Luca Colasanto @ljcolasanto
These opinions are my own. Toronto, Ontario Joined October 2008-
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I want to be part of a “radically-centrist, freedom-loving, immigrant-welcoming, tolerant & compassionate, fiscally-responsible, reform-minded, populist-embracing, free market-advocating, common sense, get shit done” political party.
Let’s be blunt: This is true NIMBYism. Opposition to housing and change, mixed with kind sounding words and political jargon to mask the shameless self interest in the position itself. Oakville will never do the right thing left alone. Reform must be provincially driven!
Let’s be blunt: This is true NIMBYism. Opposition to housing and change, mixed with kind sounding words and political jargon to mask the shameless self interest in the position itself. Oakville will never do the right thing left alone. Reform must be provincially driven!
In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally abhorrent groups: the cops who perjure on the stand and the Crown attorneys who persecute the innocent. These are their spin:
In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally abhorrent groups: the cops who perjure on the stand and the Crown attorneys who persecute the innocent. These are their spin:
Across Toronto, every day, drivers break the law by blocking intersections—and police say it’s something they hardly ever enforce. My latest for @TorontoStar is a look at the crack down efforts in motion for one of the biggest traffic chaos factors: thestar.com/news/gta/drive…
i can't believe that sesame street told me that adulthood would be hanging out with my neighbors in diverse, walkable communities, but it turned out to be 14-hour email jobs to pay for an apartment in increasingly gentrified, car-centric cities
Instead of using provincial legislation to allow 4plexes as of right and, critically important, PREVENT POISON PILLS, Ford decided to let municipalities implement 4plexes and include all the poison pills they want. This tells us Ford is an idiot. globalnews.ca/news/10423977/…
ON SUBURBAN SPRAWL: “Bankrupting municipal budgets, creating epidemics of preventable diseases, and helping to cause climate change — that’s how you start a conversation about why the suburbs need to change, and why more of our growth should go to infill and transit-oriented…
“If we want good city services and we want low taxes, we need to consider raising our density to pay for the city services.” dmagazine.com/publications/d…
Highways and sprawl isn’t just terrible for your life (the high personal and financial cost of the long commute) and terrible for the environment, it’s also terrible for cities and governments because the math doesn’t work. Sprawling cities are broke. Sprawl inducing highways…
Highways and sprawl isn’t just terrible for your life (the high personal and financial cost of the long commute) and terrible for the environment, it’s also terrible for cities and governments because the math doesn’t work. Sprawling cities are broke. Sprawl inducing highways…
Houston is broke, but so are some of the richest cities in Silicon Valley. What do they have in common? Not politics. Not governance. It's the development pattern. The way they build their places has made them insolvent. 1/
Kory Teneycke is 100% correct: NIMBYism and government inaction on home construction risks Canada's social cohesion.
One of my working theories for the emergence of the "Trad wife" aesthetic is that it depends a lot on disconnection from women who were actually adults in the 1950s and 60s. I grew up in a lot of highly intergenerational spaces and the idea that we'd lost some sort of golden age
Reminder that in 2018, the median homeowner in San Jose, CA earned $100/hr from the increase in home prices alone. This comic illustrates the situation well.
Conservative climate plan that isn’t the carbon tax: 1. Allow people to build unlimited housing near jobs/amenities 2. Allow people to add jobs/amenities near housing 3. Allow market to build renewables + storage at massive scale 4. Build lots of nuclear power
Conservative climate plan that isn’t the carbon tax: 1. Allow people to build unlimited housing near jobs/amenities 2. Allow people to add jobs/amenities near housing 3. Allow market to build renewables + storage at massive scale 4. Build lots of nuclear power
The reviews of the Premiers’ committee appearances are in: “parade of nonsense” “completely dishonest about the cost” “ignoring rebates” “fantasy” alternatives and the kicker, “bankrupt positions.” via @AtIssueCBC
Milton Friedman, renowned communist
Milton Friedman, renowned communist https://t.co/LMGswbFDGD
The @fordnation government doesn’t care about housing affordability. Numbers don’t lie.
Every resident needs to understand this chart when it comes expectations of municipal services.
Every resident needs to understand this chart when it comes expectations of municipal services.
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@TristinHopper The selectivity of police departments varies significantly by location. New York or Toronto can afford to be very selective. Rural Mississippi? Less so.
@IAmMarkManson What a gift though. That this wonderful person chooses to be with you simply because they want to. Not because they need you.
@ljcolasanto You mean I could have three more old guys blasting Born to Be Wild as they drive by every hour?
@CouncillorKnoll This is precisely why major land use reforms must come from the province. You simply cannot trust wealthy housing-haves to vote to upzone themselves on their own accord. Provincially, it applies universally and fairly to all municipalities and all must accept change.
@anthonyfurey Anthony, look outside where you are right now and tell me what the main design principle is? Is most of it dedicated to accommodating cars? 12 lanes of the 401. Parking lots taking more space than the store they serve. Most roads in Toronto are all designed for cars first.
You're planning a construction on your own private property that meets all the requirements for material, height, etc. You’re following all the rules, but your neighbors don’t like your plan. Should they be able to squash it? Are your rights up for negotiation? Why or why not?
Filing income taxes is like getting to the checkout counter, adding up the bill yourself, and getting in trouble if you mess it up.
@DaveLikesBikes I will die on the hill that right turn on red has no redeeming value whatsoever!!!!!
I stand by my theory that right turn on red is the problem. People block the box because otherwise cars turning right fill the space - if they don’t block the box, they’ll never get through - cars turning right on red will fill every gap.
Across Toronto, every day, drivers break the law by blocking intersections—and police say it’s something they hardly ever enforce. My latest for @TorontoStar is a look at the crack down efforts in motion for one of the biggest traffic chaos factors: thestar.com/news/gta/drive…
Across Toronto, every day, drivers break the law by blocking intersections—and police say it’s something they hardly ever enforce. My latest for @TorontoStar is a look at the crack down efforts in motion for one of the biggest traffic chaos factors: thestar.com/news/gta/drive…
@carastern Kinda seems like people being stuck with mom & dad until their 30s is a bigger drag on fertility than building small apartments. 🤷♂️
You can ration by price or you can ration by… rationing. What you can’t do is argue with a market and win. Markets don’t care about what you think they should be. They just *are*. The question should be how this informs the way of achieving the political outcomes we wish for.
Part of solving the housing crisis should be working towards making renting in Canada less financially, socially, and freedom limiting.
Can we just talk about tax policy without people getting mad?
If government is serious about their intergenerational fairness lens (and bringing down home prices), removing or capping the principal residence exemption would be the obvious tax policy change and would actually raise meaningful revenue.
Higher taxes for the wealthy? Chrystia Freeland's budget will reveal how Ottawa plans to pay for its spending spree. Latest from me: thestar.com/politics/highe… via @TorontoStar
@ljcolasanto @RM_Transit He actually talked about that in this video youtu.be/9QBAC1246j0?si…
It should be abundantly clear by now that it’s Conservative Premiers in the way of housing.
I think this is well intentioned, but the wrong approach. Threatening to murder a public official is obviously wrong, and cannot stand in a democratic society. Any concession to an ideological framework that says otherwise is a mistake.
We’re going to need to allow some room for a lot of young people to snap out of it in the coming years. Some punishment is deserved here, but a vindictive pile-on may only add to their sense of alienation and oppression. A bit of grace could go a long way.
Absolutely deranged take from NIMBYs masquerading as a housing conscious organization.
Canada's housing crisis is an affordability crisis. Great to see some new federal measures which have potential to address affordability. However, overall the federal plan focuses on supply & evidence shows more supply won't make housing more affordable. thestar.com/politics/feder…
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