City wants 200K new homes by 2050
The city wants to see 200,000 new homes and accompanying transit built by 2050, as described in a recent plan. CBC describes it as “more housing, trees and public transit” and TVA highlights the ambitious plan for new trams.
Blork 21:56 on 2024-06-11 Permalink
2050? How about getting some JFK ambition and shoot for 2030?
Nicholas 22:37 on 2024-06-11 Permalink
While it would be great to see, that would be a 25% increase in occupied dwellings in six years. From the 2016 to 2021 censuses, occupied dwellings went up by 36,000, not even 1% a year. You would have to get every builder in the region to just work in Montreal to get that to happen.
MarcG 06:53 on 2024-06-12 Permalink
Sometimes I tell my wife that we need to leave at 8am when really we don’t have to go until 8:30 because it means we’ll be there on time