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Cost of housing in Canada

You’re probably not a great example due to the huge rural catchment of our city. I think he’s talking more the kind of suburb I’m in and less where you are. I can walk to the stop sign, look around, and see city transit, municipal sewer, an occasional cop car… Easy walk to a municipal rec centre, there’s a police station in my suburb, a shitty train, etc etc. Everything out here has to be much less dense and spread out than providing the same services to denser suburban neighbourhoods within the greenbelt, or to truly urban neighbourhoods closer in to downtown. There’s also all of the municipal ‘operating cost’ that you won’t see when you step outside and look around, but that we all pay for.
Dude, you’re like…urban, brah! I bet your neighbors don’t have chickens…
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Savvy municipalities require developers to pay all or part of the cost of the service and infrastructure upgrades. Then they're on the hook for maintenance and replacement.
Until senior governments get involved.


 
Kind of looks like a boot if you tilt your head right. From Gov archives: The Changing Shape of Ontario: Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton

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It's the former Carleton County and all of its municipalities lumped into one. Ontario went through a period of that; Chatham-Kent, Greater Sudbury, City of Kawartha Lakes. Not as large a population base but the same single-tier concept, and the same grumblings about from the rural folk subsidizing urban services.
 
It's the former Carleton County and all of its municipalities lumped into one. Ontario went through a period of that; Chatham-Kent, Greater Sudbury, City of Kawartha Lakes. Not as large a population base but the same single-tier concept, and the same grumblings about from the rural folk subsidizing urban services.
And same grumblings of rural folks issues ignored for the more urban ones.
 
How many Canadians are "rural folks"?

Accordint to Statistics Canada, in 2021, there were 5,957,695 rural persons.

As far as who subsidises who, The City of Mississauga has been trying to get a divorce from The Region of Peel for decades.

 
How many Canadians are "rural folks"?

Accordint to Statistics Canada, in 2021, there were 5,957,695 rural persons.

As far as who subsidises who, The City of Mississauga has been trying to get a divorce from The Region of Peel for decades.

I went into the StatsCan page and looked at the 'rural data viewer'


A lot of what they include as "urban" is most definitely rural (the brown areas - zoom into the GTA). We lived in rural Durham Region and paid both township and regional taxes. We fronted on a provincial highway. Well and septic, a volunteer fire service, garbage collection was an additional line item on the taxes. I struggled to see what benefit we got from the regional portion of our taxes. In a single tier like Ottawa, it is likely less clear. The only savings would likely be a lower mil rate or lower assessment value for rural properties.

As for Brampton, its battle is mostly with Mississauga about how much they have to contribute to the region. I see at least the region has divested its road network to the member municipalities. The cost of membership might be high, but the cost of divorce is often higher.
 
I guess The City of Mississauga looks at it this way,

Mississauga, Ontario's third largest city, wants the same political power that other cities in the province already enjoy, including London, Guelph, Windsor, Thunder Bay and Dryden, she argued.

With 52 per cent of Peel's population, Mississauga covers 60 per cent of the region's budget, subsidizing the other municipalities. At the same time, it has only 50 per cent of the vote, which means there is no representation by population at the region.

More in article,

 
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