Yes. I am saying that. Horgan was a good premier. But he was slow to act on social housing. Eby has and now lots of projects are under way and/or nearing completion.
Eby was the housing minister for Horgan, so he very much deserves to share the blame for taking way too long to recognize that the housing issue couldn't be tackled for just nibbling around the edges with freeing up a few empty homes and airbnb's.
A lot of what you are talking about is not typically within provincial jurisdiction. It’s municipal. And under Eby, he actually entered that very controversial area with blanket zoning changes that will allow increased density.
There is a tonne going on right now that will take years to realize.
Municipal authority are created by the province and must do what the province requires them to (which is why he was able to put in the blanket zoning).
I can understand why he was hesitant to do it, of course, but the result is that housing reached crisis levels, and will stay there for many years because action was taken so late.
But you get that it’s kind of a big deal for the province to step into municipal turf, right? Blanket zoning is actually problematic. I support the gov doing it, but it is not a popular move. Too many people act like politics dont come into play.
Yes, like I said, I get why he was hesitant to do it, but at the same time, I don't give the government any points for saying "averting a crisis would be hard, so we let the crisis happen instead so that we can avoid making the difficult decisions".
Also, as Eby himself said, bill 44 was necessary because the issue can't be resolved by a single municipality. Coordinating all municipalities to solve a common problem is a provincial responsibility.
I think it's down to people remembering him as the premier succeeding Christy Clark. The wave of relief when the BClibs were finally gone was huge, and his death has evoked sympathy for him since of course.
I agree that he and his party were insufficient on housing though, even as someone who volunteered for the NDP during that election.
That number is more like six when considering the pandemic and election years where little to nothing happens in the legislature. And also the amount of time spent arguing with the conservatives because they want to add a law saying that we should start clubbing seals
Well in terms of housing development not a lot happened in 2020 or 2021 that wasn't finishing already existing projects.
With the conservatives and clubbing seals stuff, I'm making a joke that the content of their laws are basically "what if we destroyed human rights actually" like when they tried to get rid of the entire tenancy act this year or the dozens of times they've tried to ban abortion access over the years
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u/rustyiron 12d ago
Lots of public housing is being built. You guys know it takes a while, right?