"getting everyone to agree to some sort of better city"
They're talking about creating a new city, not reusing the existing empty housing.
Even if you can work from anywhere (which ignores many industries), this only satisfies that one requirement. Some people might see the snow and cold as a deal breaker. Others might not want to move there because it's far from family. A typical theme on related posts of relocating for remote work is that they want some combination of educated population, technology culture/groups, and some sort of specific government/community resource. The list goes on.
The nature of the housing problem is that people want to live in very specific areas and then it snowballs. Remote work today should allow a considerable number of people to move out of SV, Toronto, etc. Yet most are staying. There are cheaper and better (depending on specific desires) options, yet they are not often explored. It's basically group-think. I don't see a new city solving that, since once it becomes popular, it too will suffer from demand effects.
Right, but like people didn't do all of that negative thinking with some random dogcoin. They poured in. If you told me there were 10k well trusted artistic people with a great deal of interest in starting a high density, non-car-centric city in the middle of Ontario I would join. I would buy the lot of land on Kickstarter. I would list my friends that I trusted. I would help solve the problems around figuring out internet and transit.
But nobody in Canada is offering this to me because even though this is better for the world, this takes real work. Instead they want to pump crypto and stock market scams because the payoff is short term and because they're naturally cynical.
"Right, but like people didn't do all of that negative thinking with some random dogcoin. They poured in."
Because the ante is low. Throw a few hundred or thousand at a chance to be rich is way easier than to uproot your life to move to a fledgling city that nobody knows how it will work out, and you still have to work.
"But nobody in Canada is offering this to me because even though this is better for the world, this takes real work."
Maybe this is an opportunity for you to offer it to yourself and others. Start the movement! If you wait for others to do it, it might not happen. If not you, then who?
They're talking about creating a new city, not reusing the existing empty housing.
Even if you can work from anywhere (which ignores many industries), this only satisfies that one requirement. Some people might see the snow and cold as a deal breaker. Others might not want to move there because it's far from family. A typical theme on related posts of relocating for remote work is that they want some combination of educated population, technology culture/groups, and some sort of specific government/community resource. The list goes on.
The nature of the housing problem is that people want to live in very specific areas and then it snowballs. Remote work today should allow a considerable number of people to move out of SV, Toronto, etc. Yet most are staying. There are cheaper and better (depending on specific desires) options, yet they are not often explored. It's basically group-think. I don't see a new city solving that, since once it becomes popular, it too will suffer from demand effects.