This bill is an…

This bill is an environmental disaster. We should not be building on wetlands and environmentally sensitive land during a climate crisis. We should not be paving over agricultural land during a period of food insecurity. This is incredibly short sighted.

Access to AFFORDABLE housing can be accomplished by multiple methods

- Increasing density in existing urban areas that currently have an over-abundance of single family homes
- Converting unused office buildings into affordable housing. Incentives to businesses to encourage the Work From Home business model is good for the environment and will free up real estate for housing.
- Taking over existing investment properties that sit empty for more than a certain amount of time. (Say 2 years) This can be managed by the municipalities and would be a lot cheaper than building new affordable housing.
- Encouraging lane-way housing and "granny flats".
- Restrictions on AirB&B and short term rentals in favour of long-term housing
- Economic incentives to increase house sizes by building up or otherwise increasing the housing capacity of single family homes or existing small apartment buildings. (I would build another floor on my house and rent it out if the government provided an incentive to do so! In a heartbeat!)

This bill will sacrifice precious green land to promote single family developments, and we need affordable housing urgently. It is short sighted to sacrifice the Greenbelt to build a few houses that will only benefit the minority of rich investors & developers.