EDITORIAL: Slammed if you build housing, damned if you don't

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While the feds get the plaudits for an enlightened immigration policy, the provinces are handed smack-downs when they try to accommodate these newcomers. And if an older building is slated to be demolished to make way for housing, the same critics will declare that building a “heritage” site, no matter how ugly or decrepit it is. Not everything old is historic. Every time someone’s favourite golf club is turned into housing, there are cries of anguish.

 

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not a housing shortage there is a major shortage of Single housing aka 1br apt if you look at every major city in Ontario u will find that more family homes are being converted into Multi rentals then new family homes are being built thus the so called Housing shortage

U call this houseing? Cartons ...

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