Compromising the green belt…

Compromising the green belt in order to build more housing is a false choice. Instead of catering to developers, Ontario should be focused on building housing for the people without any housing, namely - the homeless.
It’s just disgusting to see, in this wealthy province, people living in tents and sleeping bags. At the same time, wealthy developers, many of whom, never worked a real job in their life, skimming millions by building more unaffordable housing for the higher class, who have no shortage of housing.

What the majority of people in Ontario really need, are human scale, low rise neighborhoods, with mixed zoning and limited car access. With small, local commercial operations on the first floor. So anyone can meet all their basic needs (groceries, medical services, childcare etc.) within a 10 minute walk.
There are great examples of such neighborhoods all around the world, but we can’t leave it to the for profit developers, because they are not concerned with walkability, livability or homelessness. All they really care about is profit, as this is their job. Low income housing had mixed success in the real world, but more often than not, it was compromised and hindered by external economic forces. Yet, examples of great neighborhoods are still here. The Bain co-op for example, needs to be visited and explored by our MPPs as a model for future, planed low income Neighborhoods, with the goal of meeting the needs of our most volnurabe citizens. Instead of meeting the luxuries of greedy developers.
Somehow, Greedy, sleazy developers always manage to get their rezoning, and make make lots of money without lifting.a finger. At the same time, a private group of volunteer builders, are building tiny homes in Peterborough exclusively for the homeless, but they can’t get the permits and rezoning they need, because they didn’t contribute financially to Doug Ford’s election. This legalized corruption is disgusting and hopefully will be criminally prosecuted in the near future.