I don’t think this is a prescription so much as an analysis of how far the current zoning is from what would probably be built if people could build what they wanted.

Forced private developers to build? Extremely unlikely, since governments spent that time forbidding private developers from building. Why work at cross purposes?

Smells like an absolutely correct thesis supported by the data

Private companies “choosing” not to build, vs what, building illegal wildcat apartments and daring the city to shut them down?

Okay, wow, astonishingly condescending argument to make to a 39 year old parent. Sorry, but this is such obvious stuff. If people’s life circumstances change such that they want something other than urban core living, the demand for it goes down. Why isn’t it?

We can’t know that though, can we? If people were leaving the core because they didn’t like it, the core would be cheap.

Really looking forward to number 5!

Yea between this and Patrick Condon, our city is awash in pseudo-economics

Doesn’t this coincide so precisely with downzoning in Canadian cities that you can’t be sure?

Maybe those are dogs in the pasture

What we now call “reading”, future people will call “deep reading”, and they will have vastly more information at their command.

It is a long-term solution to my congenital caffeine deficiency

Defunding housing and transit seems bad

Yeah, they asked applicant, and he gave a tepid yes on that one. Staff were more confident yesterday.

Making a symbolic gesture *against* good things is not the winning move their defenders think it is.

I thought they said that in the first hearing too. I was in chambers for that one