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The comment is complete hyperbole and isn't even correct. Real estate is bigger in the US than Canada. Every developed country is running into immigration and
by ashconnor 3y ago
The comment is complete hyperbole and isn't even correct. Real estate is bigger in the US than Canada.
Every developed country is running into immigration and housing issues. Canada isn't alone and isn't even the worst case.
- tharmas 3y agoYes, but there's Canada's climate. If you try to live in a tent outdoors in Canada you will likely die.
- seanmcdirmid 3y agoYou can do it Vancouver. Seattle and Vancouver’s homelessness problem are remarkably similar, only differing in how Canada handles it better than the Americans do.
- tharmas 3y agoAnd that's essentially the only place you can. So all the homeless make a trek to Vancouver?
- xcrunner529 3y agoIsn’t allowing everyone and essentially recruiting immigrants a major cause of the housing crisis and expenses in Toronto?
- ashconnor 3y agoSure and immigration should be stemmed, short-term, until housing reforms can be implemented. They've already announced measures to reduce student visas which were uncapped previously. https://www.ft.com/content/085cda38-9060-4da1-8532-1a3af9cd7e58 https://www.ft.com/content/085cda38-9060-4da1-8532-1a3af9cd7... Still. This isn't going to solve the issue. They need to build far more than they currently are doing. They need to strip local government of its veto over housing. They need to definancialize real estate.
- xcrunner529 3y agoYep. It’s such a cancer in the US too. So many NIMBY’s. Toronto when I went was so odd like a mix of dense and then houses.