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Originally Posted by GlassCity
I like reading Price's work, but this strikes me as him championing density for the sake of being dense and green rather than him actually caring about how it can ease housing affordability.
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Agreed. But without the densification, how can we even put in the right type of affordable housing?
Looking around Vancouver, many of the SROs are located in buildings built from the 30s to the 60s. These are very high density buildings built at those time periods, and most were once market housing for either ownership or rental. Decades down the road, they turn into space for affordable housing. Fast forward to the present, if we don't increase the market housing density of today, where will we then find our affordable housing of the future?