After selling his software business for millions, Marcel Lebrun decided to pour his time and money into an affordable housing project in Fredericton. CBC’s Harry Forestell takes a closer look at the 12 Neighbours community and its impact on the people who live there.
There’s a lot of negativity in this thread. I think people often forget that perfect is the enemy of good. Cheap housing is objectively a good thing.
The problem is that millionaires and billionaires have discovered mobile home parks as a good way to extract whatever remaining money poor people have:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCC8fPQOaxU
This “charity move” stinks as yet another craven money grab.
Honestly, my biggest worry/criticism is that there is no way to prevent these 99 homes from becoming 99 Airbnb’s.
Don’t think there is any way for them to prevent that though.
I’m actually surprised big hotel hasn’t tried to have air bnb outlawed.
I’m not even sure which monster to root for there.