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Short sighted? This was the plan!! Do you not realize how insanely wealthy people have gotten off of housing and monopolies? It's not corruption, Canada was literally created by corporations for the purpose of facilitating their extraction of value from natural and human resources. This is Canada as it was designed: a colonialist nation that exists to exploit us.
Don't fall for the bullshit folklore we tell ourselves.
The housing crisis we are experiencing is part of how the ruling class manipulate us in the first place. The looming threat of homelessness if we are not constantly productive (as in generating value for capitalists) keeps us working shitty jobs for unfair wages.
The Boomers are still a powerful voting block and they are bought off with their "real estate investments" or what the rest of us would just consider a place to sleep where you don't freeze to death and people don't steal your clothes. They all get to LARP as wealthy capitalists and fuck everyone else. Anything that solves the housing crisis is necessarily going to absolutely tank the value of their homes, so until they all die off that can never actually happen because their vastly overvalued homes are their retirement investments. Fix housing for us, and we get a whole wave of homeless Boomers who can't afford to support themselves.
Which would look SO good on them, but it's just not going to happen unless we pull a France. And even then we just go back to the status quo of homelessness still being a threat used against us, but only affecting about 1/3 as many as it is right now.
https://truthout.org/articles/we-could-end-homelessness-right-now-if-only-capitalism-didnt-get-in-the-way/
https://truthout.org/articles/homelessness-one-of-capitalism-s-many-inevitable-products/