The fight over new housing permissions is ultimately a fight for the future. The strategies and tactics proposed for that fight are critical and should be critically considered, as are the conviction and will of the fighter.
The priority today must be to unblock the restrictions at all levels of government that prevent our private sector from building. That’s it. In many cases, those restrictions come packaged in policies called “green standards” or “sustainable design requirements”, but these all add up to more bureaucracy, more costs, and fewer units of housing getting built.
It’s difficult to see how Israel could settle on a written constitution amid the current turmoil. If the Court invalidates Netanyahu’s reforms, as it is widely rumoured to be inclined to do, it’s difficult to see how Israeli society will recover from the crisis.
After decades of maintaining a relatively harmonious balance between high levels of immigration and social welfare, Canada finally appears to be at the precipice of the Sophie’s Choice-esque dilemma that has long plagued other Western societies.
When it comes to the housing market, demand matters as much as supply. Indicating to the market that demand via population growth will be lower for the foreseeable future would lower shelter prices today and is a win.
Capitalism may not be the best moral ideal, but it’s the best workaround given our natural but limited capacity for compassion and evolutionary instincts. Unfortunately, it’s a lesson every generation enamoured of socialism has to learn.
Discarding an established and functional energy-delivery system and replacing it in a few short years with something completely new in order to achieve “net zero” is fraught with risk and enormous expense.
The key to an effective housing strategy is speed. The federal government must avoid setting up new approvals processes and micromanaging the system.
Barstool Sports is one of the most successful entertainment platforms in the internet age. It’s popularity, particularly among young men, signals a growing shift in how many are engaging with politics and culture.
Housing shortages impact many of the most pressing problems in the Western world, including declining fertility, endemic chronic illness, brutal inequality, climate catastrophe, sluggish productivity, and slow growth.
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