Ont. mayor can’t afford to buy house in township she leads
kitchener.ctvnews.ca
Waterloo Region’s red-hot housing market hits close to home for Wilmot Township Mayor Natasha Salonen.

Time to loosen zoning restrictions and say no to NIMBYs Ms. Mayor. *

Despite earning around $90,000 a year between her work as mayor, regional councillor and with the local electric utility, she says she can’t afford to buy a home in the municipality she leads.

* yeah, she’s still paying off student loans, and I don’t know what zoning restrictions are like in her community. But still.

  • Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world
    451·
    11 months ago

    Salonen supports last month’s announcement to build 10,000 affordable and attainable homes in the region by 2030.

    • wozomo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      131·
      11 months ago

      Yeah, seems like the poster didn’t read the actual article, either

    • Rodeo@lemmy.ca
      111·
      11 months ago

      That’s a project from Habitat for Humanity.

      Vocalizing support for someone else’s project is a far cry from starting your own projects.

      Maybe she is doing something, I don’t know, but the example you gave isn’t a good one.

    • Dearche@lemmy.ca
      5·
      11 months ago

      Pretty much every city in the country needs like ten times that much before things’ll start getting better.

      All these proposals are like trying to fight a forest fire with a squirt gun.