The Cure for Canada's Housing Crisis? Boost Immigration!
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How does importing more third world solve the lack of housing caused by NIMBY zoning laws?
If adding one criminal to a city removes two normal people, either by white flight or by murder, then you've reduced the demand for housing.
That's unironically probably their real reasoning. They won't say it, but a sudden influx of vibrancy is a proven method to obliterate demand, which reduces an entire city to a ghetto where they can store Democrat voters for next to nothing because property values are close to zero.
Remember, the ideal society for a leftist is billions of non-whites living in ten square foot concrete closets where they'll get high and watch CNN until the yearly period when the doors open for 24 hours so they can go vote blue no matter who.
"Vote blue no matter who" would be an interesting strategy in Canada, considering the colours are reversed there. Of course it wouldn't matter much in the end, but still.
Well, "vote red unless you're dead" doesn't work because leftists continue to vote from the grave.
It has little to do with NIMBYism and everything to do with government interference.
First, Southern Ontario has literally millions of acres of undeveloped land that both companies and individuals are chomping at the bit to develop. The problem is, they can't; it's all zoned as Environmentally Protected. This means that you can't build on or harvest resources from the land you own. Further, even though Canada has a progressive Carbon Tax, there's no mechanism by which a land owner could monetize the living trees on their property (like a Carbon Credit) because Canada doesn't count the reduction in CO2 from trees until they're harvested, which you can't do on EP land. So the land sits there, both undeveloped and useless towards our so-called environmental committments.
Second, municipalities have been fully aware that they were running out of space for decades. They're confined by the municipal boundaries which were set some time in the last millenium. Instead of planning for this, or leaving any land untouched, they've built sprawl. Subdivisions provide the worse combination of high-maintenance and low usable space, but each lot nets the city tens of thousands of dollars in lot fees alone, before anything is even built. Instead of building 4-8-plexes with large parks and walkable amenities, they build 1/4 acre houses with tiny parks (because the yards are too small to use for anything other than a BBQ) which need cars because the low density doesn't support small, distributed retail but large centralized super-stores.
I would honestly by fine with immigration if the new people were expected to move out to the woods and build new cities, like my ancestors did, but they're literally just taking up all the low-price housing options.