Canadians are already starkly moving away from single detached homes. In 1997 the marginal share of single detached homes in Alberta was 80%, in 2007 it was 65%. Similarly for apartments their marginal share was 10% of new homes, it's now 25%.
So the market is clearly making movement toward densification or attached homes. This isn't social engineering.
Ultimately though cities are the progeny of policy and decision making we shouldn't act like that hasn't always been the case. Now we have a more sophisticated lens to understand the consequences of the decisions we make.
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