Affordable Villages vs Affordable Homes

What Canadians need are jobs and economic opportunity. A home does not make a healthy village; the interconnection of opportunity and community does.

Governments, the media, and Canadians are consistently speaking about the requirement of affordable homes. While housing is a component, we used to move to places that offered economic opportunity and then set up our abode. Modern policy must return to this logic.

The affordable home policy must consider the entire aspect of economic potentials. By focusing on thriving villages rather than just housing units, we create a much more efficient way of fostering long-term job creation and social health.