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Homelessness is caused by: 1) Drug addiction (addicts and the mentally ill are no longer rational actors and it's cruel to treat them as such, stop paying them

by moltke 5y ago

Homelessness is caused by: 1) Drug addiction (addicts and the mentally ill are no longer rational actors and it's cruel to treat them as such, stop paying them to sleep on the sidewalk) 2) Immigration (like it or not, pumping up demand weather they're paying for it or the government makes housing much more expensive for everyone.) 3) Cheap credit (Everyone knows how this works and worse still it directly effects the most disadvantaged while funneling their money to the wealthy.) 4) High cost of construction labor 5) Material supply chain issues (which is largely the same as the last two, it's all just inflation.) 6) Expensive regulation that adds to construction cost (zoning, building codes etc.) Housing is part of it but not the only part. Some of these things could be easily fixed in ways that benefit everyone who lives here (housed or not.) No one in charge wants to though and you should be asking why.

HideousKojima 5y ago
Specifically in regards to 2: Canada constructed 244,025 new homes in 2021[0] (this includes new condos and apartments). By comparison, Canada allowed 401,000 new permanent residents through immigration in 2021[1]. Now obviously some of those immigrants are going to be families that only need one home, but basically almost all of the new housing supply being created in Canada is so small that it could be bought up by the new permanent resident population. And that's before you get into temporary visas, asylum seekers, illegal immigrants, and foreign investors buying up housing as a store of wealth and letting it sit vacant, and we haven't even gotten into the demand from the rising generation of young Canadians looking to enter the housing market. 0: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-canadian-housing-starts-hit-record-in-2021-rising-21-per-cent/ https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-canadian-ho... 1: https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/news/2021/12/canada-welcomes-the-most-immigrants-in-a-single-year-in-its-history.html https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/ne...
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by moltke 5y ago

HideousKojima 5y ago

Specifically in regards to 2: Canada constructed 244,025 new homes in 2021[0] (this includes new condos and apartments). By comparison, Canada allowed 401,000 new permanent residents through immigration in 2021[1]. Now obviously some of those immigrants are going to be families that only need one home, but basically almost all of the new housing supply being created in Canada is so small that it could be bought up by the new permanent resident population. And that's before you get into temporary visas, asylum seekers, illegal immigrants, and foreign investors buying up housing as a store of wealth and letting it sit vacant, and we haven't even gotten into the demand from the rising generation of young Canadians looking to enter the housing market. 0: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-canadian-housing-starts-hit-record-in-2021-rising-21-per-cent/ https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-canadian-ho... 1: https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/news/2021/12/canada-welcomes-the-most-immigrants-in-a-single-year-in-its-history.html https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/ne...

bannedbybros 5y ago

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