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How Vancouver made affordability illegal (www.straight.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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When it comes to addressing the housing crisis, few people think about zoning. The correlation isn’t easily apparent, despite this being the most powerful tool cities have.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think it's easy to forget communities like this one, twitter, or even city-related subreddits are still very, very small fractions of the general population. People I talk to outside these bubbles are shocked to learn it's practically illegal to build an apartment in 80% of the land in Vancouver and Toronto, or the further implications on affordability.