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Originally Posted by blankall
It's also bizarre that working people can't afford houses in London, Ontario. This isn't central Toronto. The government needs to facilitate more housing construction. This is a national emergency at this point. A city like London is surrounding by nothing, but insufficient construction is happening due to all the red tape. Their city website says the plan is to grow upwards, because they are concerned about preserving farmland. There's nowhere else in player in the province to farm than just outside the city limits of a growing city. How long can they keep up the fake land scarcity issue in Canada? It's absurd.
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That part of Ontario has some of the richest soil and most productive farmland in Canada. You can’t just replace its agricultural capacity with new farmland up in the Canadian shield. You can say the same about the Fraser Valley. People first settled to farm in those areas because of the soil and climate. We can’t just turn all that land into suburbs.
The problem is too many people want to live in already highly dense regions of the country, and they want/expect to live in detached homes when they start families. Canada’s rate of population growth is almost twice that of other G7 countries, but that growth is almost all in parts of the country that are becoming as densely populated as the Netherlands or Belgium.