tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400574.post2430970569687402297..comments2024-03-28T04:04:03.006-07:00Comments on Paying attention: 'Innovative' deal with developer needs better process (Note: The column is better than that terrible headline)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400574.post-39383865923365360512009-12-13T08:13:09.169-08:002009-12-13T08:13:09.169-08:00Thanks Paul, great reporting! I knew there had to...Thanks Paul, great reporting! I knew there had to be a real story behind the "good news" press release.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400574.post-52200959424702408872009-12-12T11:42:46.774-08:002009-12-12T11:42:46.774-08:00what a cesspool.what a cesspool.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400574.post-77690582793184686692009-12-11T23:25:46.074-08:002009-12-11T23:25:46.074-08:00Townline and their affiliates have donated $34,500...Townline and their affiliates have donated $34,500.00 to the Liberal Party in the last four years. Just amazing!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400574.post-61518063815889097892009-12-11T20:36:34.942-08:002009-12-11T20:36:34.942-08:00Thanks for the details behind this announcement, I...Thanks for the details behind this announcement, I was surprised by the lack of detail.<br /><br />You have raised some serious questions as to the real issues behind the developers actions.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400574.post-56668241305768567012009-12-11T09:59:58.355-08:002009-12-11T09:59:58.355-08:00So taxpayers are investing $17 million ($212,000 e...So taxpayers are investing $17 million ($212,000 each) to give 80 tenants a 10% discount on their rents? <br /><br />Are you serious!!!!!! Do you have any idea what we'd have to invest to resolve housing affordability and housing in BC at that rate? Does Rich Coleman think we're all morons?<br /><br />How much does a 10% discount on rent amount to per year for each unit? <br /><br />If we'd simply invested $17 million over time in a rental subsidy program and assumed absolutely no risk, how many years of the rental subsidy would that have covered (also taking into account the reduced carrying costs) and how does that compare to the expected life of the building?<br /><br />Or better still, how about simply upping taxes on all the speculators who own 3rd, 4th and 5th homes? Put those revenues towards housing the homeless and the tax itself would help take some heat out of our over-heated markets, which resolves affordability. <br /><br />Governments have no business playing in private enterprise - if Rich Coleman wants to play developer, he needs to quit government and go play with his own money, not ours.<br /><br />And I'd really love to know who else has financial interests in the company that seems to be holding all the cards here, TL Housing Solutions.Dawn Steelenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400574.post-80230432154331806392009-12-11T08:18:35.371-08:002009-12-11T08:18:35.371-08:00Rich Coleman's tenure as Minister of Forests s...Rich Coleman's tenure as Minister of Forests stands as an enduring testimonial to that individual's ethics, to his business acumen, as well as to his regard for the interests of average British Columbians. What could you possibly be worried about? While to many of us he might appear to be a species of dullard, I'm confident that those who are close enough to know him well would absolutely endorse his involvement in this and any other P3's he deems to be meritorious.<br /><br />RaymondAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com