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Unlocking housing construction and launching Canada Builds (www.pm.gc.ca)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I feel like I haven't seen anyone talking about this press release here and I'm curious about what people think.

  • "$15 billion top-up to the Apartment Construction Loan Program to build a minimum of 30,000 new apartments." Edit to add: "With this top-up, the program’s financing is on track to build over 131,000 new apartments within the next decade."
  • "new reforms to the Apartment Construction Loan Program to increase access to the program and make it easier for builders to build"
  • "Launching Canada Builds – partnering with provinces and territories to build more rental housing across the country"
  • "Yesterday, we announced a new $6 billion Canada Housing Infrastructure Fund and a $400 million top-up to the Housing Accelerator Fund to ensure communities have the infrastructure they need to grow and build more homes"

Is this more lip service or are these genuinely working in the right direction to increase housing?

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[–] Sprawlie 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah. Sometimes I don’t know why I bother with the Fediverse. Like, I like the idea, but there’s a fair amount of jank. I think lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works are still federated or whatever. Maybe I’ve gotten myself banned from some communities? I dunno. And I have no idea how/where to check.

Over the last few days the more glaring issues with the federation way are emerging. I sadly don't think Lemmy is going to survive once some of the federated servers either get big enough and they have to start dealing truly with the same bullshit posters /bots that reddit does.

Look at the .ML instance as an example. It is growing to be one of the largest ones, yet The typical post on that is borderline violent. I have read numerous death threats. Rampant Racism and anti-semitism. and the owner/admin of it seemingly agrees with that. I got a temp ban for "reporting too much" for directly reporting around 6 anti semetic and anti - islamic posts. And rading his post history, he's a staunch Commie who thinks we should kill all capitalists.

How lemmy.ml continues to be allowed to be federated despite this direction will be the evidenec that federation won't work if the overall Lemmy experience does not adhere to at least the same standards. Having standards differ wildly like that will just alienate poeple. I Know I don't know if I'm going to stay long here because of the sheer hate I see supported on Lemmy because certain federated server admins decided that sort of hate is ok on their server

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I have read numerous death threats. Rampant Racism and anti-semitism. and the owner/admin of it seemingly agrees with that.

I'm lucky, I've missed that somehow. Maybe my instance is defederated from lemmy.ml. Or maybe I blocked the instance in my client.

Maybe try a different instance? sh.itjust.works has been pretty good for me: decent uptime, mods seem fine, nothing gross/distasteful makes it onto my screen.