Promising housing plan must undergo evaluation Victoria residents will weigh in this evening on the city’s missing middle housing initiative, arguably the most important piece of legislation of this o
utgoing council.
That said — despite these reservations and concerns about process, divisions on council, and public opposition — the housing crisis for ordinary families has long reached a critical stage and must be addressed. The proposed solution of a vacancy tax on the 20 per cent of properties that remain vacant for more than six months a year will do nothing to improve the situation because they’ve never been part of the long-term rental inventory, rents would be too expensive for the average worker even if they were, and the owners like to keep these vacation properties at their disposal 12 months a year and likely pay whatever tax was required to do so.
I have one. Plug it in at night and it costs me about $7-8, whereas it used to cost me up to $200 at Costco after driving across town to save $15 on a tank. Plus I’m not spending as much money on servicing the car. Similarly, natural gas displaced coal-generated household gas for cooking and heating. Another case of a cleaner-burning fossil fuel displacing another.
A failure to recognize the above by our “green” politicians impedes their ability to develop positive solutions. The 1995 Nobel prize for chemistry was won by three scientists who used the detector to warn that chlorofluorocarbons were a danger to the ozone layer. Some thought Lovelock should have shared the award.
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