city council commits to build 13,000 new homes as part of provincial housing strategy

**Margaret's boy** · March-04-23, 01:06 PM

Not much happening over here in Windsor, at least as far as downtown development is concerned. The first large scale public housing development in over 30 years opened on the east side at 3100 Meadowbrook Lane near Lauzon Parkway between E C Row and Tecumseh Rd E. City council commits to provincial call to build 13,000 new homes | Windsor Star

**Richard** · March-04-23, 10:39 PM

See what happens when you legalize weed?

The province’s total goal for Essex County is 30,400 homes. Windsor’s target is 13,000 new residential units.

Challenges for municipalities will include streamlining the planning and building approval processes and ensuring infrastructure such as water, sewer, roads and power are in place for private sector builders.

Looks more like somebody had some relatives they wanted to put on the city payroll as the new positions open up.

What they are really saying is they need that many houses because of demand,but because the infrastructure cannot support them,so they need a tax hike in order to pay for it,if it was feasible private industry would be already building them.

In Windsor would not the idea be to grow up and not out?

**Margaret's boy** · March-05-23, 12:24 PM

Most new high-density development bypasses the city's core, unlike Detroit, which leads to lots of open space and brownfield downtown, while suburban communities continue to densify.

**401don** · March-05-23, 01:03 PM

Originally Posted by Richard

See what happens when you legalize weed?

The province’s total goal for Essex County is 30,400 homes. Windsor’s target is 13,000 new residential units.

Challenges for municipalities will include streamlining the planning and building approval processes and ensuring infrastructure such as water, sewer, roads and power are in place for private sector builders.

Looks more like somebody had some relatives they wanted to put on the city payroll as the new positions open up.

What they are really saying is they need that many houses because of demand,but because the infrastructure cannot support them,so they need a tax hike in order to pay for it,if it was feasible private industry would be already building them.

In Windsor would not the idea be to grow up and not out?

More like what happens when you elect a Conservative gov't. They drop fees for developers, saying this will really jump start housing but expect the cities to pick up the tab.

**Richard** · March-05-23, 01:41 PM

From what I can gather the mayors office and council are not a whose who list of conservatives.

Cities and by default taxpayers are responsible for infrastructure,one cannot privatize shared assets.

Unless of course one supports the Canadian workers party or the Canadian marxist party then they would be wanting private developers to build everything including infrastructure for free and give them the houses because they would have a right to them.

You did not have a problem with taxpayers picking up the tab for a 6 - 8 billion dollar bridge and have to cover the future losses.

Just think how many free homes that would have provided.

**Henry Whalley** · March-05-23, 01:46 PM

Originally Posted by Margaret's boy

The first large scale public housing development in over 30 years opened on the east side at 3100 Meadowbrook Lane near Lauzon Parkway between E C Row and Tecumseh Rd E. City council commits to provincial call to build 13,000 new homes | Windsor Star

What does 'public housing' mean in Windsor? Similar to housing projects?

**Jimaz** · March-05-23, 03:09 PM

Originally Posted by Henry Whalley

What does 'public housing' mean in Windsor? Similar to housing projects?

Wikipedia has an article about it: Public housing in Canada. I don't know why that surprised me but it did.

**401don** · March-05-23, 03:09 PM

Originally Posted by Richard

From what I can gather the mayors office and council are not a whose who list of conservatives.

Cities and by default taxpayers are responsible for infrastructure,one cannot privatize shared assets.

Unless of course one supports the Canadian workers party or the Canadian marxist party then they would be wanting private developers to build everything including infrastructure for free and give them the houses because they would have a right to them.

You did not have a problem with taxpayers picking up the tab for a 6 - 8 billion dollar bridge and have to cover the future losses.

Just think how many free homes that would have provided.

Infrastructure has been largely paid by the development costs which are being reduced, leaving a much greater portion to be paid by municipalities. Every mayor in every Ontario city has been complaining about Ford's decision to reduce them. Lots of Canadians, including me, thought the bridge deal was stupid.

**401don** · March-05-23, 03:13 PM

These 13,000 new homes are not public housing.

**Richard** · March-05-23, 07:51 PM

Originally Posted by 401don

These 13,000 new homes are not public housing.

yea I could not find anything in the article that said what the target market is.

There are controversial reports that Canada has 1 million plus vacant homes already.

Growth does pay back infrastructure improvements over time,but here anyways it is through a bond ,then taxpayers pay off the bond,not out of the general fund.

But like I said before,it’s a Ponzi scheme,because without new development adding funds to the coffers in order to offset the costs,you get what happened in the city of Detroit,the infrastructure ages and then taxpayers pay increases costs and there is no limit.