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> You know governments work on multiple things simultaneously? If only someone told them that 8 years ago, maybe they could have moved the needle by now ;) woo

• bryanlarsen 3y ago
  For the last 40 or so years Canadian governments have been trying to have their cake and eat it too. Home prices going up was a good thing, because home owners were far more reliable voters then renters. So we saw lots of programs like the RRSP first time home buyer program, which made it easier for new buyers to buy and by increasing demand, made prices go up. Remember that people thought the 2008 crash in the States was caused by too many houses. Voters and governments concentrate on preventing the last crisis from happening again. The next crisis is a lot harder to focus on until it actually happens.
  • brailsafe 3y ago
    > home owners were far more reliable voters then renters As far as I can tell, while this may be the assumption that politicians have been using, it doesn't seem necessarily accurate beyond a correlation with age and wealth. It may or may not be, but I'm not aware of public data that reliably makes such a direct association in Canada, and I wonder if the numbers would look similar to likelihood of having developed heart disease. But I agree with the rest of the sentiment