This proposal to develop…

This proposal to develop designated green space is short-sighted. Will it allow more suburban homes to be built - of course. That is a numbers game. Will it provide more affordable housing - No. It will provide more high priced suburban houses with access to a greatly reduced greenspace.
This destruction of green space compromises the promise of maintaining green corridors for the future for the sake of a few headlines that make it appear that the government is doing something about housing.
1. Green spaces and corridors need to be protected for future generations.
2. More suburban homes will fundamentally not make accommodations more affordable. Higher interest rates have already increased the housing supply and brought down housing prices. The government is late to this party.
3. Affordable housing should not mean houses. Headlines should refer to affordable accommodation. We need more apartment buildings.
4. Air B&Bs and the equivalent have cut into available rentals. Crack down on this and you improve available accommodation and increase tax revenue from undeclared income.
5. Improve Landlord/tenant regulations to support both. Unsupported landlords stop being landlords. This spirals the housing issue and pushes potential landlords to short-term rentals.
6. Green space. The environment. Ontario can do better. We criticize other countries for cutting down forests (Brazil and the Amazon for example) but we refuse to focus the lens inward on our own environmental atrocities.