For example, storeys.com ran an article recently in which Gord Perks, Chair of Toronto’s Planning and Housing Committee, dismissed arguments that zoning by-laws, fees and fines, and the public consultation process are barriers to housing. He called the claims utterly false.
Afterwards, Perks told Storeys that, “The claim that government interventions through public consultations, zoning regulations, and fees and charges have stopped housing from being affordable is nonsense. Government action is not why there’s a housing affordability crisis in Toronto.”
Reported on storeys.com, byline, Richard Lyall Oct 16 2024
https://storeys.com/bureaucracy-taxes-add-housing-crisis/
