In reply to Daniel Choma.

And before I get urbanist Bro'd here, I'm not saying Don't build housing. And I'm not saying NIMBY, even though I think that acronym essentially means nothing and it's just something urbanists say to act tough on twitter.

But people have legitimate reasons for hating TIFF funding and some of those legitimate reasons are based on real lived experiences with TIFF funding where TIFF funding leads to displacement of themselves or those they love, often in defense of either luxury apartments or a stadium.

So I get that people need to really discuss the ins and outs of good city planning, but city planners need to be aware that a large portion of the city experiences their city planning as largely a negative thing.

All I can say is that it makes me very very very very wary to place so much faith in the market forces that make the theory of TIFF funding work when unchecked market forces are arguably the same thing that has led to housing shortages and homelessness in the first place.

I'm sure I'm not woke enough or not smart enough or not Sven enough. But man, people have right to be scared of TIFF funding because of how many times it's been used in bad ways.