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Originally Posted by bartlebooth
There are some examples of missing middle housing being added to older neighbourhoods throughout the city. I live in one of them. As far as I can see however, the costs of this housing is insane (e.g. high 900k range to buy, $2800 for a one bedroom to rent, $3200 for a two bedroom to rent, etc...). Prices like this will send 99% of the population to suburban Ottawa.
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Originally Posted by phil235
That's part of it, but I'd also include 3-4 storey walk-up apartments in established neighbourhoods. There's lots of demand for those.
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The cost of land makes anything affordable difficult to develop. Some of this is because land is valued assuming much higher density and development charges and barriers. If you expand Ford's bill the next step and you could put 3-4 story walk ups anywhere you wanted perhaps they could come down in price. Residents would fight that tooth and nail but I bet lots of people would live in one near a good school in Nepean or Beacon Hill.
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