Can Bulldozing Paradise Really Solve the Housing Crisis?

Ben Durham
Ben Durham
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Published 2024-07-14
The Housing Crisis is a global problem... but sprawling our cities actually just makes life even MORE unaffordable for EVERYONE.

This video covers soooo many details relating to how cities are making citizens (YOU) PAY MORE TAXES, economics, the environment (lightly), traffic, and quality of life :)

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⏰Timecodes⏰
00:00 Intro
01:37 Supply and Demand
03:32 Proposed solution to unaffordable house prices
03:57 Sprawl costs YOU money
04:40 Examples of current sprawl containment
05:30 Horrid GTA and Ottawa commutes
06:52 Do Urban Growth Boundaries work?
08:10 Singapore - does densification ACTUALLY work?
10:20 Toronto - sprawl gone wild
11:17 Tom Cruise on Toronto traffic lol
12:08 Olivia Chow (Toronto Mayor) on urban sprawl
12:59 London - a containment breach is near
14:51 The SECRET FIX to the Housing Crisis
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All Comments (9)
  • @iambored456
    Say it louder for the people parked in the back!
  • @ianbarr4716
    Ben for Premier? Actually, screw that....Ben for Prime Minister! Who's with me? This video is SPOT ON. Fantastic job Ben. Thank you. Cheers.
  • @AustinSersen
    Definitely run for council if you want! You understand the root issues plaguing modern cities, and you can even get the vote of a certain stubborn demographic because of your skin colour and gender...assuming you don't lean too heavy on the active transportation angle in your campaigning. Has London eliminated exclusionary single family zoning yet?
  • @noname-vz5wx
    I find your video very interesting! I think densification is the future in Canada and I understand the logic, but emotionaly, I feel disapointed by it. (Sorry for my mistakes in English btw). I live in a high density area and think there are a lot of negative aspect to it, which lowers the quaility of life. I am sure some people enjoy it a lot, but it seems to me that way they are currently designed has a lot of flaws, such as parkings place, accessibility issues for people with physical disabilities, having access to yard and parcs, lack of intimacy, or having so smell and hear your neighborhood (I am in a zone where smoking isnt allowed, yet I cant open my window without closing if within 5 minutes because someone close starts smoking). Montreal could be a good exemple maybe, of a high density city, and some people adore it! Perso, I really disliked it. I guess I feel sad that most of us won't get to experience a house with a yard, a garden and some distance between your neighbors, to have intimity and to hopefully not smell them too much lol. Wish there was a better solution than stacking us on top of each other. I am just dreaming, but I wish we had fast speed train through Canada, or more metro, to allow spreading. I get it's utopic, but I wiiiish :P