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Originally Posted by WhipperSnapper
It's my opinion having lived in modest but still functional Toronto area homes that these bedrooms, the breakfast nook, the living room is functionally cramped. These modest prewar Toronto area homes built for worker families are now elitist as Toronto drives to catch Lagos is just plain sad.
This is the standard of 80 to 90% of the hundreds of thousands of units that has been built over the course of the last decade in broader GTA. I don't know how many times that needs to be said until you get that's the problem. There is only one choice available for any given lifestyle which counters the basis of your defence of mediocrity to satisfying your desirable supply quotas. The other 10% to 20 are multi-million dollar McMansions.
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Yes, the problem is that alternative options don't exist.The problem is NOT with what does exist, it's with what doesn't. That's what I've been saying
for months. Or maybe years? I never disagreed that a lack of housing diversity is a problem. I want all kinds of housing diversity and have been very clear about that. I want townhouses, duplexes and multi-perplexes. I want small, medium, and large apartment buildings. I want to see large, medium, and small units and high, medium, and low prices. And I want all these diverse housing types to exist in diverse neighbourhood options ranging from downtown, large nodes and major streets all the way down to leafy residential areas. And i want diversity of land uses so that the vast majority of land isn't dominated by a single housing type. If anything, I want more housing diversity than you want.
So just complaining about the existence of smaller units is fallacious. It's like if you drive a diesel car and it's hard to find local fuel stations that offer anything but gasoline. The gasoline isn't the problem. The lack of diesel is the problem. So stop complaining about the existence of gasoline every time you see it being offered since its existence wouldn't be a problem if those who wanted diesel could get it. Yet you say the same thing about pretty much every new project - the units are all too small for your approval and it's all Lagos or some other third world comparison. Which implies that you don't just want other options to exist (which I 100% agree with) but that you want options you don't care for not to exist (which i vehemently disagree with).
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