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Opinion: It’s not that we have too many people. It’s that we have too few houses
(www.theglobeandmail.com)
this post was submitted on 13 Sep 2023
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Typical G&M flame bait. Blaming immigrants and JT for the immigration policies. Let's toss in the health care problems too. Why are the liberals doing this to us? Crocodile tears
No mention of speculative investment in housing, greedy landlords jacking up rents, corpo land holdings, foreign land holders, claw backs on infrastructure grants, complicated building laws, red tape and all that.
This tripe from the Postmedia network is more distraction from the real news.
Update: Whoops. Here I'm talking shit about G&M and they are not owned by Postmedia. I'm not a fan, but I did misrepresent the paper, and this article. I suppose that I'm so used to conservative shit, that I might scan articles leaning to the right. I'll do better.
Im sorry are we reading the same article? It's clearly saying immigrants are not to blame as growth rates are the same as what they've always been and the supply of housing is the actual problem.
So wait, this comment is +20 despite the fact that it's complete nonsense. I'm not blaming u/willybe since he's obviously learning a lesson about shooting from the hip and is taking that to heart, but the pile of upvotes says something very bad about the !canada Lemmy community. Our politics may be different from the old /r/Canada community, but it doesn't seem like we're any more reasonable than they were.
Okay, you got me. The G&M, the conservative shill piece that it is, put out an article that leads the reader in a couple of circles to come around and ponders this thought...
As you pointed out the article isn't blaming increased immigration. But it also isn't pointing fingers at property for profit. Instead the problem eludes to barriers to investment and housing construction.
Don't forget so many people moving away from long-term rentals to short term unregulated rentals like AirBNB.
Years ago I remember a whole new apartment building being built in Charlottetown, PEI, that was only greenlit on the condition that it wouldn't be used for short term rentals, because vacancy was under 1%, and about a week before it was ready for people to move in they changed their mind and decided to use it for short term rentals. A whole building.
It's long past time that AirBNB was regulated.
Just rental property ownership in general.
You know Postmedia doesn't own the G&M, right?
Whoops! OMG, that's embarrassing. Thanks for the heads up