Canada Frees Up Public Lands to Tackle Housing Shortage
ca.finance.yahoo.com
(Bloomberg) -- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government identified 56 federal properties, representing the size of about 2,000 hockey rinks, where hundreds of new affordable homes could be built to counter the scarcity of available land worsening a housing shortage.Most Read from BloombergSydney Central Train Station Is Now an Architectural DestinationNazi Bunker’s Leafy Makeover Turns Ugly Past Into Urban EyecatcherChicago Overcomes DNC Skeptics With Calm, Parties and SunHow the Cortiços of S
  • Sundial@lemm.ee
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    1 month ago

    representing the size of about 2,000 hockey rinks

    HAH, love the Canadian version of America’s “measuring in terms of football fields”.

    The article doesn’t say where they are grabbing the land from? Federal parks? Also, it’s going to be years before we see any kind of effect from this decision. Assuming the conservatives don’t just rip this up the second they get into government.