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Originally Posted by J.OT13
I've never seen a Mayor being blamed for high home prices. If anything, home owners ( 66.6% home ownership rate in Ottawa) often use loss of home value as an argument against development.
Source? I'm sure they didn't just say that point blank. McKenney generally has a decent record of voting for development within existing zoning, and sometimes even over. |
Note: As it stands none of the other two frontrunners are any better, as they both lack any direct policy about housing. With one having a history of promoting sprawl.
There is the source,
https://youtu.be/LYxjYV7_FII?t=2947, to paraphrase Ottawa is building enough housing as per the census data, as homes outpace households, which is based around a bad understanding of the census data.
https://mikepmoffatt.medium.com/debu...t-2ae48fb44e3e
They then go into a rant about 50 driveway and how it doesn't match their idea of demand, ignoring of course that Ottawa isn't building enough to meet demand for any type of unit.
There was data available at that time of those statements showing Ottawa was underbuilding, McKenney ignored this, there is now even further data showing Ottawa is not only underbuilding but under planning to meet future demand.
https://twitter.com/MikePMoffatt/sta...55333624389632
So when you refer to McKenney just supporting what is already zoned, that isn't a good thing. Why? Because again I'll state to you, McKenney, and horizon club, assuming the current zoning is "Correct" is a bad assumption and puts the city on a path towards exurban sprawl. Something the constant losing cases at OLT/OMB have shown to be false, the fast-paced growth of the exurbs and that the above data backs up. Its also false that they readily support development of housing in the city.
P.S SFH in the urban core of a city don't need a buffer from anything
https://twitter.com/cmckenney/status...21540589981696