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Originally Posted by Chirpythecougar
With development charges the burden is placed solely on the home purchaser/renter. If the gov begins subsidizing the charges then the burden is spread out across all forms of taxpayers, hence lessening the burden on home purchasers/renters. Seems pretty obvious to me what the difference is.
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Maybe we just need to go back to the days when municipalities didn’t rely on selling condos to fund a huge chunk of their activity. It wasn’t always so.
The model they’re trying to preserve lead to a huge chunk of Canadians being priced out of housing. It isn’t a model worth saving.