HBC Building on Douglas Street
#1
Posted 24 February 2007 - 08:50 AM
I am not tottally in favour of the approved project. I think a new reatil development, library, museum or something would be better then a condo development. The condos will not help homeless or low income people because prices of units will be high. It will just raise real estate values for city of Victoria.
Alan Lowe should focus more attention on helping the homeless rather then mega projects that will just make Victoria more expensive to live.
#2
Posted 24 February 2007 - 09:11 AM
Those of us who work for a living deserve some of the focus.
#3
Posted 24 February 2007 - 11:38 AM
Those individuals who oppose market housing and support social housing must realize that their anti-market-housing efforts are inadvertently part of their social housing dilemma.
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#4
Posted 24 February 2007 - 03:15 PM
Isn't it a bit of a stretch to evaluate any project from the point of view of "how it's going to help homeless"? And even if take it as a criteria, how would any of listed alternatives ("a new reatil development, library, museum or something") fit? Not that I am partonizing museums on a daily basis so I may have missed something, but in those instances when I did visit I haven't encountered too many homeless in there.
#5
Posted 24 February 2007 - 03:38 PM
There is a considerable retail component included in the development.I think a new reatil development ... would be better then a condo development.
New residential development helps take pressure off the existing housing stock, freeing up older buildings for the lower classes. If we do not build new residential as the cities population increases it's the lower class who get squeezed out of housing.The condos will not help homeless or low income people because prices of units will be high
#6
Posted 25 February 2007 - 12:25 PM
Buildings have life cycles, the older a building gets, generally the lower the rents. Having a gradiant of housing styles and ages in a city, constantly cycling , ensures that all 'levels' of society have access. This is not just true for housing the "poor" but for also providing cheap breeding grounds, incubators for new businesses that couldn't afford the rents of a shiny new building in a popular area.
The Hudson can not and should not directly provide housing for the poor, but it's an important part in the over all housing cycle that we've been sadly neglecting downtown. What it can also do is give a fair amount of money from bonus density to groups and agencies that fix up older buildings to offer fair cheap housing.
#7
Posted 25 February 2007 - 06:49 PM
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
#8
Posted 26 February 2007 - 11:33 AM
haha.
Good point, so many buildings in north america are like the disposable camera's of housing.
#9
Posted 26 February 2007 - 11:36 AM
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#10
Posted 26 February 2007 - 12:33 PM
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