Great to see! Who pays for this spending is such an important question. I also think there's going to be strong incentives for governments to ignore that someone is still paying for (long-term) revenue-neutral, or close to it, programs like BC builds program for middle-income housing. On the one hand, it's great to see a plan to keep some of this housing in the hands of non-profits long-term. On the other hand, you are talking about households who in previous generations would have owned. They are still locked out, and while there's absolutely a benefit to the security of non-market housing even if it starts out close to market rents, instead of getting to build equity like previous generations did renters are effectively paying for housing that in the long-run will be socially-valuable below market housing. This is a little disappointing in combination with cuts for housing funding.
I did see that they might eventually also have a program for owned housing, so no complaints about starting somewhere though!
Tonight, on CBC Radio Ideas: Healing the Land, Part One
In 2021, a deadly heat dome produced a devastating wildfire season across British Columbia. While immediate media coverage often focuses on evacuations and the number of homes destroyed, First Nations communities say what these fires do to the land in their territories — and the cultural and philosophical lives of their communities — is often overlooked. IDEAS visited St'át'imc territory near Lillooet, B.C. to learn how 21st-century wildfires are reshaping the landscape — and their consequences for plants, animals, and humans alike. This two-part series follows the work of the St'át'imc Nation, land guardians, and scientists from the Indigenous Ecology Lab at UBC as they seek to document the effects of wildfires and chart a new future based on Indigenous approaches to healing and balancing an ecosystem.
Great to see! Who pays for this spending is such an important question. I also think there's going to be strong incentives for governments to ignore that someone is still paying for (long-term) revenue-neutral, or close to it, programs like BC builds program for middle-income housing. On the one hand, it's great to see a plan to keep some of this housing in the hands of non-profits long-term. On the other hand, you are talking about households who in previous generations would have owned. They are still locked out, and while there's absolutely a benefit to the security of non-market housing even if it starts out close to market rents, instead of getting to build equity like previous generations did renters are effectively paying for housing that in the long-run will be socially-valuable below market housing. This is a little disappointing in combination with cuts for housing funding.
I did see that they might eventually also have a program for owned housing, so no complaints about starting somewhere though!
Tonight, on CBC Radio Ideas: Healing the Land, Part One
In 2021, a deadly heat dome produced a devastating wildfire season across British Columbia. While immediate media coverage often focuses on evacuations and the number of homes destroyed, First Nations communities say what these fires do to the land in their territories — and the cultural and philosophical lives of their communities — is often overlooked. IDEAS visited St'át'imc territory near Lillooet, B.C. to learn how 21st-century wildfires are reshaping the landscape — and their consequences for plants, animals, and humans alike. This two-part series follows the work of the St'át'imc Nation, land guardians, and scientists from the Indigenous Ecology Lab at UBC as they seek to document the effects of wildfires and chart a new future based on Indigenous approaches to healing and balancing an ecosystem.
In case you are wondering why I posted the above: The biggest squeeze, the most deadly squeeze younger generations face is our environmental crisis.