Yeah, it does seem familiar, unfortunately. Looks like an interesting piece.

For real though, the stage 3 Waterloo route would connect the 4 largest growth areas outside Uptown. The only thing is it would be ludicrous to not rezone the Boardwalk for mixed use, because it's actually the perfect candidate for retrofitting sprawl*

*it's ludicrous we haven't done it yet period

Sorry, we won't have Carolyn Whitzman herself, but our group will be discussing her book in downtown Kitchener. Are you interested in that?

link here: www.scotiabank.com/ca/en/about/...

This would be a substantial, but very worthy, investment in affordable housing.
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To do this, housing experts @cwhitzman.bsky.social
and Priya Perwani call for the creation of “at least 4.4 million affordable homes" to meet the target of 20 percent of our housing stock being affordable. maytree.com/publications...

Housing formerly homeless people with supports and without pre-conditions significantly improves their life outcomes, even to the point that it leads to reduced costs to other areas of government. www.kansascityfed.org/documents/87...
mentalhealthcommission.ca/what-we-do/a...

We have a long way to go. A 2023 Scotiabank report found that if Canada were to double the social housing proportion of its housing market, this would merely take us to the rich country average. www.scotiabank.com/ca/en/about/...

You can sign the @migrantrightsca.bsky.social petition on Bill C-12 here: migrantrights.ca/actionslist/... 6/6

We are not full. While people congregate in cities for the opportunities they provide, we have space for more
if we are willing to make room 5/6

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Anyone who supports immigration but opposes more housing needs to grapple with the contradiction inherent in these two positions. Anytime you oppose multi-residential housing developments, you make it harder to convince other Canadians that we are not ‘‘full”. 4/6