Perhaps I could point to what this would have meant to one city, the city of Edmonton, had it happened there. Edmonton has just identified a need and a plan to try to produce 2,500 units of affordable housing within five years. I seriously doubt they can do it with the resources that are available, just because of the cost of land now and the limitation on how much is available. This would have meant that those 2,500 units of housing could have been dropped into that one place, very comfortably, for a wonderful community of very affordable housing.
Really, who exactly dropped the ball here? And how would you find that out?