It’s interesting to perspectives from elsewhere. The Netherlands is also facing a housing crisis, and they’re also talking about significant increases in construction. Part of that will be to limit local control.
Interestingly, they’re also talking about changing the type of construction: fewer rooms.
There isn’t quite enough context to explain why that would help, but it’s something I haven’t really heard politicians saying here in Canada.
What changes would you make to speed up housing growth here?
There’s a ton of space next to transit, adding even hundreds of these buildings across a city wouldn’t limit regular apartments in the same areas at all.
We also don’t tend to tear down apartment buildings that already exist very often.