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Date Posted: 19:13:51 02/06/08 Wed
Author: stan oliver
Subject: Re: Affordable Housing National Issue
In reply to: Poopy Oysters 's message, "Affordable Housing National Issue" on 10:49:07 02/01/08 Fri

The only thing I can say is "CAHS was promised (7) acres & (4) homes built to lock up", we ended up with a clear cut!!!!!!


DUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!



>I agree that affordable housing is a problem but why
>is anyone entitled to move from any city in Canada to
>Cortes on a whim and then expect low cost housing ???
>It just doesn't make sense. With thousands of homeless
>in our major cities something needs to be done at that
>level immediately (yesterday) but the politicians are
>dragging their heels. Cortes housing prices are the
>way they are because of supply and demand. Living on
>the gulf islands is not a right. It's a highly prized
>lifestyle and therefore the price of Real Estate has
>sky-rocketted. My property taxes have sky-rocketted.
>What's to be done ??? I don't know but if Cortes
>starts building low-income housing it will just
>attract more and more poor people from the iner
>cities. I mean, why would one remain struggling to
>find a place to stay in the city if Cortes is
>providing cheap housing !!!! You mght not like my
>answer but it's the truth. Who is going to get that
>proposed low-income housing ??? Will it be a lottery
>??? I got lots of friends who'd LOVE to move to Cortes
>if housing was cheap !
>I do agree that we sure don't need the Whaletown
>Commons and our provincial and federal governments
>need to do something about the price of basic housing
>for lots of Canadians.

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