Housing & Affordability Task Force Recommendations - Explained

Admin just said that there is no mandate for the amount of extra nonmarket housing to be built!

You SEE Calgary that they have no actual plan for nonmarket housing to increase affordability?

This is what all nonprofits and orgs are asking for.

A speaker suggested a plebiscite on the Housing & Affordability Task Force.

He notes that who has low rating & Jyoti Gondek has one of the lowest approvals in Calgary's history don't have the mandate from citizens to make such a decision in regards to HATF.

Good point.

"In fact, the City of Calgary, being the single largest landowner, has identified only two parcels for residential housing use out of the whopping 407 parcels of land it owns."

Bingo.

Opinion: Build whatever, wherever bonanza coming to Calgary soon Mary Moran writing on the affordable housing crisis.

"In fact, the City of Calgary, being the single largest landowner, has identified only two parcels for residential housing use out of the whopping 407 parcels of land it owns."

This is what the HATF is missing. The development of non-market housing will actually bring housing affordability.

This is where the focus should be.

Opinion: Build whatever, wherever bonanza coming to Calgary soon Mary Moran writing on the affordable housing crisis.

"The City of Calgary, being the single largest landowner, has identified ONLY two parcels for residential housing use out of the whopping 407 parcels of land it owns."

This is the biggest issue that is being missed in the Housing and Affordability Task Fore recommendations.

Calgary has no actual plan for affordable housing and hopes for a trickle-down housing affordability if they just enrich more inner city developers that price out people with expensive infills.

City of Calgary needs to use Calgary's land with transit to build non market housing.

Opinion: The Wild West — Build whatever, wherever bonanza coming to Calgary soon Mary Moran writing on the affordable housing crisis.

Today Calgary councillors heard from people that will tell them how great the Housing and Affordability Task Force Recommendations are but couldn't really tell why except echoing talking points.

The people that did cry out for actual help and pleas for solution for now had no answers for them. Because there are no answers for now for housing affordability in this. That's what people don't seem to understand.

It was also publicly exposed that the building industry wasn't even consulted for this. What a sham.

So much for the consultations with experts etc.

Allowing developers to put 8 dwellings/units on your street won't do anything for housing affordability.

It will be just cheaper for them to build while increasing congestion on the street. Then the City planners / will want to charge for street parking.

Understand now?

City of Calgary and Jyoti Gondek are so worried about housing and affordability in that they are doing nothing about the thousands of short-term rentals, Airbnb, operating here and removing supply.

Why?

City of Calgary's Housing and Affordability Task Force Recommendations is the evolution of the Guidebook for Great Communities.

City admin & planners and certain members of are using the housing unaffordability crisis and word salads to push their ideologies.

Contact your Calgary city councillors and be heard!