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As rents soar, tenants organize local protests. But what's needed for a national housing movement? | CBC News (www.cbc.ca)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

You can’t expect people to change their housing to be right next to their work or change their work to be right next to their housing. You’re silly.

You can't expect people to change at all.

Let's be real, they aren't going to magically start supporting transit either. Maybe you've forgotten, but we tried that already, building out a huge transit network in the 1800s, with streetcar systems lining the streets of the cities (not just Toronto) and the train connecting even the smallest of towns. We eventually ripped up almost all of it because nobody wanted to use it.

But as we're discussing an invented dream world, why do you cling to the transit bandaid when we can simply design cities property?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Designing cities for transit is designing them properly. Designing them for only walking is a fairy tale thought up by a 12 year old with no real world experience. Look how well transit works in European and Asian cities. Vancouver is even halfway decent (tons of room to improve still).