Affordable housing needs to…

Affordable housing needs to consider poor people as well as those able to afford market rates. It also needs to consider the needs of renters, whether they are renting temporarily or will never own real estate.
Co-ops, affordable housing, housing-geared-to-income are all important components.
Initiatives such as Co-housing are not necessarily less expensive, but offer a way for people to live in a community and share some amenities. They can be helpful to families with small children and older adults looking for ways to age in place.
It's important to think of housing as a component of community, not just as an investment or an accomplishment. Bringing community into the planning and decision making process can help people to envision and be proud of changes to the standard ways we have build housing in the past.

I am wary of the increasing concentration of power in the hands of provincial politicians, and the ways in which that power is being used to override livable community planning.