Experts say housing precarity can lead to stress in romantic relationships and additional responsibilities for children while their parents work extra jobs to make ends meet.
As households buckle under the weight of rent and mortgage payments, Murtaza Haider says municipalities have a responsibility to be part of the solution to the ongoing housing crisis.Tackling housing as costs skyrocket
Federal Housing Minister Sean Fraser says that some of their programs are already making a difference. Well, I think, in the short term, there will be very little difference that they'll be able to make. But ... these problems are five decades in making. So it would take some time to address these. I think the minister was right in saying that there is no silver bullet. However, those steps that they are taking now, they could have taken them five, eight years earlier and they didn't.
The senior tiers of government, the province and the feds, may have to take away some of the local government jurisdiction on the supply of land that would act as a barrier to growing or densify neighbourhoods., that you can't have four units built at a place where there was one unit. And then you have other places that do not allow construction at the urban periphery.
Murtaza Haider says that homes aren't being built quick enough to keep up with need, despite new government programs. I like the fact that we can be collaborative between the three tiers of government rather than taking away jurisdictions from cities or municipal governments. But someone at the city has to wake up and realize that this is as much a local challenge as it is a national challenge.
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