Randall Denley: All three levels of government are working to help eliminate types of housing people want so they can build more of what they don’t want.

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The City of Ottawa is about to pass new zoning rules that can fundamentally change the nature of any established single-family-home street in the city by allowing three-storey, multi-residential buildings. These new lot-filling behemoths don’t even have to provide parking.

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The city’s new rules reflect the wishes of the federal and provincial governments, but council is not doing it grudgingly. Councillors are enthused about this new attempt to provide more density in older neighbourhoods.

Unfortunately, this new approach creates an unwanted uncertainty in established neighbourhoods. When people bought houses on established streets of single-family houses, they had decades of evidence to suggest........

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