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Originally Posted by chowhou
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See previous answer. Faster approval processes (which ABC says they're on top of, but I'm not seeing), more labourers and trade workers, more materials, more logistical capacity to get them to site (and without overdepending on international supply disruptions). There's always somewhere else developers want to build in Vancouver.
Deregulation isn't an "all or nothing" ideology unless you make it one. Take out one or two control rods at a time just to test something? Alright. Take them all out at once? You're already dead. Not that many North American cities' apartment also have fire escape ladders at the front or back of the property.
It's funny how you think the building code is the main change of costs increasing, as if a pandemic-induced supply chain meltdown, inflation and plain old mismanagement had nothing to do with it. What changes were made to SkyTrain construction regs to make the SLS jump $2 billion?
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More to the point, the only reason we're even talking about this is because I said it was
more complicated to build a home now, not costlier. Since we're almost back to 70s/80s levels of construction (or have surpassed them), cost is evidently not the bottleneck.
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