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It's interesting to perspectives from elsewhere. The Netherlands is also facing a housing crisis, and they're also talking about significant increases in construction. Part of that will be to limit local control.

Interestingly, they're also talking about changing the type of construction: fewer rooms.

There isn't quite enough context to explain why that would help, but it's something I haven't really heard politicians saying here in Canada.

What changes would you make to speed up housing growth here?

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[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I understood your text as saying that we should flood the areas close to transit with studio apartments. If that's the type of accomodation that's mostly available close to transit that would make it so that families (who tend to need multiple bedroom apartments) would not have enough options close to transit.

[–] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

There's a ton of space next to transit, adding even hundreds of these buildings across a city wouldn't limit regular apartments in the same areas at all.

We also don't tend to tear down apartment buildings that already exist very often.