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Upzoning New Zealand - Works in Progress (worksinprogress.co)
submitted 1 year ago by SkepticalButOpenMinded to c/canada
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This is a really great long form article about the efforts to upzone New Zealand, one of the only countries going through an even worse housing crisis than Canada. There's a lot to learn here about the political challenges of implementing good urban planning strategy.

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[–] SkepticalButOpenMinded 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The quick upshot: upzoning worked to lower prices. But there's been a political backlash against the most ambitious country wide reforms, and a lot of forward thinking policies are now at risk of being reversed.

BC is the only province that has been doing similar things, especially recently with province wide zoning reforms. (Not coincidentally, BC is one of the only provinces with a progressive government in the country.) There's a lot of political buy in at the moment in BC, including municipal government support, but I'm worried about how the homeowner class will react when the policies actually start taking effect.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

BC is one of the only provinces with a progressive government in the country

I thought there might have been one or two more, but it's just Manitoba who finished their election pretty recently.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_Canadian_first_ministers

[–] SkepticalButOpenMinded 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The provinces across Canada have been surprisingly conservative for a while. Even supposedly left leaning BC went through 16 years of a conservative government until just relatively recently in 2017. All while conservative governments have endured scandals, mismanagement, limp economies, and chronic underfunding of healthcare and housing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

As someone from BC I'm painfully aware of the recent BC Liberal era. Although the Horgan NDP's wasn't exactly hitting out the park and bungling voting reform could really bite them in the ass.