We Need to Achieve Housing Abundance (2023)

One problem is the base assumption that “desirable” communities exist, ex-nihilo.

They are made, and maintained by the people in them.

Move 100 good families into a wasteland, and in a few years you’ll have a “desirable community“. Eject wastrels from a community, and you’ll get a “desirable community”. And, no: race, sex, religion doesn’t appear to have anything to do with it. Good people love other people and like to learn and help; bad people hate you and everyone else and don’t like helping.

Why not let people live with people who love and learn from others? And who love to help mentor others who choose to want the same things into their community?

Unfortunately, it appears most regulation is bent on preventing this from happening. Because it’s unfair or something. And other regulations prevent good people from mentoring people who’d like to be good. Again, unfair something something…

Problem is: allowing wastrels to run rampant without restraint hurts them, more than anyone else (who just leave). It’s harming them to continue supporting their bad choices beliefs and behavior, rather than being forced (by results) to ask for help.

How does that make sense? Yet, here we are — a million square km of beautiful land suitable for living here in Canada, and we can’t decide to build a community due to government regulation (that isn’t predestined by design to become a slum).

And before you explode in self-righteous fury, ask yourself:

Where would I want to live in my elderly years — and exactly who built and maintains that community?

The answer won’t be who you think it should be…

QED.