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Ontario government's Greenbelt land swap influenced by well-connected developers, AG finds (www.cbc.ca)
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Developers could see an $8B increase to value of land now open for housing development, report finds

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[โ€“] RehRomano 24 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

The very obvious solution to our housing crisis, the one almost literally every other country on earth would do, is to upzone our cities contained in the greenbelt. To say those cities are full and swap out greenbelt land is criminally negligent. Sprawl will cost us not only in upkeep but in the environmental devastation.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Exactly. The solution to the housing problem is not sprawling detached homes, plazas, and traffic jams for as long as the eye can see. Rather than make the hard choices and enforcing density in the GTA, he gave a bunch of land to his buddy big developers. But since this is Ontario and the political opposition is weak I'm sure next to nothing will come of this.