinformation around it (including, probably, in his comment).
The real explanation is something closer to the kids dying of the Spanish Flu and they were buried by the school because they were orphans. (And no, I won't look up a source; this is completely tangential to the subject of this story and I'm sure some debunkers took it on if you care)
Re: Canadians Unable to Afford Safe Housing Are Turning to Medically-Assisted Death
#146Earlier quoted context omitted.
> you probably haven't heard about the bodies they recently exhumed of native school children that the government poisoned You have invented that story out of whole cloth. You can not provide any story of “recently exhumed, poisoned, Canadian, native children.”
It's a real story, but there's a ton of misinformation around it (including, probably, in his comment). The real explanation is something closer to the kids dying of the Spanish Flu and they were buried by the school because they were orphans. (And no, I won't look up a source; this is completely tangential to the subject of this story and I'm sure some debunkers took it on if you care)
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/28/world/canada/kamloops-mas...
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/canada-residential-schools-unma...
https://www.cbc.ca/news2/interactives/children-of-the-poison...
>During the 1960s and early ‘70s, the chemical plant at the Reed Paper mill in Dryden, Ont., which is upstream of Grassy Narrows, dumped 9,000 kilograms of mercury into the English-Wabigoon River. The fish in the river were full of poison, and the people from Grassy Narrows, who relied on the fish as a staple in their diet, were full of it, too.
>Once ingested, mercury never goes away. It “bioaccumulates,” meaning it passes from one generation to the next, from mother to child, through the placenta.
And so on....
This sort of thing is covered in University-level courses in Canadian History. But nevermind that - it's just "misinformation" that I have invented "out of whole cloth."
Native schools and residencies were built downstream rivers from factories that produced toxic chemicals and dumped them into said rivers. Again, it's not new knowledge, it's just labeled as misinformation because people are ignorant and they would rather not know. This subject is directly covered in the aforementioned coursework.
How gullible you want to be is a choice you have to make.
Re: Canadians Unable to Afford Safe Housing Are Turning to Medically-Assisted Death
#147Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a real story, but there's a ton of misinformation around it (including, probably, in his comment). The real explanation is something closer to the kids dying of the Spanish Flu and they were buried by the school because they were orphans. (And no, I won't look up a source; this is completely tangential to the subject of this story and I'm sure some debunkers took it on if you care)
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/28/world/canada/kamloops-mas... https://www.cbsnews.com/news/canada-residential-schools-unma... https://www.cbc.ca/news2/interactives/children-of-the-poison... >During the 1960s and early ‘70s, the chemical plant at the Reed Paper mill in Dryden, Ont., which is upstream of Grassy Narrows, dumped 9,000 kilograms of mercury into the English-Wabigoon River. The fish in the river were full…
> Some of those found had succumbed to disease, Yellowhorn said, citing one cemetery where it became apparent many children perished from the Spanish flu a little over a century ago. [0]
[0] https://nypost.com/2022/05/27/kamloops-mass-grave-debunked-b...
Re: Canadians Unable to Afford Safe Housing Are Turning to Medically-Assisted Death
#148Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think it started with mostly foreigners buying up property, not to live in but as investment to keep the value of their money, like using housing as an alternate currency to dollars
I have been venturing to Vancover BC for the better part of the last 30 years. In that time, there were waves of hippies selling in Kits and moving to the Okanagan, etc. Prices went up. What has happened in the last 15+ years is a noticable vacancy when you look at housing as you walk around. An influx of foreing money has been buying up and keeping properties vacant. This is happening all up and down the west coast.…
But if we were able to build to keep up with demand, in theory the price would not increase so sharply...
Re: Canadians Unable to Afford Safe Housing Are Turning to Medically-Assisted Death
#149Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a real story, but there's a ton of misinformation around it (including, probably, in his comment). The real explanation is something closer to the kids dying of the Spanish Flu and they were buried by the school because they were orphans. (And no, I won't look up a source; this is completely tangential to the subject of this story and I'm sure some debunkers took it on if you care)
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/28/world/canada/kamloops-mas... https://www.cbsnews.com/news/canada-residential-schools-unma... https://www.cbc.ca/news2/interactives/children-of-the-poison... >During the 1960s and early ‘70s, the chemical plant at the Reed Paper mill in Dryden, Ont., which is upstream of Grassy Narrows, dumped 9,000 kilograms of mercury into the English-Wabigoon River. The fish in the river were full…
Yes, the mercury dumping by a corporation is the whole cloth from which you wove your story about the government running around deliberately poisoning the little native children. By twisting culpability, you created misinformation. Just as you do with the Kamloops story: debunked by the Chief for Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc, it is not a mass grave and bodies have not been found; the media invented the narrative you now provide as “proof.”
You are abusing history, making claims and stories that are loosely based on history but are not actually real history. you, my friend, are the gullible one.
https://mobile.twitter.com/AngelaSterritt/status/14008766918...