Ontario may return portions of Greenbelt land
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ส.ค. 2023
- The Ford government is still getting roasted online over the sale of Greenbelt lands. Ontario Premier Doug Ford says his government is looking to put portions of the land it sold back - but many Ontarians aren't buying it. Ford and his housing minister Steve Clark have been trying and failing to move on from the scathing Auditor General report from earlier this month that found the province gave preferential treatment to certain developers when it removed land from the protected Greenbelt.
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Return all of it, and put Ford in prison
I want to see more of what Ontario First Nations Chiefs have to say. Ford isn't touching the greenbelt... Indigenous leaders will let him know #handsoffthegreenbelt
Who cares what the indians think - it is our land, not theiers.
Nothing is sacred to developers 😬
All of it should be returned! It is worrisome when poilievre threatens to sell federal lands to developers. Why does poilievre hate Canada? His flag waving is merely a phoney jesture.
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Housing prices and rents cannot come down without a surplus. Tens of thousands of units are constructed each year. More than a million are required. A variety of spurious pretexts are employed in order to justify placing a halt on the further use of land, deliberately keeping housing in short supply.
Those that come out in protest are the unwitting victims of a _con job_ that falsely believing will secure their future ensures their demise. Canada has 895,000,000 acres of forest that is a fraction of its total territory. None may be spared for housing.
Fifteen square miles allocated to housing that in a relative sense is the equivalent of a molecule in a football field would eliminate the shortfall and bring housing prices back to a normal level. Citizens of a democracy will not allow that to happen.
A home used to be a place to live in and traded in a free market like that for cars (until it was turned into a financial instrument in a monopoly) and persons at each income level could afford to buy one as homeowners whose income increased moved upwards to more expensive homes leaving their old homes to be acquired by new entrants. (You can purchase a three-bedroom home in Detroit for $15,000).
Before persons are admitted to public office, whether elected or employed at any level, they should be placed under oath and required to swear to the truth of their response to these questions: _Is your ulterior motive in becoming a public servant to place a halt on the use of the land resource? That was not promised to Canadians? That will cause home prices to skyrocket and shunt the lifetime earnings of citizens exacted through rent directly into the pockets of the chosen few? Unjustly enriching them and leaving residents impoverished and homeless?_
@@mrmelmba markets in Canada are now controlled..pick one. Housing, food, communications. Our finance minister was mentored and now a board member of a fascist organization the wef.lived in arizona for 6 years. Lots of immigration. Housing still totally collapsed 75 percent by 2012. Canada's environmental laws and unions have made it frankly a failed state/nation. It will never recover.
As far as housing being an investment instead of a home..
They made it so we can't produce products to sell to the world and realestate became it.. now its totally over for Canada. It will never succeed again till drastic measures are taken.
The world doesn't run on money it runs on energy to make money.. look at what people elect and look at our competition. India China
@@dougiep2769 Building _upwards_ while halting expansion _outwards_ causes home prices and rents to skyrocket, shunting the lifetime earnings of residents squarely into the pockets of the chosen few. Those most affected cheer each time another tract of land is "protected" tightening the snare on their own demise. A quarter million homeless in Canada with 1000 deaths each month. A major issue in this country is the vast expanse between cities, but no land may be spared for housing. Organized protest in an effort to save a grove of trees meets each attempted use of land, yet 895,000,000 acres of forest extend all the way from the West Coast to the East Coast.
This artificially created land shortage serves the purpose of financial institutions, but costs consumers from five to above twenty times the normal price of a home. For each $100,000 of market price, if land is $20,000 and the building is $80,000 lenders will not advance funds beyond the value of the indestructible portion, which is the land, itself. A deliberately restricted supply caused prices to skyrocket with the cost of the building and the cost of land exchanging places in the equation. Now, for each $100,000 spent on a home the building accounts for $20,000 of the purchase price and land makes up the remainder, which is $80,000. Banks lend an amount that matches the indestructible portion of the acquisition, which is land. In an ironical twist this arrangement enables buyers to finance their purchase by paying several times the normal cost of a home.
Canada produces cereal crops and livestock that are its staples, which are grown some distance from cities. We have highways and railways to haul in these products. This country also produces some fruit and vegetables during a relatively short growing season. The reality is that 95% of the food that we consume arrives from or through the USA. Major retailers are not going to snub reliable suppliers in order to acquire local produce for a few weeks each year. That has not kept land from being declared "agricultural" in an effort to prevent its use for housing and that has inspired movements to place a halt on the use of _all_ land. In order to save land for agriculture, forest land should be made available on which to construct homes. Legislation and regulations have severely restricted the home building and home improvement industries, the two industries for which we are admirably suited with our abundance of land, lumber, stone, minerals and other material. We have skyrocketing property prices preventing people from becoming established and a growing gulf between property owners and the remainder that cannot be bridged with any amount of effort.
Housing has been turned into an unregulated financial paper market, with public officials that personally benefit at the expense of citizens, setting conditions to constrain supply that results in monopoly prices, with rent at maximum levels and home ownership beyond reach.
*Footnotes:*
¹ A result of this cunning _sleight of hand_ is that purchasers make a down payment of $200,000 and finance the remaining $800,000 for a home that should only cost $200,000 to begin with if it were not for a deliberately restricted supply that caused prices to escalate to absurd levels.
² Cities were built on fertile flood plains at the confluence of rivers. Halting use of land beyond these areas that were developed a century earlier does nothing to enhance agricultural production, while astronomical price levels make this land unfeasible for growing crops.
³ Average price of a home in Vancouver in 1969 was $23,939. In Winnipeg $13,588. That equals $23,939/$7284 = 3.3 years salary in Vancouver of a new degree holder or $13,588/$7284 = 1.9 years salary in Winnipeg.
¹³ Civic governments reap a bonanza from inflated property assessments.