There is a shortage of…

There is a shortage of trades. Your act means houses built quickly and on the cheap by unqualified workers in environmentally sensitive areas. These houses will be garbage in no time - 10-15 years and the damage will have been done to the environments they were built in.

Who’s going to buy these houses? Young people who can’t afford them? Are they going to be big suburban spreads that swallow up a lot of energy?

Within a one block radius of where I live, there are 9 houses that were bought by developers to “intensify”. All of these houses have now been vacant anywhere from 3 months to three years, and there is no plan to develop the spaces any time soon because of the shortage of qualified trades and because the developers don’t like the current interest rates (which are still lower than when I bought a house 20 years ago). All of these properties were liveable until the developers bought them and cut the power so that no one can live there. That’s at least 9 families that have been put out of housing. Instead, let’s build in sensitive areas when the province, municipalities and developers can’t even manage housing in downtown cores. Is there some sort of racket going on where developers buy downtown properties, sit on them to cause a housing shortage, then cry to the government that they need more land to build on?

A reckless solution by the current government of Ontario. It’s going to be the children of reckless politicians who will bear the brunt of environmental degradation and climate change - them, and other kids growing up in this shortsighted and ignorant province.