Just had to post this, with pride. So Jyoti Gondek defended her vote in the Calgary Herald the other day, comments were not positive. (Of course, all Postmedia comments reveal that they are about 50% actual Trump fans...)
Here was my comment:
Roy Brander 1 day ago
Conservative columnist Jen Gerson wrote that "Nobody will Fix Housing", in a famous article a few years back. And it's because the majority (already housed) profit from the high prices.
Everybody wanted housing fixed, but nobody wanted to take the risk of lowering the value of houses.
You did so, and will now be ritually slaughtered by angry NIMBYs, but somebody had to bell the cat.
Thank you for your service.
Got a new personal best: 20 "thumbs down". Also, one "thumbs up". I wonder who the other SFD apostate is.
Thanks for taking the time to post your comment! It's very rare to see someone change their mind publicly in response to Internet comments - but there's lots of people who read them and never post.
My friends and relatives in Calgary are scandalized and vengeful. I wondered why that mayor got elected with a plurality in all 14 wards? All these rotten council were elected - did they not warn their voters they'd vote for rezoning?
I went looking for platforms, news stories from the campaign about debates, and I couldn't find a MENTION of "housing" problems or solutions. Nope! Not a topic! As recently as 2021, it wasn't on Calgary's radar.
So, they elected that council on other topics, but were horrified when they turned on Calgary's (vast majority of) SFD owners.
It's a pathetic whine: I was able to use my GIS skills and water-system data to map all the water services in Calgary since 2000: http://brander.ca/CalgaryC21.png
... in blue, all the new single services, a thick ring, around the city, a few rebuilds in the middle.
... in red, "duplex" services that include all the thousands of infills that you CAN build in Calgary, doubling the number of houses on hundreds of blocks where you see a lot of red dots.
...which is about all that will happen. There just haven't been that many 4-plexes built in Vancouver; the density will mostly come from 2-plexes of various kinds: duplexes, infills.
The council is probably toast, of course; they should be thanked for their service and making the hard choice.
Just had to post this, with pride. So Jyoti Gondek defended her vote in the Calgary Herald the other day, comments were not positive. (Of course, all Postmedia comments reveal that they are about 50% actual Trump fans...)
Here was my comment:
Roy Brander 1 day ago
Conservative columnist Jen Gerson wrote that "Nobody will Fix Housing", in a famous article a few years back. And it's because the majority (already housed) profit from the high prices.
Everybody wanted housing fixed, but nobody wanted to take the risk of lowering the value of houses.
You did so, and will now be ritually slaughtered by angry NIMBYs, but somebody had to bell the cat.
Thank you for your service.
Got a new personal best: 20 "thumbs down". Also, one "thumbs up". I wonder who the other SFD apostate is.
Thanks for taking the time to post your comment! It's very rare to see someone change their mind publicly in response to Internet comments - but there's lots of people who read them and never post.
My friends and relatives in Calgary are scandalized and vengeful. I wondered why that mayor got elected with a plurality in all 14 wards? All these rotten council were elected - did they not warn their voters they'd vote for rezoning?
I went looking for platforms, news stories from the campaign about debates, and I couldn't find a MENTION of "housing" problems or solutions. Nope! Not a topic! As recently as 2021, it wasn't on Calgary's radar.
So, they elected that council on other topics, but were horrified when they turned on Calgary's (vast majority of) SFD owners.
It's a pathetic whine: I was able to use my GIS skills and water-system data to map all the water services in Calgary since 2000: http://brander.ca/CalgaryC21.png
... in blue, all the new single services, a thick ring, around the city, a few rebuilds in the middle.
... in red, "duplex" services that include all the thousands of infills that you CAN build in Calgary, doubling the number of houses on hundreds of blocks where you see a lot of red dots.
...which is about all that will happen. There just haven't been that many 4-plexes built in Vancouver; the density will mostly come from 2-plexes of various kinds: duplexes, infills.
The council is probably toast, of course; they should be thanked for their service and making the hard choice.