“Growth has been paying for non-growth” is better the way to put it…

One of the most interesting conversations about Seaton Village’s recent and successful campaign to block urban growth in their infrastructure-rich, yet shrinking, shire… Chris Spoke and Matt Spoke’s new podcast. open.spotify.com/episode/755UXn…

What John Ibbitson gets wrong is the following.

The parts of the city with the greatest growth in the number of kids are also the places building the most housing.

Building space for families is good for families. Throttling supply is bad for families.

Mike Eliason steelmanning the NIMBY ‘character’ argument and offering a more constructive response: building code reform, to legalize small lot apt buildings.

Hard agree here.

Kinda brilliant:

How cities can find creative ways to block density...

as someone who has both moved recently and rented an apartment recently, I'm gonna gently suggest this might not be amazing for tenants

'Zoning had been about making sure nobody built a factory next to your house. Now, it was about making sure nobody built a 3 storey triplex next to your 3 storey house.
That limited housing supply & raised housing prices in places where demand was highest' theglobeandmail.com/business/comme…

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Note this Toronto: if we don’t move beyond the house shape as our favourite shape (single family, multiplex etc) we will always be driving people underground to damp, dark, floodable homes. We need to build up.

10M height cap is climate-adaptation stupid, for starters.

But playing this out more, the City’s Major Streets in Neighbourhoods initiative could result in the perverse situation wherein those areas, which have no relationship to major transit whatsoever could get more density that literally right next to a subway station.

Basically, this.

The former CEO of [checks notes] *The Greenbelt Foundation*, made this argument against an urban family rental *within* the Greenbelt next to two subway stations. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Any discussion of the “financialization” of housing that doesn’t recognize that every single homeowner is an investor, is doomed from the outset and will more likely than not just hurt renters.

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