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Originally Posted by Antigonish
The housing crisis is self-imposed, it isn't due to planning/government bureaucracy. In the last decade alone HRM has made tremendous strides in development approval since the Centre Plan was introduced. The province opened the floodgates to mass immigration at the behest of the citizens and our infrastructure.
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Not self-imposed at all. There have been many factors involved, including real estate prices in other parts of the country rising rapidly due mostly to foreign “investment” and lack of ambition from the feds to do anything about it (lots to it but won’t get into it), Covid created a perfect storm of people wanting to get away from the larger cities, ability to WFH, and relatively low real estate prices in quaint NS. The housing crisis was born in NS.
Then the feds opening the immigration floodgates for TFWs and anybody else who desired to live in Canada, causing huge population increases everywhere in the country, and exacerbating the housing crisis everywhere, including NS. The nail in the coffin if you will.
This caused a number of knee-jerk reactions from all levels of government, with Halifax getting some planning intervention from the province, one of the results being the subject of this discussion.
Not sure how we are supposed to blame ourselves for this, but if that works for you, fill your boots.
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