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Originally Posted by kwajo
Bingo. While it is attractive for many to choose the suburban route, a huge proportion of the population raises families in condos or rentals and need adequate housing choices as well.
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I mean, it remains to be seen if this development will include many units conducive to family living, but if we want more families in the core, we have to encourage family-friendly multi-unit projects. It's highly unlikely developers are going to start building detached houses on the peninsula, and the historic/legacy housing stock is pretty much full. So apartments (and townhouses, of course) it'll have to be if we want more families in the core.
(Of course, we have to build family-friendly buildings. In more expensive cities, we see situations where urban-dwellers are forced to go suburban when they start having kids because the family-friendly historic housing stock is too expensive, and new multi-unit developments include very few family-sized units. This is happening to a lesser degree here, and it will only get worse as the city centre becomes pricier.)