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The land is what’s gaining value, not the structure on it
The revenues should have never gone to the police in the first place, they should go into redesigning and rebuilding problematic stroads so the cameras become unnecessary over time while other new permanent features of the road like speedbumps, curves, narrowing, and other traffic calming changes will enforce the speed limits passively.
1·1 month agoWhen the black plague happened in Europe centuries ago, enough people died that hiring labourers became a competitive process, so wages and benefits went up. Assuming business minded right wingers pay attention to history, they probably want to avoid a repeat.
Religious social conservatives want more babies because their religion demands it.
Racists feel threatened by immigration and want to rebalance the population in their favour.
22·1 month agoMaybe we can have both?
Identify problem areas, put up a camera, and use the ticket revenue to help pay for a better designed road there, so that when it’s rebuilt it’s the features of the road dictate the speed limit, and the sign and camera can be removed.
We need public options for the entire supply and distribution chain
This is still only one piece of the puzzle though. To restore affordability it would make sense to prioritize building and converting more existing stock to non-market housing so there’s competitive pressure on the remaining/existing landlords to keep rent low.
Vienna has done a wonderful job to show the world what’s possible after a century of continuous improvements with non market housing.
It’s exciting to see that the government could cut up to a year of development time with these blueprints. I’m curious what they’ll come up with that reflects the best of what modern BIM, digital twin, offsite manufacturing, CLT, and modular construction technologies can do.
Hopefully there will be a variety of to choose from for different kinds of environments and tastes. Personally I’d like to see some 6 storey apartments complexes, designed to accommodate car free lifestyles.
10·2 years agoBecause of competition
We don’t do that well in Canada
Checkout this post from last week: https://lemmy.ca/post/6518929
NIMBYS will be the downfall of this country. We don’t need more feasibility studies, we need bold action, ambition, and an inclusive permissive environment.
Canada, like many other places, has tried to balance minority rights with democracy but lately it seems like we’re doing a bad job of it and subsequently failing to address people’s basic needs. Strong mayor powers were supposed to address this but the Bonnie Crombie is missing in action.
This outcome could have been avoided if she had voted to break the tie. It shows how unserious she is about addressing the housing crisis and how terrible she’d be as OLP leader, and maybe premier.
Not as much as they hope it will.
Electric or not, we need less cars in cities, not more. Rather than making the next generation of mildly more sustainable but just as dangerous and space inefficient road congestants, we should be thinking harder about how best to meet people’s mobility needs in more safe, sustainable, and effective ways.
People need options not more car dependency.
Those resources are better used to build up public transportation, (e-)bike shares, sidewalks, and the accompanying infrastructure to go with it all, with seamless handoffs between modes.
Electric cars are here to save the auto industry, not the planet.
BBC coverage. Looks like this is getting global attention.
Bhutila Karpoche advocated for vacancy (rent) control last year, check it out:
This is the third time this article has been posted here today
The Netherlands has annual reassessments, Denmark’s are biannual, and Sweden’s are every 3 years.
It’s been 6 years in Ontario.
Fair and productive property taxes require both good initial assessment and periodic re-evaluation to reflect changes in value.
These delays are contributing to an unfairness in our tax system and subsidizing the rich at the expense of the poor.
See this paper for more great information on property taxes and their reform: https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/81246/1/imfg_paper_21_slack_bird_sept19_2015.pdf
Docker isn’t, but I was under the impression that hyperscalars tended to put all their containers in lightweight VMs or use something like kata containers anyways for security purposes