this post was submitted on 13 Aug 2023
303 points (97.5% liked)

Canada

7203 readers
161 users here now

What's going on Canada?

Communities

🍁 Meta

🗺️ Provinces / Territories

🏙️ Cities / Local Communities

🏒 SportsHockey

Football (NFL)

  • List of All Teams: unknown

Football (CFL)

  • List of All Teams: unknown

Baseball

Basketball

Soccer

💻 Universities

💵 Finance / Shopping

🗣️ Politics

🍁 Social and Culture

Rules

Reminder that the rules for lemmy.ca also apply here. See the sidebar on the homepage:

https://lemmy.ca/

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
otter@lemmy.ca
303
Mayor can’t afford to buy a house in her own town (kitchener.ctvnews.ca)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by sbv@sh.itjust.works to c/canada@lemmy.ca
33 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] wozomo@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Who you calling a NIMBY? Did you even read the article you posted?

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

She’s quite literally the opposite of a NIMBY.

[–] SonnyVabitch@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

If she can't afford to live there then it's by definition not her backyard..

[–] mayonaise_met@feddit.nl 4 points 1 year ago

I don't think he called the mayor a nimby.