We need better infill policies.

My fear is that we’re going to have huge amounts of federal funding coming in to municipalities to build massive swaths of suburban sprawl in the name of additional housing, putting more fuel on the fire that is car dependence.

Even new developments that have “mixed-use” multifamily are depressing to be in when they’re completely isolated from the rest of the city and you can only go in or out with a car.

The rationale in the OP is that with archinstall, an inexperienced user will have no idea where to even begin diagnosing any issues post install. Whereas installing manually is sort of a barrier to entry that ensures you know what you’re doing.

Managed service provider. Basically corporate IT.

The guy at the store said I’m the only guy he’s seen pull it off.

Then you get the women

Yep. Had the NDP been more popular we would likely have a Conservative government under Poilievre right now. We have a split vote on the left which makes strategic voting an unfortunate necessity.

If anybody hasn’t seen it, the logo for The Canadian Press is genius and one of my all time favourites.

For the sake of anonymity, I’ll let it slip that I’m also in Manitoba although outside Winnipeg.

Would you be able to speak more on what it takes to be involved with a coop? Like I guess that once the building is finished and all the residents are settled, the board is more focused on budgeting and maintenance projects?

I’m a solo homeowner but I’d gladly give up the absolute control over my own decisions to have more security in a collective.

Last year, I think it was on the War on Cars podcast, their guest was a disillusioned traffic engineer that called his entire field “a fraud discipline.” Like they put absolutely no critical thought into their designs as long as they are built to the exacting code.

Edit: Found it, it was an episode from a few years ago.

I was getting it mixed up with this other episode.

I’m curious to see if Build Canada Homes is going to include any kind of support for non-market or co-operative housing. I looked it up last year to see what the requirements are to secure funding from CMHC, and I found that unless you’re an established developer, and/or have considerable pockets, and/or already own significant areas of empty land, it just isn’t feasible to start a new housing co-op from scratch. The barrier to entry is too large.

It should be made easier for smaller co-operatives to get started with buildings under 10 units to better fit as urban infill instead of the current requirement of 32+ units which would need to get pushed to the outskirts of the city where land is cheaper and more available.