The idea that’s being sold with the housing accelerator funds is not just specifically them building homes with it but forcing cities to adopt more development friendly policies that would allow for additional housing.
From the article and it also mentioned twice.
Fraser said of the Vancouver deal that the cash from the government’s Housing Accelerator Fund would cut barriers to building homes and “incentivize changes” at the municipal level.
It really wish people would stop being coy with what they want.
how the 4,000 homes/year would affect the housing market
This reads like a press release. There’s no explanation of what the money will be used for.
The article is about a press release. If you actually read the article you’re grossly misinterpreting what is being conveyed.
how the 4,000 homes/year would affect the housing market
If so: I’d like to be able to afford a home in the near future. I’d also like my kids to be able to afford a home in a decade or two.
Asking this to get what you want is like asking a doctor how a good night of sleep next Tuesday effects your overall health for the year. There’s no reason for anyone to spend time trying quantify a singular activity when the results will clearly be determined by much larger aggregate of them.
I know parliamentary procedure is boring, and most people don’t follow it, but I do and I saw what happened here.
I’m not certain you intended for this to sound condescending like you’re the only here that pays attentions to what’s happening. The person you’re replying to has practically single handily held up most of the Lemmy Canadian content for a while.
Even if it had passed the house it wouldn’t have got past the Senate and the committee delayed their report so long nothing could be done before the next election.
B.C.’s Housing Minister, Ravi Kahlon, told Global News Monday that this couple’s landlord should “give himself a head shake” but he is in a legal position to do this.
“I mean, this is the challenge that we have with sometimes landlords and tenants. Most landlords are good people and they operate in a good, transparent way. But this is a situation in which reminds us that we need to continue to find ways to strengthen the rules to ensure that the tenants are protected when they move into new places,” Kahlon said.
I really don’t understand why people keep perpetuating the belief that vast majority of landlord are anything but for profit investors and society should treat them as such.
This loophole has existed and been used unfairly for a long time now I really don’t understand why they haven’t amended the RTA to at least cap the extra occupancy increase and exempt a reasonable amount of children.
Ultimately my situation isn’t everyone’s, but staying in the city made sense for me.
Much more common than you think. For anyone that started renting their place before 2020 and especially if they primarily used transit. The likely increase in rent and getting a car would mean vast majority of mid sized cities in Canada wasn’t going to be any cheaper.
“We have no idea how deep they will have to drill [to grab water],” she said, adding she’s been quoted up to $35,000 for a new well.
That line is probably more important. Also there’s no guarantee they hit water on the first attempt which would cost even more, people should understand that 35k isn’t even that much depending where you’re trying to drill for water.
Additionally like it mentioned in the article and the last few years by people monitoring ground water it looks like a lot of place are going dry regardless of high deep you drill.
True but I would believe the general level of enthusiasm for a conversation about RDT would be substantially higher in a modern espresso group vs filter coffee folk.
Also my previous comment is bit of a inner monologue as someone who posted very randomly detailed things on r/espresso back in the day and rather uncertain if/where I would post that stuff on Lemmy.
Cutting/deferring carbon taxes is such a bad idea. It sends the wrong message. There should be no exemptions. This is the cost per tonne of carbon. Period.
What Trudeau did is fundamentally against why the Carbon tax is considered to be one best means to reduce carbon emissions. And to top it off he did it for one of the worst heating fuels.
I agree the chargeback is probably the way to go. I do wonder as Amazon grows and becomes a bigger part of people lives whether it’s worth it to potentially get banned from them.
Especially given his location.
Leo Chteinberg lives in the small town of Tahsis, B.C. — a remote community nestled between the mountains and the ocean on the west coast of Vancouver Island
The postman delivered a new to me DF83 Gen 1 with SSP HU burrs. Just had fun dialing it in over lunch for espresso. It is a huge step up from the Niche Zero it replaces for espresso.
As a Canadian the DF83 with the SSP burrs is actually pretty close the Niche zero price wise due to how their distribution works. Essentially you pay UK tax and Canadian duties at least the last time I checked last year.
It’s poor value but for many years it was the only modern single dose style conical grinder especially one with very solid workflow so people gritted there teeth and paid for it.
I have a significant disdain for anything from Fellow after a few bad experiences.
A few weeks ago there was a post on how much gambling advertising is in Sports these days. I looked on the numbers on Canadian gambling addiction and it certainly seems to be much more widespread.
Don’t really think I’ve really seen any of them complain about that. They just seem have a really unhealthy infatuation about sex.
Never invade Russia in the winter. Never fight a land war in Asia. Never go for a third term as Prime Minister in Canada. It makes the electorate hate you. I don’t complain much about his policies, but Trudeau is screwing his own party over and now we might end up with the Trumpiest of Canadian politicians as PM.
As someone who believes that Conservatives are just a more religious and dumber version of the Liberals. I really have no problem with the “fuck Trudeau” slogans but they probably want to spend more time figuring out what the actual solution is.
The whole conservative mantra is just to simplify everything to single individual whether it be a villain or savior.
This is a really great long form article about the efforts to upzone New Zealand, one of the only countries going through an even worse housing crisis than Canada. There’s a lot to learn here about the political challenges of implementing good urban planning strategy.
As someone from BC I’m painfully aware of the recent BC Liberal era. Although the Horgan NDP’s wasn’t exactly hitting out the park and bungling voting reform could really bite them in the ass.
While many places in North America has upzoned single family home areas. There’s still many hurdles that don’t make it enticing to build these higher density developments.
The examples given were:
(California) Limited max useable sqft. Would result in something like 2000 sqft max on the plot of land which would mean only 500 sqft units if there’s 4 units.
(Vancouver) In some circumstances it can cost a extra 70k in fees per unit built. 280k extra for the aforementioned 4 units.
(Coquitlam) Requiring 2 or more parking spots per unit. Be 8-9 spots for the 4 units.
He estimates with all these limitations developers would need to sell those 500 sqft units for 1 million dollars for it to be viable. A notable point is that for developers to even get a loan from banks for housing projects they need to demonstrate they can have a 15-20% profit margin.
The video like most of Utae’s is pretty short and to the point. Well worth the 10 minutes watch.
This idea seems so bad is sounds like it came from the Conservatives.
Eby says there are proposals at the federal level to sell public land and buildings to help solve the crisis, but B.C. is doing the opposite by taking inventory of provincially and municipally owned land in order to build more homes.
The budget has been release since the article. Haven’t seen much comments for it aside from people not liking the bulk of the funds(15 billion) not being available till 2025.
To start off Eby’s quote made it seem like a wide spread federal idea, but there no sign of Liberals proposing selling off any federal land. So it is indeed just a Conservative idea.
In regards to why it’s a bad idea it’s because that’s how we got here. The Conservative government “saved” money by not building housing only for people to pay substantially more for it down the road. If there is any belief that we can just kick this can down the road till it becomes someone else’s problem aside from housing, that what was said for climate change, and healthcare as well,
I’d also doubt selling thousands of buildings and large swaths of land would be fast, unless they go full Conservative and do a fire sale again like Harper did. Where Canadian get pennies on the dollar.
Eby says there are proposals at the federal level to sell public land and buildings to help solve the crisis, but B.C. is doing the opposite by taking inventory of provincially and municipally owned land in order to build more homes....
B.C. Finance Minister Katrine Conroy said she was pleased the federal government designated $15 billion toward housing, but concerned the money isn’t set to start flowing until 2025.
Would be real nice if the federal government would act with some urgency.
Just adding a extra CBC video stating that the timeline would mean these projects won’t be move in ready till 2030 if they don’t start getting money 2025.
I don’t think there’s a easy fix coming soon anytime
Rarely is for problems that are left to fester for decades. As usual it’ll also be exponential in cost to fix now compared to when things weren’t as bad.
Kinda crazy conservative parties still get a large amount of support running austerity platforms.
In a similar standoff near Lytton in January 2020, a sniper with an RCMP emergency response team shot and killed Barry Shantz – a man reported to be armed and suicidal.
At a Coroner’s Inquest into that case, the RCMP crisis negotiator working that day said the psychologist on call to offer advice in mental health crisis situations did not return messages left during the incident until two weeks later.
A few months ago I planted some jalapenos in my Aerogarden(mini hydroponics).
For some reason my mom decided to prune the hell out of the bottom leaves instead of the top leaves like your suppose to as they already had a advantage of being closer to the light source. As expected the top leaves just grew to a point where it left zero opportunity for the lower leaves to grow at all.
I really couldn’t do anything since the plant was already over pruned, so I just watched the top leave reach the point where it smothered the light causing them them to burn. At this point the plants are pretty much dead.
Anyways probably I’ll probably swap them out for some cherry tomatoe plants. Not sure what Canadians plan to do when things become completely untenable as we go out of our way to support the wealthiest people.
The febrile seizure, which occurred on the night of Sept. 6, was the sixth one her two-and-a-half-year-old daughter had experienced since she was diagnosed with the condition just shy of her first birthday....
She said when she asked why it took them so long to respond this time, they seemed confused.
“They were like, ‘What do you mean? We only got a call a few minutes ago.’ They said we were parked in the neighbourhood… She told me basically that they could have been here within five minutes.”
According to Fuda, the paramedics apologized and indicated that a new system was responsible for causing delays in their response times.
“They were so upset themselves because they said this is an ongoing problem,” Fuda said,
…
The province’s new Medical Priority Dispatch System (MPDS), which prioritizes life-threatening medical conditions over other calls, was implemented in Peel Region in December 2022
2SLGBTQIA+ community leaders are denouncing the Conservative leader’s speech accusing Justin Trudeau of imposing “radical gender ideology” on children.
Imagine making 12.5 million dollars and not be competent enough to figure out how to a business where people don’t have to drag themselves off your planes.
Trudeau said the Liberals are increasing the maximum amount of funding towards the purchase and installation of a heat pump from $10,000 to $15,000. They will be doing this by adding up to $5,000 in “grant funding to match provincial and territorial contributions,” which, according to a PMO release, would mean most households will be able to get their pump for free.
I’m agree the Liberals are in the wrong here but this guy never forgoes an opportunity to sound like a massive tool.
“So, the question becomes, what will Jagmeet Singh do?” Poilievre asked in his caucus address.
“Will he stand with the voters who put their trust in his MPs in places like Timmins and other cold northern communities? Or will he once again sell out working class Canadians in order to suck up to Justin Trudeau? That will be his decision.”
“Hodgins says he was offered a C$2,000 flight voucher by the airline, but said compensation would not “fix the problem” of how the airline failed its disabled passengers.”
Given how much this seems to be happening I’d be for fining any airline that does this 100k. Half for the victims and half for disability advocacy groups.
Looking at the area they’ll have to remove the street parking but that still wouldn’t leave much room for two way traffic even with a sidewalk on just one side.
From road planning perspective it probably best to enroach on these guys rather giant lawns at which point we’ll probably find out it was never about “safety”.
On a getting\keeping the job level it’s clear that most Canadians thinks we have a 2 party system. So they just have to wait their turn.
On a social economical level the average MP makes 200k, get substantial subsidies, decides their own raises and definitely not working the 40hrs x 52ish weeks a year.
For the humanitarian front the average Canadian donates about $350 a year. I believe we’re seeing about the same amount of concern from the MP’s.
I feel like funding is strongly correlated with this:
“Sim and ABC’s support for more police officers led to a historic move by the Vancouver Police Union to officially endorse the party in the run-up to the 2022 civic election”
Adams believes the Canadian military and the CFMWS are trying to sweep the incident under the rug. “They don’t want anything to cause embarrassment for the Latvia mission,” she said. “It’s all about protecting the mission.”...
It’s true that large organizations want to sweep things under the rug. Especially the current government but I think it should be clearer what really went wrong here.
Most victims would just go public right away if they wanted to make a spectacle of the incidents. Reporting things internally and have it make its way up the pay grade actually seemed to be good since it made it up all the way to a VP.
Now this idiot needs to be at the very minimum fired and banned from any public sector job. People really shouldn’t make this one of this ambiguous situations where we make let an large entity divvy up the problem until no one is really accountable.
“As you were made aware during pre-deployment training, which occurred from 6 to 15 September 2022, there are risks involved in deploying into a theatre of operations where numerous countries work and live together and of the cultural differences that exist as a result,” wrote Ben Ouellette, vice president of CFMWS"
Unless I’m missing something aside from the professor stating there’s seemingly no changes there’s also no specifics items that is targeted to cheaper despite Minister Champagne patting himself on the back for a job well done.
From the CBC article it appears they’re going to keep things rather opaque.
“Champagne also said that the examples he gave were only part of the plans grocers have presented to him. He said he wouldn’t reveal more details in order to ensure fair competition.”
Tensions flared in the House of Commons on Monday over opposition calls for House of Commons Speaker Anthony Rota to resign after apologizing to the House of Commons for inviting, recognizing and leading the chamber in a standing ovation for a man who fought for a Nazi unit during the Second World War.
Canadians really need to start voting for actual competent people instead of parties. Even the pretense of parading a Ukrainian guy around due to the Russian invasion is rather repugnant behavior.
The guy who runs Generation Squeeze says building more homes isn’t enough to lower prices, because most people buying houses are already property owners. Property owners can either sell their current house to get a load of cash, or borrow against it to get a load of cash. Either way, they can pay a lot for their next property....
Why do people always act like can only be one thing done to resolve the housing issue.
We could build our way out of this like a screw can be driven in with a hammer. It would probably just damage the screw, the wood and do a poor job binding the materials. We could attempt to build our way out of this while seeing how much investors skim off the top.
An extra few hundred thousand houses is going to take years if not decades to get built but we could have new taxes in the span of months and the houses would still be built. However none of these are even the real issue.
One of the aspects I see rarely mentioned is how bad investors is for people quality of life of people actually living in those places.
For anyone that’s been involved in strata affairs they’ve probably seen many cases where investors refuse to make repairs for as long as possible so they can cash out and make it someone’s problem. Or where new builds are accepted with horrible design and finishing. They don’t care if the layout so bad that you have to stand on the toilet to open the bathroom door or the tiles have so much lippage it’ll slice your foot open, that’s s the renter or the next buyers problem.
It would help a lot if the governments would actually lead or if people would actually vote for people who would lead.
99% politicians will only reactively look into solving any problems 10 years after they should. Imagine if we started building inter province transit systems and walkable cities 20 years ago.
I also don’t understand how that person came to their conclusion based off of:
"We should allow mixed-use buildings of at least six storeys in all our neighbourhoods—and ensure that they are not only easier to approve, but also more viable to build. "
The problem is that Canada has not developed enough for the population growth while we let multiple people take their cuts before it ever ends up being someone’s home.
On top of that Canadian voters overwhelmingly said they wanted more of the same last election by pretty much voting for the same 2 parties has brought us to this point.
The solution is complicated because people can’t agree on the problem.
As with your comment and subject of the article there is plenty of people that are perfectly happy with the housing crisis as long as the remain to the favourable side of it.
This type strategic voting against Liberals and Conservative is how Canada has just alternated between two bad parties for the last few decades.
Progress takes time and it doesn’t mean every single moment things have to go in the right direction. Canada can survive the Liberals and Conservatives for a couple more terms it means some type of political progress.
The federal Liberals are seeing a dive in popularity among younger voters, once the core of their base, falling 23 points behind the Conservatives by the end of August, according to new polling from Nanos Research.
I think it should be clearer the Liberals has only done things where people pump even more money into real estate.
I really don’t understand why there’s any debate whether they would do anything for prices when the person who was their Housing Minister flipped houses and said investor like him was doing Canadians a solid.
$115 M funding deal could help build 40,000 homes in Vancouver over decade: Trudeau (www.winnipegfreepress.com)
Non-Paywall Article
Phil Tank: Trudeau may now regret his broken electoral reform promise (thestarphoenix.com)
The plummeting poll numbers for Justin Trudeau and the federal Liberals might not seem as dire if Canada had adopted a new voting system.
B.C. couple faces $600 a month rent hike when their baby becomes new ‘occupant’ | Globalnews.ca (globalnews.ca)
As Real Estate Costs Soar, an Influx of Residents Is Changing My BC Town | The Walrus (thewalrus.ca)
A residential drinking well in northern B.C. has run dry, prompting concerns amid unprecedented drought (www.cbc.ca)
Scientists claim to have discovered secret to perfect espresso (www.theguardian.com)
Spoiler, its RDT...
Canada's grocery sector among the most competitive on Earth, claims Sobeys CEO (www.cbc.ca)
Household impact of Canada axing the carbon tax (www.cbc.ca)
If Canada axed its carbon tax– and rebates- this is how different households would gain or lose....
Amazon gives customer runaround after $2,100 watch missing from delivered package (www.cbc.ca)
New (to me) Grinder Monday (lemmy.world)
The postman delivered a new to me DF83 Gen 1 with SSP HU burrs. Just had fun dialing it in over lunch for espresso. It is a huge step up from the Niche Zero it replaces for espresso.
New Normcore Palm Tamper (lemmy.world)
I’ve been trying out a few palm tampers was pretty disappointed at the current offerings....
This transgender man moved to Canada to escape transphobia. He found it here, too (www.cbc.ca)
Polydoros, 27, says he feels safer in Canada. But nationwide protests in September over LGBTQ-inclusive school policies disturbed him....
Poilievre opens up 15 point lead over Trudeau on preferred Prime Minister tracking (Nanos) (nanos.co)
Never invade Russia in the winter. Never fight a land war in Asia. Never go for a third term as Prime Minister in Canada. It makes the electorate hate you. I don’t complain much about his policies, but Trudeau is screwing his own party over and now we might end up with the Trumpiest of Canadian politicians as PM.
Upzoning New Zealand - Works in Progress (worksinprogress.co)
This is a really great long form article about the efforts to upzone New Zealand, one of the only countries going through an even worse housing crisis than Canada. There’s a lot to learn here about the political challenges of implementing good urban planning strategy.
About Here: Why your City is STILL Struggling to Build 'Missing Middle' Housing (www.youtube.com)
Eby says governments must step up on housing, can't rely on private sector (www.bnnbloomberg.ca)
Eby says governments must step up on housing, can't rely on private sector (bc.ctvnews.ca)
Eby says there are proposals at the federal level to sell public land and buildings to help solve the crisis, but B.C. is doing the opposite by taking inventory of provincially and municipally owned land in order to build more homes....
This is the reason your ER doctors are leaving: You don’t have a family doctor, and you can’t get an admission bed. So you end up waiting and waiting in the ER for a physician (www.thestar.com)
Children of homeowners twice as likely to own homes themselves, says StatsCan (www.cbc.ca)
Latest RCMP standoff death prompts renewed calls for better mental health crisis response (bc.ctvnews.ca)
Top 1% of Canada’s earners getting richer, while lowest half see incomes drop (globalnews.ca)
According to Statistics Canada, the recovery seen by Canada following the first year of the pandemic produced uneven income gains.
Ontario mom says she waited over 20 minutes for ambulance after being told toddler's seizure was 'not a priority' (toronto.ctvnews.ca)
The febrile seizure, which occurred on the night of Sept. 6, was the sixth one her two-and-a-half-year-old daughter had experienced since she was diagnosed with the condition just shy of her first birthday....
Pierre Poilievre Under Fire After Video Surfaces of Homophobic and Transphobic Speech (pressprogress.ca)
2SLGBTQIA+ community leaders are denouncing the Conservative leader’s speech accusing Justin Trudeau of imposing “radical gender ideology” on children.
Air Canada summoned to Ottawa after multiple incidents involving passengers with wheelchairs (www.cbc.ca)
NDP to back Conservative motion calling for carbon price off all heat sources (www.ctvnews.ca)
The New Democrats say they will back the Conservatives on a motion to pull the carbon price off all home heating until after the next election.
Carbon price pause could become a wedge issue in Parliament. Here’s how (globalnews.ca)
Update: NDP to back Conservative motion calling for carbon price off all heat sources...
Disabled man drags himself off plane after Air Canada fails to offer wheelchair (www.theguardian.com)
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'It's not appropriate here': Residents voice safety concerns as Vancouver council approves new Dunbar rental building (bc.ctvnews.ca)
“The whole neighbourhood is not happy about council’s decision,” said Alan Kenney, a resident who lives in the area....
As cost of living soars, millions of Canadians are turning to food banks (www.cbc.ca)
100 Cops, Not Even 10 Nurses | The Tyee (thetyee.ca)
Canadian Forces worker sexually assaulted at NATO base told she should have realized such risks existed: documents (ottawacitizen.com)
Adams believes the Canadian military and the CFMWS are trying to sweep the incident under the rug. “They don’t want anything to cause embarrassment for the Latvia mission,” she said. “It’s all about protecting the mission.”...
Grocery chains will freeze some prices under federal plan to fight rising food costs, minister says (www.theglobeandmail.com)
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Canada is pouring billions of dollars into the electric vehicle industry. Will it pay off? (www.cbc.ca)
Speaker's Nazi veteran invite 'profoundly embarrassing' Trudeau says, as Rota faces calls to resign (www.ctvnews.ca)
Tensions flared in the House of Commons on Monday over opposition calls for House of Commons Speaker Anthony Rota to resign after apologizing to the House of Commons for inviting, recognizing and leading the chamber in a standing ovation for a man who fought for a Nazi unit during the Second World War.
Building more isn't enough to lower home prices (www.theglobeandmail.com)
The guy who runs Generation Squeeze says building more homes isn’t enough to lower prices, because most people buying houses are already property owners. Property owners can either sell their current house to get a load of cash, or borrow against it to get a load of cash. Either way, they can pay a lot for their next property....
Why urban density is actually good for us (www.straight.com)
Investors account for 30 per cent of home buying in Canada (www.theglobeandmail.com)
According to a Bank of Canada report:...
The Housing Crisis Isn’t Going Anywhere Until We Tackle Property Wealth Inequality (jacobin.com)
Almost half of Canadians living paycheque to paycheque as Tory support grows: poll (www.winnipegfreepress.com)
Non-Paywall Article
'Getting squeezed on both sides': Liberals a distant third among younger voters (www.ctvnews.ca)
The federal Liberals are seeing a dive in popularity among younger voters, once the core of their base, falling 23 points behind the Conservatives by the end of August, according to new polling from Nanos Research.