I think the tack we must take is that after getting out of social housing over a generation ago, we've given the free market system ample opportunity to prove it could do better, and its done much worse.
I don't know whether the blame speculators or foreigners or what - the free market normally works to provide needed goods(!) - but if *everybody* is too dumb to just see the problem and solve it, then I'm for the social housing construction.
Vancouver says the industry is about to lay people off - the office staff today, the constructors tomorrow as the current projects end - let's plan ahead to hire them for public projects as they are freed up.
I think the tack we must take is that after getting out of social housing over a generation ago, we've given the free market system ample opportunity to prove it could do better, and its done much worse.
I don't know whether the blame speculators or foreigners or what - the free market normally works to provide needed goods(!) - but if *everybody* is too dumb to just see the problem and solve it, then I'm for the social housing construction.
Vancouver says the industry is about to lay people off - the office staff today, the constructors tomorrow as the current projects end - let's plan ahead to hire them for public projects as they are freed up.