Dear Editor
Real estate, territory, land, is there anything that is more fundamental to a nation? Ask the indigenous people of the world.
Shelter on that land, isn’t it a human right? One can survive without freedom of religion or speech but try it without shelter, especially in Canada. One would think that land management and housing would be a priority for any government at any level.
Where does the current provincial government stand on affordable housing? Their policies (?) appear to be predicated on conservative free market ideology. The excuse for doing nothing?
A desire not to have negative impact on home-owner equity?
Well I’m a homeowner. As a result I’m a taxpayer and I’m bracing for the increase in taxes necessitated by a 20 per cent increase in the value of my single family residence where I’ve lived for over 30 years.
My spouse and I bought our home to live and raise a family in, not as an investment. We’d like for our children to be able to do the same some day and not have to move to New Brunswick to do it.
Your readers should give serious thought to voting for the Green Party of B.C. in 2017. Not to get rid of the party in power nor to keep anyone else out of power but to create a government the policies of which are principle- and fact-based and not based on some outdated, ineffective ideology.
David W.G. Macdonald, Burnaby
