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How NIMBYs and Bad Priorities Undermine Affordable Housing

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Is it possible that NIMBY's are becoming the boogeyman for housing availability issues?
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The forum should have an ongoing thread for posts that contain no article, no commentary, and consist of nothing but a video. You know, some sort of "City Discussions Video Thread" thread or something.
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Is it possible that NIMBY's are becoming the boogeyman for housing availability issues?
Well they are the leading force against more building supply
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I like this channel, but their analysis is off. Their points are generally valid, but:

1. The costs for delay go far beyond interest rates and construction-price escalation. Design, land-holding costs, and many other costs are involved. These are big costs collectively.

2. In mixed-income developments, the subsidy for affordable units doesn't come from the "developer profits" on the market-rate units. It comes because citywide rents reset to cover the typical extra costs. Profitability stays in the same range, because that's necessary to get financed.
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Well they are the leading force against more building supply

The leading force against building more supply (at least in Canada right now) is capacity. There is only so much labour & material available at any given time. Even if we approved high-rises for every single available lot in Toronto or Vancouver, we wouldn't actually be able to build them in real life.
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The leading force against building more supply (at least in Canada right now) is capacity. There is only so much labour & material available at any given time. Even if we approved high-rises for every single available lot in Toronto or Vancouver, we wouldn't actually be able to build them in real life.
Indeed. Which makes it even more egregious that a large proportion of what's being built are filing cabinet towers targeted towards investors.

I do roll my eyes when aerial images of Toronto are posted and people freak out about all the lowrises, as if those neighbourhoods would be redeveloped into human-scaled missing middle overnight if all restrictions were removed.
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Old Posted Mar 31, 2023, 8:39 PM
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Indeed. Which makes it even more egregious that a large proportion of what's being built are filing cabinet towers targeted towards investors.

I do roll my eyes when aerial images of Toronto are posted and people freak out about all the lowrises, as if those neighbourhoods would be redeveloped into human-scaled missing middle overnight if all restrictions were removed.
Currently all the areas of Toronto where higher densities are allowed are seeing sizable development. The same would happen to any more land, currently zoned for single family housing, that became available for higher densities.

Even is this restrictive zoning environment, developers still propose higher densities projects in areas that the city has tried to stop higher densities.

In any case the legislative momentum at both the province and city level are moving to being less restrictive on zoning as every year, more rules to allow more housing in the GTA are created.
If we ever ban exclusive SFH in the yellow belt the city would change dramatically in 15 years.
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