New infill housing is luxury housing.
· our own hypothesis, from the founder, as a suggested claim
No captured post makes this claim, and "luxury" has no definition on which either side could lose.
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Every claim we've considered
This site checks factual claims about Edmonton that circulate. Before any claim is checked, a short triage (methodology v1.12) asks who is asking it, whether the public record can answer it, and which verdicts would surprise anyone. Every claim we have considered is listed below with the outcome, whether a reader sent it, the founder passed it on, or it was our own idea, and including the ones we declined, so nobody has to wonder why a claim was not checked.
Declined
Earth is flat
· passed to us, source not captured, from the founder, as a test case for the triage and this register
Neither a factual claim about Edmonton nor a claim shown circulating locally, so it falls outside the site's scope.
The Edmonton Oilers are held back from glory intentionally by the NHL because the fan base is smaller and more loyal than larger (American) markets
· passed to us, source not captured, from the founder, as a test case for the triage and this register
Public NHL records can compare penalties, reviews and discipline across teams, but cannot establish a deliberate market-based scheme, and this exact claim has not been shown circulating.
Parked
The houses being torn down for infill were more affordable than what replaces them.
· our own hypothesis, from the founder, as a suggested claim in his critique of the published story
The question is about the same lots, and Edmonton publishes nothing that joins a demolished house to what replaced it; a category comparison would answer a different question.
A median-income Edmonton household cannot afford new infill housing.
· our own hypothesis, from the founder, as a suggested claim
Published new-home prices do not identify infill by dwelling form; the claim reopens if the record does, or if it is narrowed to all new housing citywide.
Checked, not answered
AFFORDABLE!?! Have you looked at the prices of these houses?! A $350,000 house is torn down and a $1,000,000 house goes up in its place!!
· passed to us, source not captured, from the founder
Checked before triage existed, three runs, both claims Not established. A triage read then parked both: the price gap needs a decade-scale lot-by-lot linkage the run did not build, and no public record says what the housing that replaced particular demolished homes costs. The story is no longer a finding until one of those exists.
Checked before triage existed
Proper management and fewer pet projects is a good start. We've had low density housing in this city for 100 years. Many neighbourhoods were planned around it.
· passed to us, source not captured, from the founder
Checked before triage existed; the run stopped in its first round because one of the three reviewing models returned nothing after six attempts, so nothing was published. It runs again once that is fixed.