How Urban Renewal Ruined Everything ( darrellowens.substack.com )
[article] Eliminating 'parking minimums' helped U.S. cities. Could it work here? | CBC ( www.cbc.ca )
Ottawa recently announced they’re considering removing their mandatory parking minimums. For context, parking minimums are extremely arbitrary, based on pseudoscience, and are a key barrier to housing development.
[article] Opinion: Lowering Canada’s high housing costs is also a recipe for raising our notoriously low productivity ( www.theglobeandmail.com )
Non-paywall link: archive.is/J2cSo...
Pa. zoning laws are strangling home construction, and lawmakers want changes ( www.inquirer.com )
New Chair Leads ‘YIMBY’ Wave at Manhattan Community Board 5 ( commercialobserver.com )
[article] Vancouver's new mega-development is big, ambitious and undeniably Indigenous - Macleans.ca ( macleans.ca )
[meme] And lots of public transit investment ( lemmy.world )
[meme] Parking minimums in a nutshell: ( lemmy.world )
[article] How NIMBYs are helping to turn the public against immigrants | Vox ( www.vox.com )
I’ve seen this in Canada waaaay too much. Instead of rightfully directing their anger at screwed-up land use restrictions and a draconian zoning code, people who are normally pro-immigration are rapidly turning anti-immigrant because of the housing crisis.
[article] Why State Land Use Reform Should Be a Priority Climate Lever for America ( rmi.org )
New analysis from RMI finds that by encouraging better-located, less car-dependent communities, we can solve the nationwide housing shortage while dramatically cutting pollution.
[article] The hottest trend in U.S. cities? Changing zoning rules to allow more housing | NPR ( www.npr.org )
[article] 'I was elected to slow down development,' Pointe-Claire mayor tells Poilievre | Montreal Gazette ( montrealgazette.com )
For reference, Pointe-Claire is right next to a new automated light metro station, so blocking housing there is doubly harmful, as it sabotages the potential ridership of a brand new rapid transit system.
