The Editor:
Premier David Eby earns a "D" for his housing policy.
This is coming from a life-long CCF/NDP member and former regional planner.
The province has ignored the criticism of its program despite numerous poor assessments by many urban planners and citizens who cited these problems:
- 60-storey towers for condos are not affordable
- the province is losing more affordable housing than it is building
- the trend of building skyscrapers is destroying communities, overcrowding our parks and special places, and creating more vehicle traffic, pollution and loss of trees
Skyscrapers are not a home for children.
The housing program only benefits developers and speculators.
Solution: Stop building skyscrapers.
Instead, construct gentle density low-rise buildings; stop unnecessary tree removal (trees are the lungs of our planet); and work with the federal government and northern communities on dispersing immigration away from the Lower Mainland before Metro Vancouver turns into a polluted wasteland of steel and glass.
I love my city and welcome diverse immigrants as neighbours.
We all love our trees and special places.
Please protect them.
- Yvonne Harris, Coquitlam
