Alex Beheshti @beheshtialex Twitter profile

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Alex Beheshti

@beheshtialex

6 months

@whitn_tarnation Fake London. Also one of the major tech tech hubs in North America.

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1 year

Corner block retail should be legalized everywhere. Micro mixed uses really help to animate neighbourhoods and provide the ability for people to work from home who are not part of the laptop class.

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3 months

@atrupar How we all feel watching this

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2 months

At the cottage with family this past long weekend and got talking about politics. Every single voting-age adult was like "I don't want to vote for Poilievre but I hate Trudeau and can't stomach voting for him again, I dont know who to vote for". My family has largely voted

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8 months

@iamkennethchan Can someone make sure to collect the nimby tears from this, Im feeling thirsty 😁

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@beheshtialex

1 year

Can't believe there is a side walk this wide in Toronto.

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@beheshtialex

9 months

Photo Title: two people more important than anyone else hold tram in the rain while an elderly man waits... The title needs work, but so does traffic enforcement in Toronto.

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Alex Beheshti

@beheshtialex

1 year

New Minister for Housing New Minister for Housing New Minister for Housing New Minister for Housing New Minister for Housing New Minister for Housing New Minister for Housing New Minister for Housing New Minister for Housing New Minister for Housing

CBC News

@CBCNews

1 year

Multiple ministers are being dropped from federal cabinet in a shuffle expected to take place Wednesday, sources tell CBC News.

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Alex Beheshti

@beheshtialex

6 months

@EricDLombardi He literally called his car a 'land yacht' in a subsequent post. He is exactly the type of person who is part of the 20% of Canadians not benefiting from the rebates and wants to fool Canadians who are into giving him a break for his boogie lifestyle at their expense.

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Alex Beheshti

@beheshtialex

8 months

Crapping on an affordable housing project targeted for First Nation and Metis people...so progressive 🫠🫤 For a party that spends more on oppo research than it does on policy development, you'd think they would've caught this one.

Jagmeet Singh

@theJagmeetSingh

8 months

Justin Trudeau says one thing but does the other. I visited Edmonton Griesbach, where Justin Trudeau promised to build more affordable homes. Instead, he's building luxury condos you can’t afford. With his plan — developers get rich, you get gouged.

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Alex Beheshti

@beheshtialex

2 months

@JShamess I heard a saying recently that I thought was on point with what you are trying to say here. Cars are faster than bikes but bikes are faster than traffic.

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@beheshtialex

1 year

Urban Planners cannot pretend that economics is exogenous to the work we do. You cannot just decide that shadows, urban design, etc are part of our work, but anything that involves numbers, math, and money can simply be ignored because econ works in mysterious ways or something

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Alex Beheshti

@beheshtialex

7 months

@realTomChapman Met a guy in a hostel in pairs who claimed to be from Toronto not "Toronno". When I called bullshit he admitted he was from Oklahoma. If you're gonna fake being from Canada, the little details like how you say Toronto are key to getting right.

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@beheshtialex

3 months

Normally I would never show the internet the inside of my home but seeing the discussion on housing Twitter lately, I think folks need to see what a so-called 400 sqft "shoebox" is like living in - it's great and Ive loved it! My walls are a little blank because I have a bunch

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Alex Beheshti

@beheshtialex

2 months

@26aball Dental plan doesn't apply to them, nor most Canadians. They cant find child care spaces that were promised. They all recently bought homes at prices they feel were inflated by out-of-control immigration and with rates above when they bought they aren't happy about that either, a

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Alex Beheshti

@beheshtialex

9 months

The sad part is once we get it running its quickly going to become obvious we need to upgrade the line to include signal prioritization. For the life of me I cannot believe we built an LRT system at unbelievable cost per km and didn't even give it right of way priority.

blogTO

@blogTO

9 months

A first look at the Eglinton LRT! We never thought this day would come!🥲 #TTC #EglintonCrosstown #EglintonLRT #Toronto #Metrolinx

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Alex Beheshti

@beheshtialex

5 months

We instituted a vacant home tax because we were told there are 1.3 million homes out there sitting empty just waiting to be occupied. That was a lie. We instituted a foreign buyers tax and ban because we were told all the housing was being bought up by them. This was also a lie.

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Alex Beheshti

@beheshtialex

1 year

This chart tells me there are a whole lot of folks in Canada who haven't had to buy or rent a new home in a while.

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Alex Beheshti

@beheshtialex

8 months

If you create a system where more housing is built by right, where there is less litigation, where endless community meetings to build a daycare, or whatever are a thing of the past, I promise you there won't be shortage of planners.

Lack of planners a concern as B.C. municipalities try to meet housing targets | CBC News

The B.C. government will soon release five-year targets for a second list of communities it considers critically short of housing. The first 10 municipalities mandated to build homes were announced...

www.cbc.ca

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Alex Beheshti

@beheshtialex

2 months

I don't hold it against my family on their voting intentions since they are trying to deal with the crappy options before them. I'm mad at the people/parties that give them crappy options to choose. The NDP are led by a champagne socialist clown, the Grits by an egomaniac who

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Alex Beheshti

@beheshtialex

3 months

@FlavioVolpe1 From the article

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Alex Beheshti

@beheshtialex

8 months

@theJagmeetSingh If there is any staffer reading this tweet, please for the love of god take your boss's phone away. This is getting embarrassing.

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Alex Beheshti

@beheshtialex

8 months

Fun fact, Toronto is equivalently on the same latitude as northern Spain. I love all the cosplaying about our northern winter status that advocates against bike lanes play act. Its 3 degrees C outside right now on Jan 27th, if that's not biking weather I dont know what is.

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@OhUrbanity

8 months

2,000 People Told Us Their Biggest Winter Cycling Challenges:

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Alex Beheshti

@beheshtialex

5 months

@LuisaSotomayorA Yes the proposed development was was going to offer homes to more young professional higher income types, but if those homes aren't built now what happens to the people who wouldve otherwise lived there? Where do you see them going?

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Alex Beheshti

@beheshtialex

8 months

What's amazing is Singh is not only crapping on the efforts of the federal Liberals but also the provincial BC NDP all in one go. Why oh why cant the national NDP and ONDP not be more like the BC NDP and not spew left-wing nimby garbage talking points.

Jagmeet Singh

@theJagmeetSingh

8 months

Justin Trudeau says one thing but does the other. I visited Edmonton Griesbach, where Justin Trudeau promised to build more affordable homes. Instead, he's building luxury condos you can’t afford. With his plan — developers get rich, you get gouged.

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Alex Beheshti

@beheshtialex

9 months

For folks who say that pre-approved designs wont help spur development - I give you Kelowna where it was such a smashing success that it created a nimby backlash. Better to try something and fail than not try anything. credit for chart: @russilwvong

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Alex Beheshti

@beheshtialex

5 months

Where is Kevin indeed. This guy is the poster child for recall laws.

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Alex Beheshti

@beheshtialex

1 year

Could only watch the first 5 minutes of this segment before turning it off. The minister was combative, condescending, and snarky. What an unmitigated disaster for the liberals on the housing file. Had several liberal friends say the same thing. We need a cabinet shuffle ASAP

TVO Today | The Agenda

@TheAgenda

1 year

What is the federal government doing about get affordable housing built? Are they matching Pierre Poilievre's rhetoric? @spaikin asks the Minister of Housing and Diversity and Inclusion, @HonAhmedHussen , tonight at 8/11pm on The Agenda. | Producer: @carastern #cdnpoli

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@beheshtialex

8 months

As someone who looks at municipal budgets all the time as part of my day job, i can tell you that the per capita of homeowners has no bearing on the available tax base. Why you ask, because RENTERS PAY TAXES Also before someone makes the accusation I'm a renter, I'm a homeowner

The Globe and Mail

@globeandmail

8 months

Toronto needs to stop squeezing its homeowners for tax revenue

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Alex Beheshti

@beheshtialex

6 months

I could not think of a time in provincial political history when a government had more leeway to go bold on housing policy and decided to so epically squander it. Going from 3 units to 4 units isn't going to change the world one way or another but the fact that Ford isn't

Colin D'Mello | Global News

@ColinDMello

6 months

NEW: After lots of internal deliberations about fourplexes (four units as-of-right) province wide - Premier Doug Ford shuts down the effort. Ford says that’s “off the table for us” largely because there would be push back from residents. #onpoli

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Alex Beheshti

@beheshtialex

11 months

Apartments are illegal to build on 90% plus of residential land, therefore housing is illegal to build. Not a hard concept to get, but I get it, yimby talking points are winning the day and that's probably infuriating for some to cope with 😂

Stephen Punwasi 🏚️📉🐈☃️

@StephenPunwasi

11 months

Politicians are lying, divisive scum bags, example #145 ,455,245 Liberals: Housing was illegal. Fact: 🇨🇦 set a record for new housing starts right before this guy was minister. Developers stopped building when prices dropped.

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Alex Beheshti

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2 years

If someone suggests to you that you can compare supply and demand for housing by comparing population growth to the growth in housing stock, you should stop listening to anything they have to say right after that because they don't know what they're talking about.

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Alex Beheshti

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1 year

Loved tonight's @TheAgenda with @GenSqueeze , particularly this chart showing how housing wealth distribution has changed over time. This is an excellent way to frame a 1,000-word essay about generational wealth disparity in a single image.

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6 months

How is it news that people in phase 1 of a neighbourhood development complain about people coming in phase 2? The news media absolutely played a pivotal role in platforming and stoking nimbyism that got us where we are today. I really wish more critics of the industry would

Toronto Star

@TorontoStar

6 months

Is Liberty Village full? Residents push back against proposed 43-storey tower. The development would add another 588 rental units to the dense community.

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Alex Beheshti

@beheshtialex

1 year

In the last month, we've heard from the Liberals: 1. Housing isn't a federal issue; 2. We're going to crank up immigration even higher despite the housing shortage; and 3. We are going to try and solve the housing crisis without lowing prices. JFC 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

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@jacoobaloo

1 year

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

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Alex Beheshti

@beheshtialex

9 months

Why the LPC are polling so terribly in a single tweet. It was the Vaughan side of the party that got them into trouble and it's the yimby side/Sean Fraser that is going to give them a fighting chance to beat PP.

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@beheshtialex

1 year

Imagine you have a population with 998 kids and 2 adults that turns into 998 adults and 2 kids. Your population grew by 0% but your housing need will be through the roof. Comparing pop% growth to housing% growth is complete and uttter junk analysis.

Housing stock grew faster than population in Vancouver and Toronto, StatCan finds

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@beheshtialex

8 months

@globeandmail This opinin piece is beyond garbage. Signed - An economist who deals with municipal budgets all day long.

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@beheshtialex

8 months

As someone who looks at municipal budgets all the time as part of my day job, i can tell you that the per capita of homeowners has no bearing on the available tax base. Why you ask, because RENTERS PAY TAXES Also before someone makes the accusation I'm a renter, I'm a homeowner

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Alex Beheshti

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2 months

As I've said 100 times it feels like on here, the LPC running on having delivered child care only pisses people off because the reality of the situation on the ground is a far cry from this. Part of the problem is the labyrinth of zoning regulations that prevent child care

Patrick T. Brown

@PTBwrites

2 months

Child care in Canada is starting to look a lot like health care in Canada - nominally universal, but with long waiting lines acting as the implicit form of rationing, particularly for low-income parents

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Alex Beheshti

@beheshtialex

6 months

3 issues with the planning system in Ontario. 1. Fundamentally it's about saying no enough times to get to yes. Huge waste of time and resources as a result. 2. It requires new residents to justify their existence to established residents constantly.

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@beheshtialex

2 months

I've never met a single Yimby who has ever opposed non-profit housing, in fact, every time it comes up for debate they are out in numbers advocating for it. However, I've seen plenty of so-called 'anti-market progressives' come up with every excuse under the sky to oppose this

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Alex Beheshti

@beheshtialex

6 months

The original bungalow sold for about $1 million in 2020, probably got it for cheaper than you could a year or two later. People will say how are $1.6 million units affordable, they aren't but that's not the point. This bungalow was at the end of life. It could have been

John Pasalis

@JohnPasalis

6 months

A bungalow in East York has been redeveloped into a small condo with (what appears to be) 4 units. This link is for the biggest unit, 3 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms, listed for $1.6M 1/

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Alex Beheshti

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1 year

I know this might upset some of my NDP friends, but seeing what the Eby government is now doing, or not doing, on housing in BC and hearing Stiles's take on what should be done on housing in Ontario, the movement is absolutely unserious about addressing housing structural issues.

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Alex Beheshti

@beheshtialex

6 months

Strap in folks because I'm gonna give you a long 🧵on what's wrong with think tanks in Canada. One thing people need to understand about discussing policy is there are three levels to it. 1. Policy Vision 2. Policy Proposal 3. Policy Implementation Think tanks in Canada LOVE

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Alex Beheshti

@beheshtialex

10 months

I love it when municipal decision-makers complain about 'one size fits all' provincial solutions to housing and the total lack of self-awareness that comes with this. As if zoning 80%-90% of your city for just a single type of housing isn't itself a 'one size fits all' solution

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6 months

I truly wonder in these situations if anyone in that crowd has a shred of self-awareness to look around be like maybe there is an issue that everyone attending this meeting looks the same in a city full of young diverse people. The average age in that room is probably twice as

Michael Geller

@michaelgeller

6 months

Even tho there's @Canucks hockey tonight there are a lot of people in Kits Neighbourhood House concerned about impacts of the Broadway Plan on Kits and surrounding neighbourhood. I'm here as a speaker b/c notwithstanding the hsg crisis, a tenfold increase in density is wrong! :(

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1 year

Just as an FYI, you can't legally build these apartments in the photo, which are from Vienna. City Planning in TO would tell you the floor plates are too large and something something shadows, something something can't have shadows touch the fringe of a park in March at 445 pm.

Canada Housing Crisis

@rCanadaHousing

1 year

We are not anti-development. We are anti-gentrification. We want development that benefits the community, not displaces it. We want development that creates affordable/public housing, not investment condos. We want development that respects the environment, not destroys it. 🌎

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@beheshtialex

1 year

I have 0 love for Poilevre and have every reason to be a liberal fan boy. The fact I'm so scathing should be a 5-alarm fire for the LPC but I doubt they are listening to anyone or care what people like me think. The Trudeau gov is in its dieing days. That much is clear to me.

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@beheshtialex

8 months

For someone who is into journalism, this is disappointing to see. I actually quite like @atRachelGilmore but she is retweeting the Breitbart of Housing news. If you go to the article you will see that it's some small town in Newfoundland that the headline is referring to.

Rachel Gilmore

@atRachelGilmore

8 months

"But the immigrants!!!!!" bro, we need more houses and as soon as we build them greedy fucks buy them so they can profit off them, not live in them:

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@beheshtialex

6 months

The default should be a box built at 90 degrees with no stepbacks or very few of them anyway. What does it mean to treat a housing crisis like a crisis - not buildings with requirements that add between $100k to $200k per 1,000 sf to the cost of a home.

CityPlanTO

@CityPlanTO

6 months

Coming Soon! As part of the #HousingActionPlan , @CityPlanTO is proposing new default height and rear transition zoning standards for mid-rise buildings that would apply to Avenues that haven’t had area-specific planning studies. Learn more:

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Alex Beheshti

@beheshtialex

8 months

I find it ironic that Atwood acknowledges how democracy breaks down when basic necessities for people's daily lives aren't being met yet she has been a chaos agent herself by working to deny people housing as a well-known nimby in Toronto.

Financial Times

@FT

8 months

Can people be fooled into thinking authoritarianism is better than democracy? Here is what award-winning novelist Margaret Atwood has to say:

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Alex Beheshti

@beheshtialex

2 years

Working from home does not need to be exclusive to the laptop class. We could extend this privilege to service and hospitality workers if we ended the exclusion of businesses from neighbourhoods. Exclusionary zoning isn't just about housing.

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@beheshtialex

10 months

This is a completely losing message, never mind how fact free it is. I truly don't understand how someone writes this and thinks they can convince the young middle and aspiring middle class to care about others when the message from the left is we don't care about you.

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@beheshtialex

6 months

A friend just sent me a new OLP news release that planning nerds are going to want to take note. I was wondering where the party was going with housing after its recent leadership contest and it seems the support for Yimbyism wasn't just a passing fad👀

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Alex Beheshti

@beheshtialex

11 months

Apparently ranked ballot is good enough for MPs in Canada to select the Speaker but its too complicated for ordinary Canadians to select their MPs according to some. I would also point out that the major political parties use rank balloting to select the leader.

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@beheshtialex

2 years

When there are 73 applicants for every basement suite you have a supply problem, a really bad one. I don't get how many symptoms of supply scarcity people have to notice until they believe the truth. This is so sad because it's all self-inflicted.

Chris Walker

@ChrisWalkerCBC

2 years

We have a basement suite in our home here in Kelowna that we rent out. It's neat, tidy, and affordable (about 30% below avg). Our tenant is moving out May 1st, so I posted an ad. The response has been overwhelming, and kinda troubling...

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4 months

If a provincial government was so inclined to cut down on planning regulations an easy peasy way to do that would be to limit municipalities to about 12 to 16 zones max and only 3 zones for any specific use. E.g. 3 residential zones, 3 mixed-use zones, 3 commercial zones, and so

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Alex Beheshti

@beheshtialex

4 months

We don't have a housing crisis, we don't have a daycare crisis, we have a planning and leadership crisis.

Tyler Olsen

@ty_olsen

4 months

STORY TOMORROW: Langley City council looks set to ban additional daycares in its downtown. New rules would treat daycares like tattoo parlors, banning new daycares from opening within 400 meters or other downtown facilities. Subscribe to read tomorrow:

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@beheshtialex

10 months

I'm always skeptical when people involved in heritage preservation say that savings buildings is the cheaper option. @HousingNowTO bringing the facts about the costs as they do so well. Affordable housing has to be the primary goal here not heritage.

Historic Cabbagetown rowhouses slated for affordable housing still in limbo | CBC News

Those renovations have been stalled for years, at least in part because of their heritage status, which means TCH has to pass many and often expensive city hurdles before work can begin.

www.cbc.ca

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Alex Beheshti

@beheshtialex

3 months

I live in the most construction intensive area in Canada. I have literally dozens of apartments under construction all around me plus a massive subway expansion going on. When hear people say the sky will fall if they have to live beside a duplex going up next door I laugh.

Moose Hamilton

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None of these “YIMBYs” are ever making an argument about what should be allowed in their own backyard. It’s always about what should be done in someone else’s backyard. It’s all simply false virtue frosting over basic petty envy.

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8 months

When I'd meet new people and they'd ask me what I do, I would tell them 'Im an urban planner. The response I would get early in my career would be "so you like work for the city?" The response I get today is often "oh you're one of those people who screwed up housing".

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@beheshtialex

8 months

This is not a starter home, not even close. This is luxury housing in Toronto and would cost around $1.5 million give or take depending on the area of the City. A starter home is more like a 600 sqft 1-bedroom in an apartment building.

Jerseygirl #FBR 🟧

@gggirl924

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Kids today wonder how our parents were able to survive with one paycheck. This is exactly how it was done. See the size of this house. This was normal when I was growing up. No 5 bedroom homes with 5 baths. Living and buying within your means. Starter homes.

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4 months

This post isnt an endorsement but I cant tell you folks what a watershed moment this is to have a politician outside of Toronto finally talk about moving away from this perverse planning practice. Angular planes, FSI caps, steps, and floor plates, are all regulations we need to

Saad Baig

@saadbaig3

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📣 This is the most comprehensive #HousingPlan I’ve ever seen from a mayoral candidate! 👏 ✅ ‘As-of-right’ 6-storeys on major streets with no poison pills ✅ TOCs, pre-zoned transit corridors, no height limits at key nodes, no parking minimums in MTSAs ✅ Tackling angular

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Alex Beheshti

@beheshtialex

3 months

For all the stupidity that goes on with planning in Vancouver, the one big credit I give them is they haven't bought into the stupidity of angular planes. You can really notice this when looking through applications with how many small to mid-sized rental apartments they

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@beheshtialex

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If you don't tax primary residences as well, this is simply a punative tax on renters. This is faux progressivism at its finest. It's so cowardly to say tax rental housing but not to tax primary residences.

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@beheshtialex

1 year

For perspective, a household at the 90th percentile (top 10% of households by income) in Toronto makes $205K but can only comfortably afford a home of no more than $755k. That means we dedicate half our rez land to a housing form that fewer than 10% of households can afford.

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@beheshtialex

1 year

Wild to see 'permanent' bike infrastructure in Toronto thats fused to the ground instead of either free floating or attached with screws/bolts.

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@beheshtialex

2 months

@26aball This might surprise you but most people aren't stupid actually. The only people who are stupid are those who think others are simpletons and cant see the 'big picture' you are painting. The fact of the reality is these are bedrock voters and if they're voting intentions are in

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8 months

@connordpeters @iamkennethchan The site still needs to be serviced and so that needs municipal approval since it cant provide for things like water and wastewater services.

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7 months

Just so we're all clear, most of these aren't physically built units. These are paper units in pre-launch. 95-99% of apartments are absorbed by completion. What 27 months of inventory means is a whole bunch of projects aren't going to the construction phase, which means a

John Pasalis

@JohnPasalis

7 months

Toronto's new condo market is sitting on 27 Months of Inventory Why? Because new condos are not affordable

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@beheshtialex

2 months

@EricDLombardi Some folks are going to try and hold this against you in the future I imagine but Im going to call it out that's just a cheap move. If we want to see people grow and learn, we have to give people space to do that. You've shown that you can listen, learn and grow here and that

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@beheshtialex

2 months

Its amazing how much this post triggered the Truanon crowd. Ive heard everything from 'your family are idiots who believe right-wing media' to 'going to the cottage makes you entitled and privileged so you have no right to complain' For the record, they don't read right-wing

Alex Beheshti

@beheshtialex

2 months

At the cottage with family this past long weekend and got talking about politics. Every single voting-age adult was like "I don't want to vote for Poilievre but I hate Trudeau and can't stomach voting for him again, I dont know who to vote for". My family has largely voted

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@beheshtialex

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I normally don't condone violence but sometimes some people deserve the ass-kicking that comes their way. Women Life Freedom

Omid Djalili

@omid9

1 year

Another bloke who’d been harassing & smacking women for not wearing hijab. The power of unity in the street #IranRevolution #MahsaAmini

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@beheshtialex

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$690k is not affordable but it's certainly attainable for a lot of people. We need to allow more of these homes to be built in more places. Also @TOAdamVaughan here is an example of how multiplex housing better retains its affordability and density doesn't add to costs.

Steve Fudge/Urbaneer

@urbaneer

3 years

One of my favourite buildings - called Audley Court - in the #Annex , #Toronto where a 2bed has just been listed for $689,000 - #TorontoCondo #TorontoRealEstate #TOrealestate #CanadianHousing #MissingMiddle #TorontoHeritage #TorontoHistory

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@beheshtialex

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You know what I love about the carbon rebate, it's one of the only cash transfers that unmarried working age adults without children get from the government, and we get it to help reduce carbon usage. Most other cash transfer programs are based on age or having kids. If

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1 year

I did a presentation to Toronto's Planning and Housing Committee the other day. Based on the feedback I got, I thought folks might be interested in a few of the slides I created. I won't be sharing every slide to keep this 🧵 shorter but I will include some of the more key ones.

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@beheshtialex

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In May of 2009 DC for a 2-bedroom apartment was $8,021 in the City of Toronto. Today it's $56,804 or a 610% increase. This doesn't include the alphabet soup of additional charges, many of which weren't a thing in 2009. Does someone want to explain to me how this is at all fair?

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@beheshtialex

1 year

As @acoyne points out in this article, our pop growth in recent yrs has been 2%, a very avg # given the historical context and hardly noteworthy. What is noteworthy is we are producing less housing than in the 70s. In other words, it's supply stupid.

Opinion: It’s not that we have too many people. It’s that we have too few houses

Claims that immigration is fuelling soaring house prices and weak productivity growth require closer examination

www.theglobeandmail.com

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@beheshtialex

11 months

“A ‘growth pays for growth’ approach ignores the value that new development, new property tax bases, new businesses, and new neighbours bring to our communities,” - @SeanFraserMP This is absolutely spot on and a thoughtful retort to a mindless mantra. Very refreshing stuff.

Dan Fumano

@fumano

11 months

NEW: Canada's housing minister has asked Metro Vancouver to pause proposed tripling of development fees, warning "drastic" hikes could deter housing supply. "Metro Vancouver's success is integral to the success of the country," the minster writes. Story:

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@beheshtialex

3 months

Without housing affordability you can have all the gangbusters growth you want but people are still going to say the world feels like shit. That's the reality of affordability and until that's fundamentally solved that's the politically reality.

Deonandan

@deonandan

3 months

But but but... everyone on Xitter tells me that this country is a third world shit show. Whom should I believe?

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@beheshtialex

11 months

I know I owe people a more in-depth look at this plan, will get to it when I dont have covid, but lets do a quick comparison to Mayor Chows plan released today. Chow - 30 billion 60,000 homes ONDP - 15 billion 250,000 himes. Which so you think is more realistic about the costs?

Ontario NDP

@OntarioNDP

11 months

You deserve a place to call home, in a neighbourhood you want to live in. Today, we introduced Homes Ontario: our plan to get government back in the business of building homes you can afford. 🔗

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@beheshtialex

3 months

Would love journalists to actually hold the City's feet to the fire on the issue of construction emissions in this discussion as well. Guess who forces the industry to build idiotic ziggurats that require more steels and cement and preclude the use of mass timber or modular that

The Narwhal

@thenarwhalca

3 months

Buildings are Toronto’s largest source of greenhouse gas emissions. Builders prefer to plan for low costs over low carbon, but the city’s ambitious net-zero plans might give them no choice. Part of our Green* Economy collab with @TheLocal_TO #topoli

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@beheshtialex

5 months

Municipalities shouldn't be in charge of approvals for medical facilities, change my mind.

Derrick

@DerrickSimpson_

5 months

Larga Baffin, a medical boarding facility in Ottawa for Inuit people, has reduced its number of proposed units from 220 to 176 based on complaints Kind of concerning that the complaints of well-off residents are put ahead of healthcare Notes from @Jessica_Ottawa ’s newsletter:

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@beheshtialex

1 year

It's amazing that interest rates are at a 20-year high but so is housing unaffordability. I distinctly remember being told by some very senior public planners when I was in planning school it was all interest rates and planning has nothing to do with affecting housing economics.

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@beheshtialex

4 months

@tylermeredith It has 2.2 million views with 4,700 likes...yikes.

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@beheshtialex

6 months

When a neighbourhood doesn't have enough housing, that's the local Councillor's problem. When a city with multiple neighbourhoods doesn't have enough housing, that's the Mayor's problem. When a region with multiple cities doesn't have enough housing, that's the Premier's

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@beheshtialex

2 years

This new tagline of "vertical sprawl" is so stupid. I've lived in some amazing high-rise buildings and some terrible ones but the difference between those setting had nothing to do with the number of units or height of the building.

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@beheshtialex

3 months

2,223 days to get approval to build 105 homes that are a mixture of singles and towns. 6 submissions/revisions to get staff to write an approval report for submission to committee. Credit to staff for putting this information up front in their report but this is seriously

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@beheshtialex

1 year

Canada and Toronto would be such an unreal place to live if it wasn't crippled by housing costs. The amount of potential we have is near limitless but the people holdings us back are our worst selves.

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@beheshtialex

6 months

Can someone PLEASE make @beynate the Minister for the Environment already! This is the exact response liberals need to be making daily if they want any chance of saving carbon pricing and their own asses. The truth is there isn't a credible economist out there who will tell you

Nate Erskine-Smith

@beynate

6 months

There is a legitimate affordability crisis that we ought to take seriously. But blaming that affordability crisis on the carbon price is wrong and deeply cynical.

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Alex Beheshti

@beheshtialex

5 months

COA needs to be either heavily curtailed in use or eliminated. Why are we allowing neighbors to pick neighbors. The people on the board are often not experts nor were they democratically elected. Delegate this to staff already and hold their feet to the fire through council.

Chris Spoke

@ChrisSpoke

5 months

Toronto’s Committee of Adjustments just refused an application for minor variances on an infill proposal that features ten family-sized units in walking distance to two subway stations in Canada’s largest and most expensive city. The member who moved the motion to refuse said

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@beheshtialex

6 months

New homes pay: Development Charges Parkland contributions Community Benifit Charges (CBC) Inclusionary Zoning (upcoming) Education Development Charges (EDC) Application fees Permit fees HST Land Transfer Tax Yea it's a lot....

Eric Lombardi

@EricDLombardi

6 months

It is not possible for the market to build housing affordably if $200K+ in taxes are applied to every new unit. If housing is a human right, then why do governments tax shelter like a sin?

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@beheshtialex

1 year

Urban planners daily put themselves and the profession into further disrepute with their actions. When I go to parties and tell folks what I do, increasingly I dont hear "oh cool" "what does that mean" etc What I hear is "oh youre one of those people that messed everything up"

Jennifer 麻衣子 Bradshaw she/her/彼女🔰

@amoralorealis

1 year

Fuck, and I cannot emphasize this enough, you

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Alex Beheshti

@beheshtialex

7 months

@kiangoh In case you miss it

Jordan Grimes🚰

@cafedujord

7 months

Incorrect! Real Swifties know that Taylor is absolutely an urbanist

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@beheshtialex

5 months

I dont regret the government taking action on vacant homes, foreign buyers, money laundering, interest rates, and all the rest because all the folks who promoted this stuff can show the public exactly 0 results, which goes to show how seriously we should take anything they say in

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@beheshtialex

1 year

There are a bunch of NDP-aligned housing economists and policy analysts who are all bright people and experts in housing who I know would say this is dumb. What's wild to me is that it seems none of the comms folks on Singh's team seems to have thought to tap into them.

Jagmeet Singh

@theJagmeetSingh

1 year

Under Justin Trudeau – a couple with a variable mortgage rate will have to pay $1,713 more a month to afford their home. That's over $500k in additional interest over the life of their mortgage. Families everywhere have been given a mortgage bombshell. They need support.

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@beheshtialex

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Production value is good. Message is crisp and direct. And this with land like a thud because the government is 2 years too late to the conversation on housing. I also doubt they are putting money behind this so people see and hear it, but even if folks do I feel as if many

Sean Fraser

@SeanFraserMP

6 months

Pierre doesn't care.

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@beheshtialex

7 months

Has anyone considered a vacant hospital bed tax or an aging speculation tax to solve this demand issue? All we need to do to fix health care is reduce "toxic" demand for health care by getting people to stop aging or getting sick. What a stupid take for the ages 🤦🏻‍♂️

The Hill Times

@TheHillTimes

7 months

New study says long waits for health care in Canada are driven by high demand, not low supply of doctors. By @Campbellian_ #cdnpoli (subs)

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Alex Beheshti

@beheshtialex

1 year

Have a ton of liberal friends right now in private chats who are all hella embarrassed about this tweet. All my NDP friends are like "are the liberals trying to make it easy for the tories?". All my Conservative friends are like "this is amazingly bad, please keep it coming"

Ahmed Hussen

@HonAhmedHussen

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Now is the time for solutions, not political theatre. While Pierre Poilievre & the Conservatives are focused on cuts & far-right rhetoric,we are focused on one thing: bringing everyone to the table to get the affordable homes Canadians need, built now.

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