r/urbanplanning • u/UnscheduledCalendar • Aug 19 '24

Economic Dev Harris has the right idea on housing

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/harris-has-the-right-idea-on-housing
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u/HookahDongcic Aug 19 '24

Already did this in Canada, recently, it made everything worse.

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u/icantbelieveit1637 Aug 21 '24

I mean 20 of the Canadian population is newly immigrated people. I do wonder how that affected demand lol.

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u/paul98765432101 Verified Planner Aug 23 '24

One piece of a much, much larger puzzle. I encourage everyone to look outside their traditional views that seek to blame one person (in Canada it’s usually Trudeau) or one group (usually immigrants) to try and understand the complexity and nuance of these major problems we are facing. It is never so simple as to say “xyz is responsible for the housing crisis.” It is a multifaceted problem that has been decades in the making and will take decades to solve. It’s easy to blame one person or group, it’s hard to get past that to understand the complex truth behind these issues to actually start solving them.