Edmontonian here!
This is just a conservative Provincial govt sticking it to one of the TWO MAIN left leaning cities because we’re going to vote them out
Also the provincial govt is under 6(7?) active RCMP investigations for corruption, money laundering, conflicts of intrest, foreign bribery and gifts, etc.
By provincial fiat, Edmonton must revert within three months to 2024 zoning rules that restrict anything but single-family homes in wide swaths of the city
Only millionaires that can afford to buy a huge plot of land with only one building on it are allowed to have a home i guess?
It’s almost as if rich speculating landlords captured the govt or something
It‘s insane. Members of the German government are proposing to change the law so the city of Berlin can‘t force for-profit renting companies to sell their assets to the city to stop exploding rents. Their reasoning to intervene in perfectly legal city politics? It could scare foreign investors! They literally want to sell out housing in Germany so some dickheads in other parts of the world can fill their pockets even more with our money. Insanity!
Yeah, fuck that noise. What we’re seeing in NL instead is the pension funds are getting into a landlord business. I am actually okay with that kinda circular economy.
So, they built shitty housing then?
We regulate housing for a reason. Safety, affordability, density, and good urban planning.
Zoning laws largely make no direct difference to the safety of structures built
No. Why would you say that?
Because that’s what happens when you have less regulation. See cities hit by hurricanes and earthquakes and floods and fires
Good regulations on new housing slows developments, but saves lives and prevents hoards of homeless folks
My question was why did you assume they made shitty houses? Why did you assume they got rid of regulations? Neither of these things were suggested even remotely in the article.
Also I don’t know where you got the idea that good regulation on homes slows down development. What we have is the exact opposite. Which is poor regulation which leads to shitty homes. And bad zoning laws which slows down development. Are you equating zoning laws and regulation? Do you think those are the same thing? Cuz they’re not.
North America tends to suffer this problem the most. Large, populated cities tend to be under-represented in provencial/state government. And then the rural, aerogel density parts dictate terms to the urban, tungsten density parts. Takes a lot less effort to convince some rural voters (who trend xenophobic and bigoted) to vote for you to capture power, than it is to deal with a plurality in a dense urban environment. Seems like more large cities should tell their next level government up to fuck off.
And then the rural, aerogel density parts dictate terms to the urban, tungsten density parts.
While benefiting from the wealthier urban areas’ tax money and complaining that the opposite of these things is happening.
