Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!daveb
From: daveb@geac.UUCP (David Collier-Brown)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: rent review
Summary: Er, guys...
Message-ID: <2363@geac.UUCP>
Date: 1 Mar 88 12:39:05 GMT
Article-I.D.: geac.2363
Posted: Tue Mar  1 07:39:05 1988
References: <1988Feb24.140628.28040@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <1433@looking.UUCP> <1988Feb26.225840.21116@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <1437@looking.UUCP> <1988Feb28.002014.29461@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <1443@looking.UUCP> <1988Feb29.173313.13345@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
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In article <1988Feb29.173313.13345@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> jdd@db.toronto.edu
("John D. DiMarco") writes, in reply to Brad Templeton:

> I believe that the answer to increased prices is an increased supply
> of housing units, yet unfortunately, I am convinced that the 'free
> market' will act only to maximize profits. Because of the Dual
> Income family phenomenon, the most profitable housing construction
> in the future will be high-income level.  That leaves Government
> housing.... 

  Less than three weeks ago, the developers were complaining
publically about the decrease in the market for luxury housing, and
the need for "affordable housing" (which they hoped to provide).
  The government/developer response was to brainstorm furiously and
come up with the obvious: small, single-family dwellings of the
1950s type.

  Do the participants in this discussion not remember this? It was
prominent on the front pages of both the Star & Globby Mail...


--dave (six months? six weeks!) c-b
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