Of COURSE the most conservative and reactionary premier in Canada comes out with the NIMBY bill.

Can we stop pretending it’s progressive to ban apartments now?

local nimby clubs sign nimby letter saying nimby

Ric McIver delayed the #GreenLineYYC by over 2 years for an unnecessary review. Now he claims reviewing municipal funding agreements with Ottawa will only take a “couple of minutes, or 10 minutes to review five or eight different agreements.”

theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…

Another key datapoint in the Neofeudalization of the English-speaking world.

Wealth is increasingly derived from property inheritance. It is the primary driver of wealth for Millennials.

This will simply not end well.

'Since single-stair buildings are not bisected by long hallways, they allow for better space utilization, a lot more windows, and layouts that are more conducive to family life.' ryanpuzycki.com/p/cities-arent…

“In the final analysis, the car wastes more time than it saves and creates more distance than it overcomes.” unevenearth.org/2018/08/the-so…

My new summer policy: if you’re gonna idle your motorcycle right next to the patio where I’m drinking, you’re gonna get heckled and loudly booed at

watching NIMBYs turn themselves into pretzels to make *building homes in a city during a housing crisis* into a Trudeau-inspired conspiracy theory is truly wild

I worked on this story for a year and he just... tweeted it out twitter.com/CompletedStree…

oof

Opinion: Public rallies against loss of manicured green space but not natural ecosystems calgaryherald.com/business/local…

This will crush a majority of social science research in the province, research that we do in order to make the province a better place to live, work and raise a family.

We need to build millions of new homes to tackle the housing crisis.

We won't be able to accomplish this if parking mandates keep forcing our cities to build excessive amounts of parking.

I think it's really cool that Danielle Smith is going to decimate post-secondary education in this province ... to 'own the libs' on funding housing. just doubly awesome

I'm not anti-democracy, big fan, really, but sometimes a lot of people can be wrong about the same thing at once and the fact that there's a lot of them doesn't necessarily mean their bad idea should win the day.

play to die instantly

Cheap rent made Philip Glass possible too, who told me in 2012: “The problem is, when I came to New York, it’s much more difficult now. You could work 3 days a wk loading a truck or driving a cab, and you’d have enough money to live off of' the other 3+ weeks to do your art!

This fails to mention that Quebec *matched* the federal HAF money, and they used it to fund 8,000 social housing units, in addition to land use reforms that will increase housing production.

Alberta is trying to gesture towards Quebec but they won’t agree to those terms either

10 years ago millennial listen to “modest mouse” now they cannot even afford a “modest house”

Great line from db's piece on Curbed.'
'In the 1980s, [David] lived in Manhattan Plaza, a federally subsidized affordable-housing complex designed for artists.' That's right folks, socialized artists' housing helped give us Larry David.

thenation.com/article/cultur…