Benton/Church project | 40 fl | Proposed

[tomh009]

But unfortunately there's no way we can make developers focus on apartments and other multi-unit, family oriented projects.

At the moment, the market is taking care of that ...

[bravado]

What if we let the market decide and people who want a "dog crate" can buy it with their own money and live in it? There's something so condescending about how some people talk about housing that they don't personally like.

Wow you've come a long way! "Let the market decide" is great and I'm all for it however I'm certainly not for bailing out private business with tax dollars, be it whichever industry

I am hearing rumblings from developers wanting to get a bailout package

When I referred to the market, I don’t mean it in some crony capitalism way. I mean that the market builds what it can, and what can be built in Ontario is 1br studios. Anything else is outright illegal or unprofitable by design. We didn’t just stop building normal family apartments because it went out of fashion. They aren’t allowed anymore… so people have to grab the housing they can, which is currently a whole lot of “dog crates”.

So many people blame developers and customers and have no blame for the people writing our zoning and land use regulations.