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Maybe if cities didn't waste so much space for car parking and ridiculous house regulations, there wouldn't be a crisit at all. I mean, let's build houses closer together, more densely. It does not even need to be a mega condo tower. It can still be single family house. It just need to be a bit more dense.
Cars are really fucking us up big time. There is SO much space wasted for personal cars that we don't even have space for people.
Stop building parking lots and start building 3 to 5 story building.
Yep. My first house was in Acton Ont. It was a "war time house" that was built to house returning vets after the war. They just don't build houses like that anymore. 2-3 bedrooms (small enough that a king size bed won't fit in the largest), 1 bathroom, a kitchen/dining area, and a living room. That's it. You walk in the front door into the living room. There should be a mandate in place that forces developers that a certain percent of new developments (say.....75%?) cost LESS than $300K. Instead they are making these huge McMansions, with a patio bug enough for a BBQ as a backyard, and they cram as many as they can in. They're not building communities. They are making horizontal condos and selling them for over $!M. each.