The Canadian left seems to be slowly moving away from its rigid anti-developer stance, which is good because the left position has generally been to further discipline developers to the point of restricting housing supply, while never putting up enough money to grow the public housing stock
!["[...]shared endeavors should be a non-political, and so in a way ‘private, activity is to underestimate the necessity of these practices and connections for people’s pursuit of their values. For in an area where such ties are either not established or disintegrate, the effectiveness of the principles of justice to ''hat degree breaks down. (Recall that the
communitarian argument pointed to the need for shared civic identity
focused on the promotion of community values for the stability that
enforcing rules of justice requires.) It then becomes a matter of justice,
not merely expediency, to foster the social cohesion necessary for principles of right to have effect. Moreover, the line between public and
private here is an exceptionally blurry one, as state power is used in
many ways to indirectly foster the collective activity of groups and the
general public which, in turn, creates this kind of civic feeling. Public
parks, city plazas, public television and radio, monuments and museums, neighborhood murals, meetings spaces, and countless other supplementary resources are generally provided by political institutions (that is, paid for by public money) and are essential for the successful carrying out of the collective activity we are considering. Political acts —
legislative provisions and the use of public funding — are necessary to
support these communal actions; without such state action, this activity would almost certainly devolve (a tendency we will say more about
in a moment), so in so far as they are necessary to support just institutions, then state action (direct or indirect) is necessary for their
existence. The good of supporting these sorts of group activities in support of common aims goes hand in hand with enforcing justice, rather
than occupying a lower priority in the ordering of political provisions."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ngaowosynwa7kcjz7eyu7kmc/bafkreieauurzu3mzzcbism5nokwlrel4hhnm7yhofzjcrj4zthc5a6zqwi)
