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Opinion: Affordability requires abundance. We need more housing

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Dave Thompson : Building new affordable housing in Canada now requires free land, grants to pay for construction.

Thompson : New market homes are needed to ease housing crisis for average- and lower-income Canadians .

More new housing means everyone has more options, and we reduce competition for older, more affordable homes, he says.

Cities need to change zoning bylaws and encourage more of all types of housing.

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72

Informative language

75

Neutral language

74

Article tone

informal

Language

English

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42

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not offensive

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not hateful

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medium-lived

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