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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Did you bother to read the comment I was responding to?
People aged 20-50 aren’t moving away from the house and yard model. They desperately want detached homes, and they’re willing to pay an extraordinary premium - in money, commute time, etc - to own them.
I understand the reasoning behind densification. But advocates need to stop deluding themselves that they’re offering Canadians a housing model they really want. The hundreds of articles and think pieces from a decade ago predicting that Millennials were going to transform cities by eschewing the suburban lifestyle and choosing to stay in dense inner-city neighbourhoods proved to be woefully mistaken.
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I disagree pretty strongly with your report. Firstly, the number of people having children and the size of families in Canada is rapidly declining. As someone who did not have children until a few months ago, I can say that I had zero desire for a detached home until I had children. The same was true of just about everyone I knew without children.
As for Calgary specifically, there is massive demand for the new townhouses in the Altadore area. Mostly from small families. Quite frankly, I think a lot of people would prefer a townhouse with a foot top patio over a detached garage. I can't comment on how this will affect Calgary's craft wood working industry.
If you're telling me there is simply no demand for a townhouse that's walking distance from a bunch of bars, restaurants, and other forms of entertainment and also a very short commute from downtown, I'm telling you that I don't believe you.