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Originally Posted by fenwick16
It is no different than the free market for homes. It would be great if everyone could afford a mansion but everybody can't. That is why there are low cost apartments/condos versus luxury apartments/condos, and low cost attached homes (rowhouses or townhouses) versus expensive mansions.
People get what they pay for. There is a market for low cost apartments/condos because that is all that many people can afford. My opinion isn't an "optimistic point of view" it is just a realistic point of view.
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I don't want luxury mansions and condo buildings everywhere - that's not the point. What I was trying to say was that in building these low-cost buildings, the developers think don't think about how the building interacts with the community around it. The neighbourhood isn't walkable. Public transit is a nightmare. People are separated from the businesses and services (and in some cases, other people) that they interact with and use every day. I don't care about the cost of the apartments. What I want is housing (high-wealth, middle-class, affordable housing, whatever) that is well planned and well integrated with the community around it.
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Originally Posted by q12
Actually it's more to to do with the difficulty in the past decade that developers have had trying to build high-rises near the core. At least Halifax is growing somewhere. This is why if more projects like Skye Halifax are stopped it just keeps sending the message that it's easier to just build in the burbs.
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Just because developers are building in the suburbs doesn't mean that they have to build crap.
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Originally Posted by q12
I actually like the ravines, since it seems to be free of all the anti-development, save the view, please keep Halifax in 1700's type people.
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In my experience, the residents of the neighbourhood could care less about what happens downtown. As long as they have a four-pad arena and a Tim Horton's nearby, they're happy.