Gentrification in Park Ex in the Guardian
The Guardian Cities section looks at the gentrification of Park Extension in Justin Trudeau’s own riding, Papineau.
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david100 04:24 on 2019-09-28 Permalink
If only there were some way we could fit more people onto the same amount of land, and thus satisfy housing demand in a smaller area, rather than forcing out the people who are outbid for the scarce units available . . .
Obviously, you can’t blame Trudeau, at least not personally. Obviously, he’s exactly the type of ‘progressive’ who doesn’t want change and would defend the artificial land shortage, and resulting gentrification and displacement created by ultra-low rise zoning. But anything he could do as the PM of Canada would be long term – the pink line would spread gentrification around more, so that the impacts of the artificial scarcity wouldn’t be so concentrated to the several neighborhoods feeling the pain today; buying up tracts and building government-owned market and non-market housing in a big way, which would be exempt from zoning; or massively slashing immigration, foreign work permits, foreign student permits, etc. to cut demand for housing in a big way.