avidamoeba,
@avidamoeba@lemmy.ca avatar

Personally I think countless 3-5 storey steel-concrete multi-unit buildings are preferable from density, comfort (sound and heat insulation) and durability standpoint.

Splitdipless,

We need more of building for the middle, like the Barbican in the UK. youtu.be/FFDpqRxym_A?feature=shared

Tippon,

We call them terraced houses, and just to clarify, they’ve been around for a lot longer than that.

I’ve got records of my family living in a terraced house in the 1881 census, and possibly earlier :)

christopherius,
christopherius avatar

There are a few in my city. Not sure how affordable they are though. I don't plan on buying a house

Nouveau_Burnswick,

Canada went with “victory houses” we built about a million units 1942-48.

BCsven,

My grandparents had a council house in the UK, thankfully the allotmemt was just an extended back garden/yard. It was affordable housing for a family of 8.

Guns4Gnus,

Yeah, we had that here in Canada too, until the PCs and Libs killed it in the 1980s.

Before Mulroney pulled it, the CMHC would actively invest in housing start ups.

Frederic,

I think we still have them in Quebec, called “maison de ville”, they are in rows and you have like a 30’x20’ as a backyard.

corsicanguppy,

Doesn’t sound like the libs core m-o. Maybe, like this pipeline fiasco, they were convinced it would make the PCs their friends, and it failed as miserably then too?

nueonetwo,

Cons under Mulroney began the cuts to social spending to balance the books, libs under Chretien finished it off.

The idea was that the government shouldn’t have a hand in housing and it should be left to the free market.

nicktron,
nicktron avatar

No, the idea was that the federal government should keep their noses out of it and let the provinces handle it, much like healthcare.

Guns4Gnus,

And we’ve all seen since then that the provinces won’t do a damn thing if they don’t have a fire lit under their asses.

See: Carbon offset taxes.

Steeve,

Back when the government arbitrarily decided that every public service must make positive income or be cut.

The 80s were fueled by cocaine and revenue.

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