Multiplexes

This looks similar to the triplex I own when I lived in Montreal. 3 separate self-contained floors. The bottom floor had a full basement. Daniel Latouche (the separatist) lived on the 3rd floor.
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Multiplexes like those in your posts are unrealistic and horribly
costly. I am afraid our government can amass at best funds
required for the type of public housing as economical as in
this video:

 
Hey, out here in the west end, Sauga a few years ago they got their heads out of their asses and allowed second units in single family dwelling.
Annual fire department inspection fee to be sure all exits remain viable etc are higher if the owner does not live in the house.

A place 4 doors down from me was one of the first to convert. They extended the back of the house to enlarge it. Widened it a bit too to allow separate entrance to side of the two car garage and an added staircase to the basement and the second floor.

So the place now has main floor split in half with two kitchens and dining and a shared laundry. Extension on back gives two living rooms, and basement bathroom and second floor bathroom. One units bedrooms in basement, other bedroom's on second floor.

It really is a nice conversion. Yes about 8 months of disruption. But that is to be expected.

I surmise it is a harbinger of thing s to come around where I live.
 
I'm sure there are members who are currently Montreal residents or former Montreal residents.

I had to sell my triplex when I moved to Toronto. Went back for a visit in 2004 and they had converted the 3 floors to condos and were selling each for north of $300,000. The bottom floor with the full basement was more expensive.
 
What's 10,000,000 immigrants coming to Toronto in the next 10 years These multiplexes are looking like mansions. Toronto is gonna be a total snow from most people. Traffic now look like A dream Perfection. Just like 1 hour rush hour was horrible 30 years ago And now It's what we consider non rush hour.
 
The federal government wants to take 500k immigrants a year in order to make it look like the Canadian economy is growing. The truth is the exact opposite, we are a very unproductive country and the economy is stagnant.

By allowing immigrants to concentrate in 2 cities (Toronto and Vancouver), you create a real estate bubble which exacerbates the productivity problem as people have to spend more and more money just to live in Toronto which takes away their ability to invest money in industies in order to allow said industries to modernize and invest in technology that would make industry more efficient and productive.

The solution is for the federal government to stipulate that immigrants arriving to Canada must be spread out across the land. Canda is massive. There is definitely no land shortage in Canada. There is a shortage of land in Toronto and Vancouver.

Canada is currently on track to break 40 million souls this year. Last year, we took in over a million people. That's incredible. But you have to ask yourself if we increased the capacity in our health care and eduation systems to be able to accomodate a million more people. The answer is obviously no.