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Originally Posted by OldDartmouthMark
Fans of history might note that this isn’t the first time that Halifax (and other Canadian cities) has had to build vast amounts of housing in a short time. Another example was during WWII when street upon street of virtually identical small houses were built (without foundations!) to house the huge number of people who moved to Halifax to support the war effort. After the war they were sold off to citizens with the provision that they had to install foundations for approval.
I wasn’t alive at the time to monitor public sentiment, but I never heard any of the older people complain about them being eyesores or whatever. So it can be done if we use our heads and make reasonable decisions.
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I have to wonder though. Weren't most of those homes built on greenfield or other vacant places like the old airport site? There's a big difference between building fast and hard when you have a mostly blank slate compared to doing infill. Yet Halifax is too large now to build a lot of greenfield because those areas are so much further out at this point and it would require a lot of infrastructure compared to infill housing. Particularly transportation infrastructure since it's much harder to built stuff out on the periphery without it being car-dependant and adding to traffic.
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