Imagine trying to build them when a lot of land costs a million dollars and the house costs 300k; due to greenbelt that never used to exist, zoning that was a lot less regressive, and developer taxes were a tiny fraction what they are now.
We need to either lower the barriers or we need to stop the outrageous growth, as the missing middle podcast always says.
Sure we flooded the economy with cheap labor to depress wages, and we are buying half of all mortgage bonds to balloon home values and further indebt Canadians with full recourse loans, but heres a small handful of rentals, so we do care!
Though Carney is even more conservative than Pierre. His first act was gutting the carbon tax and the generational fairness capital gain taxes, his second act was promoting a housing minister that specifically says housing is an investment.
If the NDP wasn't co-opted by the Mazerati in a Rolex we may have had a shot at someone good, but alas.
China does devalue their dollar to prop up their production. Though we arguably do the same by buying mortgage bonds and discounting home values in the CPI to keep our money loose.
Wayland or bust.
Because companies don't secure their systems. Its like they are leaving out unguarded cash registers and are telling people not to touch it as their main method of security.
Say we overhauled our firefighting and massively expanded controlled burns would that help, or would it just draw out the smoke inhilation at lower levels?
Can't provide employment or affordable housing to our youth, but we can shame their for their totally unexplainable drug use.
We need to rename all these streets and replace statues due to past transgression. But the monarch that pushed colonialization all over the world gets a pass due to fun crowns and funny accents.
Do all the highest cost businesses not all have the largest government regulation?
Telecoms, housing, dairy and cheese, alcohol; even maple syrup is a cartel in Canada, its not normal that a tiny glass bottle should be so expensive.