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[–] Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 days ago
[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (3 children)

But PP said "build the houses" so they must have a serious plan. Right? Right?

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago

His plan was to raise taxes on people whose communities don’t increase their population by 5% each year and ban public transit from servicing commercial areas

[–] Someone@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

⅔ of their plan sounds excellent, but any plan where "the" makes up a third of the words is missing some real substance.

[–] teppa@piefed.ca 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Tying immigration to housing completions was his plan. Removing gst on housing was originally his idea. There was rezoning for density around transit and withholding federal funds from areas that don't build fast enough to encourage rezoning and reducing development taxes. Then there was selling off federal buildings and land to build housing. He also criticized the BoC for ignoring inflation and doing QE, because it rewarded asset holders, and he even said he would fire Tiff Macklem for ignoring his inflation mandate.

Now we have a housing minister who says housing is an investment, and Carney himself essentially repeated that in a round about way. Elbows up for homelessness.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XnkpiYLI7IY

https://www.conservative.ca/building-homes-not-bureaucracy/

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Because they have their marching order wishlists from Pathways Alliance and other oil lobbies.

[–] LostWon@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

I think in this case it's more likely because most are profiting from being landlords (or their spouses are).

[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

Why so serious??

[–] DistressedDad@lemmy.ca 1 points 12 hours ago

Why are they trying to build more houses when we have a surplus of units? Builders aren’t building anymore because their existing inventory isn’t selling.

They won’t drop prices because of greed and using real estate as investments. So now we have immigrants with low-paying jobs trying to buy homes with inflated price tags.

Either lower prices of homes or start paying workers more so they can afford homes.