The City of Pickering received more than $5 million from the Provincial Government for achieving and surpassing the home building objectives. Bully for it….are the home prices going to be at attainable levels for the average home buying purchaser? Given the inflationary rates of our times and the baffle gab the various governments offer as their solutions, none on these hopeful buyers will be buying any home unless they can do some magical cash achievement.
Any kudos being considered for Kevin Ashe, Mayor of Pickering, for reaching these home building goals should be balanced with some unarguable criticism: has the City considered the seriousness of the impact those home constructions will have on the City, its traffic congestion, its transit use, its emergency response facilities, parking facilities? These criticisms could be catastrophic in the making but the City once again fails to give keep its citizens well informed. Who knows what plans are in the making to deal with the negative repercussions of all this home building? The City sure doesn’t inform people or if it does, it does so with ‘Council Minutes’ that only a lawyer or accountant might be able to decipher. The average resident, fuggedaboutit.
Read more in Glenn Hendry’s column “Housing target bonuses easy money for Pickering“
What do you think?
