Laneway Homes: Hate 'em or love 'em?

This Toronto Star article doesn't discuss our area, but The Annex and environs is home to its fair share of laneway homes. It's an eye opener to walk up Croft Street (two streets east of Bathurst; walk north from College Street).
But what I find most interesting about the article are the comments from the public. I find laneway homes desirable and innovative; apparently not everyone does!
Here's a sampling:

"Density woes a self-created problemWhy are we pushing people to live in such conditions? Not to mention the insane price of housing. Build proper transit connecting all parts of the GTA. Control immigration to be in line with infrastructure. Or we can do like Toronto councillors, force density without care of infrastructure or quality of life... long as we have the banner word DENSITY."

"Vaughan and Perks - kings of density without infrastructure
Toronto's Official City plan has lots of great ways of minimizing density problems - but if you give your favourite socialist Councillors a few million dollars to play with for their (secret) pet projects you can build whatever you want. These two fellows even managed to bankrupt street-food vendors and yet their incompetence on infrastructure gets cheers from the left. How sad for us."

"An Expensive Means to an EndOur infastructure cannot support such housing in laneways. Creating another cabbage town makes my stomach churn. So much around the GTA, but our former mayor Miller said ride a bike and take the subway. Well in his entire term of office, he did nothing to improve public transit and purposely put the people of Toronto at risk not spending the $50 mil winfall two years ago on the Gardiner.""Who exactly want to live in the Density nightmareWhy are people so interested in living on top of each other. How many jobs can be in downtown Toronto to sustain this growth in population. I am already seeing that professional Jobs are paying less and less in Toronto. When will the tipping point be more that more people are leaving Toronto to go work than coming in each day."