Last summer, when Calgary city council approved blanket rezoning to allow development of multi-unit housing types where previously only detached or semi-detached homes were allowed, it wasn’t clear how much of an effect the change would have on housing supply and affordability.

However, one thing that was certain was that blanket rezoning would be a hot topic in the next civic election. That election is now here and the heat is rising.

At the time, the Calgary Real Estate Board spoke out against blanket rezoning for a number of reasons. These included risks such as congestion on roads that weren’t designed for the traffic that accompanies increased density, added strain on infrastructure such as water and sewage, and an analysis of our real-time housing market data that told us rezoning

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