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Originally Posted by esquire
^ There was an article in the Free Press last month, can't remember the specifics, but it spoke to the idea that housing starts were significantly below where they should be in light of population growth and that there was a housing crunch looming. These new population figures would seem to support that.
It would be nice to see that new housing spread out around the city including the older parts, and not just concentrated all in the outer suburbs with a smattering in Osborne Village/Fort Rouge.
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Well permit activity is down 10% and construction of units is down a ridiculous 30%.
How do we have such a substantial decline in construction within a year when last year we were stagnant and this year we are essentially booming? I'm gonna assume inflation has played a big role in that. Although if we keep growing at this rate at some point the city will have no other option then to densify the old neighbourhoods and Downtown.
Burrows, Inkster, Jubilee, Corydon, Academy, Ness, Kildare, Warde, and Leila are just a few examples of streets that could use immediate densification just because of their proximity too services. All it needs is too replace a few single-family homes and add some moderate density on these roads.
What they're doing on St. Mary's and St. Anne's should be replicated everywhere in the city that has potential to be a high street. The transformation those 2 streets have had this last decade is remarkable, and all it took was replacing a few single-family houses with low rise apartments and first floor commercial fronting the street.