Given the current…

Given the current demographic changes, and the decline in birth rates worldwide, it seems likely that after baby boomers age out of their jobs, they will also age out of their homes, creating more availability of single family housing. Rather than expanding into valuable farmland and conservation areas, it would make sense in the interim, to build up rather than out. To build affordable housing for young families close to work and transit, especially as the cost of transportation/commuting is becoming formidable. And to expand and develop services and housing for seniors, which most likely will need to be assistive, communal and high density, and also close to services and transit. I have an uneasy feeling that Doug Ford’s government is catering to the the needs and interests of developers, rather than the constituents it is supposed to serve. The rights of municipalities to preserve and enhance the quality of living in their own areas, with which they are familiar, should be protected, as should the right of community members to appeal decisions about development.