Storage of living

[dianora]

Judging by all the new builds I see lately we will have more space for our useless junk we store than for people to actually live in. Apart from the new large building going up at the old Canadian tire at Clyde and Baseline I noted a new large building up at Lincoln fields which has actually been up for a while.
So we pay good money to store stuff we likely will never use but meanwhile we have a homeless problem and housing shortage.

Comments

[blogcutter]

I don't get that argument at all! Would you prefer to have "massive" storage facilities on prime farmland instead?? Besides, many of the people availing themselves of the storage would not necessarily have their own wheels or ready access to someone to schlepp them out there every time they want to sort through their belongings. And just think of the environmental impact of all those big rigs spouting big fumes as they motor past and back into the fringe! No, I think it makes sense for them to have ready access to their stuff so they can sort through it a bit at a time. And by the way, I question whether the storage units are really that massive. You can store a fair amount of goods in a fairly limited space, especially if they can be dismantled when not in use.