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'This is egregious': Sisters shocked when Toronto landlord raises rent to $9,500 a month (toronto.ctvnews.ca)
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The landlord had told them he wanted to raise the rent to $3,500 and when they complained he decided to raise it to $9,500.

“We know that our building is not rent controlled and this was something we were always worried about happening and there is no way we can afford $9,500 per month," Yumna Farooq said.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Uh, part of the point of the greenbelt is to stop building detached houses because they're actually environmentally quite bad. I mean maybe individuals could work together to put together a co-op but Housing Now TO says that municipal governments generally block any of those that would pencil out.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I wanted to build a duplex but "zoning laws" say that wasn't allowed, only single family detached houses with at least X amount of land.

Most zoning laws are serious bullshit and work as defacto segregation to keep the dirty ~~brown~~ poor people away from the nice good rich folk. It's why suburban school is a totally different things from poor urban school.

Zoning laws are why developers in LA can't afford to build anything other than luxury condos. Land is literally too expensive to build. As an example: a requirement to have at least X parking spots per X units, even when it's built right next to a metro and a bus depot and you're building low income housing for people who are less likely to own cars in the first place.

Too many NIBYs whining about things.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

part of the point of the greenbelt is to stop building detached houses because they’re actually environmentally quite bad.

If we're being honest, all housing is environmentally bad. And not just environmentally bad, but bad for society in general. A necessary evil for the individual, perhaps, but it stands to reason that they should carry a high cost to account for the negative externalities they place on everyone else.