One suggestion on the housing shortage in town would be to mandate that all international students coming to study with the university should ONLY be allowed to stay on the campus [then you put the pressure on Mt.A. to house them not take up the units available from the locals in our town] ... this should ease up more suites and various homes in the town for the locals that are currently struggling to find housing. Easy enough ..... Supply and demand addressed by a simple policy change... many international students come to this town as an immigration point of entry which is fine; once they have gained resident status they would be eligible to look for local housing but many of them don't stay long enough to them this is a passing-through time which is fine ... just consider them 'visitors' rather than 'residents' and this would create much more local housing availability and possibly lower costs for existing renters too.... they are guests here in our nation, after all so they shouldn't find it inconvenient to be on the campus rather than off the campus. Mount Allison University is a very lucrative enterprise that could easily build more accommodation if they chose to... money is flowing in large amounts there.
Housing crisis has been manufactured by the very people who now think they can solve the problem.
Communitarians.... how do you recognize them? They like to start 'coalitions'... such as:
Tantramar Affordable Housing Initiative (facebook.com) [Alice Cotton ran for town council and lost]
Alice C Cotton
Florence at their Facebook page writes:
The politicians have created the 'crisis' with their awful submission to U.N. 'smartgrowth' policies... interesting to see them now suggest the 'solutions'... 'micro and small homes'... why?! Do not look to politicians to fix supply and demand problems... you will only grow a larger more dependant nannystate here!! Nova Scotia's Elizabeth on Facebook says:
One final thought on housing: perhaps if the local highschool had not removed the workshop class [replacing it with wetlands education] that was historically producing highly accomplished, handy, capable and skilled students able to use tools such as saws, hammers, measuring tapes, drills, and other woodworking devices to construct and build with that maybe they would have created a culture of 'builders' from the local Tantramar High School instead of what now appears to be a selection of wannabe pond gazing environmentalists and social justice minions who only grow the 'chattering class' and don't produce anything tangible or of value... just a thought. Not sure who the genius was who removed this technical aspect of high school education but shame on you... you've robbed these young people of some very valuable and practical educational training and confidence building work. I'm fairly certain this was not an accident or an oversight but part of the 'deliberate dumbing down agenda' here by the technocrats.
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