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Originally Posted by GGG
I agree that people moving away is a challenge to overcome but we already have density requirements for neighbourhoods to stratify incomes in neighborhoods. The concept is already being applied.
Again your comment of one unit sunk a building is in a scenario where people had the option to move to a building without this issue. When all buildings share a small amount of the issue and buildings are dispersed throughout neighbourhoods you limit the ability to escape.
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Density requirements and addiction requirements are quite different, and I agree income stratification is a good thing. Having poor neighbours isn't an issue for the vast majority of people, because having lower income doesn't make you a bad neighbour.
Meth addicts, whether detoxing or relapsing are bad neighbours in a whole host of ways. People will always have the option to move, and anyone who can manage it will. There are plenty of single family houses out there (and that idea would make them less affordable). Having gone through this (not even as a resident, just a condo owner) people will find somewhere else to live - a building built before the mandate, a basement suite, or even move cities.
This would make new construction multi-family the least desirable built form for people to live in, which has negative ramifications because that's the type of housing we should be encouraging.