It’s almost hard to believe there was a time when the federal government was duty bound to deliver centrally located housing that was affordable to low and middle class citizens
Okay. The feds decide to build the old '70s style three story walk-ups they used to fund back in the 60s and '70s. The city has no appropriate zoning. That’s the end of the project. The feds can’t overrule the zoning regs. The province could, but so far they haven’t.
So the feds give money to the province to build housing. Province thanks them, and builds a new highway in the premier’s riding , or cut provincial taxes or whatever other pet project they decide on. And there’s sweet f-all the feds can do about it.
The big difference between the 1970s and now is the ratification of the constitution in '82. It makes it much more difficult for the feds to intrude into provincial jurisdiction. They and the provinces let most of the old housing construction agreements lapse in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The feds by and large haven’t been involved since, aside from some energy efficiency programs and CMHC.
Sounds about right, but there are plenty of mechanisms for ensuring that special purposed government funding passed between different spheres are to be spent in specific ways. Anyway, I don’t think it’s a problem to be solved with funding.
Okay. The feds decide to build the old '70s style three story walk-ups they used to fund back in the 60s and '70s. The city has no appropriate zoning. That’s the end of the project. The feds can’t overrule the zoning regs. The province could, but so far they haven’t.
So the feds give money to the province to build housing. Province thanks them, and builds a new highway in the premier’s riding , or cut provincial taxes or whatever other pet project they decide on. And there’s sweet f-all the feds can do about it.
The big difference between the 1970s and now is the ratification of the constitution in '82. It makes it much more difficult for the feds to intrude into provincial jurisdiction. They and the provinces let most of the old housing construction agreements lapse in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The feds by and large haven’t been involved since, aside from some energy efficiency programs and CMHC.
Sounds about right, but there are plenty of mechanisms for ensuring that special purposed government funding passed between different spheres are to be spent in specific ways. Anyway, I don’t think it’s a problem to be solved with funding.
Federal government could offer free money to municipalities who update their zoning regs.