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Originally Posted by blender
There's a difference between existing houses for sale and building a new house. If the subdivision is in and serviced, fine, but as a means to significantly increase supply, building in the hinterlands isn't viable. That is what I thought you were arguing, so if I missed your point, apologies.
Also, Calgary is one example of a place that is surrounded by land suitable for building, but that doesn't exist in places like Toronto, Lower Mainland, etc. Not comparable.
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Toronto and the lower mainland both have huge amounts of green zone/agricultural reserve land on their outskirts that would almost instantly develop into a huge amount of new housing supply if the government restrictions on that change were removed.