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Originally Posted by bizaro86
This train of thought is exactly how we ended up with a housing affordability crisis, which has exacerbated homelessness and caused all sorts of other issues.
We're nice Canadians and not anti-immigrant so we let in lots of people.
But we don't want to expand the cities they want to live in into the outlying areas, so we pass laws to protect farmland/Greenspace.
Then we're surprised that after we've restricted the supply of something and juiced the demand for it the price goes way up.
I think there's a moral argument that Canada needs to take immigrants, especially from places like Ukraine and Afghanistan lately. But that should require us to also build enough new housing units for people to live in. IMO the only way that's possible is with significant upzoning and physical expansion of the size of our cities. Maybe we could build some new cities as well, although I think the historical record for planned new cities is quite poor.
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I'm confused by that. Which train of thought? That would should consider environmental and resource limiting factors to growth, beyond chasing GDP?
I'm just saying the environment has limiting factors to growth, and ignoring those for growth will just lead to more problems with tough solutions.