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TVO Today | Ontario’s housing dystopia is an utter scandal (www.tvo.org)

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OPINION: A new report calculates how much you’d have to make per hour to afford rent. The result is an indictment of all levels of government

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Honestly, it's more than just the municipal governments, but all the homeowner associantions. They're the ones who lobbied for such things, and they're the ones blocking positive changes on the rare occasion when the councils actually try to improve things.

NiMBY is a menace for land usage of all forms, not just housing.