It  is  simplistic  to  blame  the  Greenbelt  for  Toronto  housing  prices  but  it  is  naive  to  deny  that  the  Greenbelt  is  not  one  of  the  forces  behind  rising  prices.

People  tend  to  look  at  the  prices  of  single  family  homes  when  talking  about  the  real  estate  market  but  the  market  is  really  a  collection  of  markets  for  different  types  of  residences  in  different  parts  of  the  GTA  with  some  substitution  between  them.

Increasing  the  supply  of  multi  family  lowrise  units  should  take  some  of  the  demand  from  single  family  homes  but  it  won't  totally  substitute  for  that  demand  no  matter  how  much  planners  say  it  should.

Planners  and  politicians  need  to  accept  that  the demand  is  there  and  if  supply  won't  meet  it  prices  will  increase  until  supply  balances  with  supply.