The housing strategy treats homes as units and cities as spreadsheets. What it ignores is movement: transit capacity is the invisible foundation of every affordable neighborhood, and it is missing from the plan. The Canada Strong Pass discounts fares on systems that are already too full to board — a coupon for congestion.
Transit capital funding has not kept pace with the government’s own housing targets. The result is the familiar Canadian contradiction: new towers approved beside platforms that cannot absorb them, and affordability measured in rent while the real cost — two hours of commute — goes uncounted.
Housing without transit is housing in the wrong places. A government that will not fund the pipes of urban movement cannot claim to be fixing the city; it is only adding pressure to it.
The Point: You cannot build affordability where people cannot move. A housing plan with no transit plan is a density plan with a congestion surcharge.