Mastodawn

Reddit is roasting Poilievre, but I agree with Poilievre, here: we need to get an ethics committee to investigate this.

Carney and Eby keep saying that their housing plan that they announced on June 18th isn't a bailout, but every word that comes out of their mouth continues to make it sound like a bailout.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/poilievre-calls-for-an-urgent-meeting-of-ethics-committee-to-investigate-bc-condo-bailout/

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Poilievre calls for an ‘urgent meeting’ of ethics committee to investigate B.C. ‘condo bailout’

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling for an “urgent meeting” of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics to investigate what he calls the “condo bailout” announced by the government earlier this month.

CTVNews

yeehaw 5d ago

Housing crisis: London teen builds $20K modular home

https://lemmy.ca/post/66871497

Housing crisis: London teen builds $20K modular home - Lemmy.ca

Lemmy

Hublai (charismatic megafauna)Jun 8

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cashinmortgages May 25

Did you know… Canada’s population is declining year-over-year for the first time on record?

But it’s not happening everywhere.

Ontario and BC are seeing declines, while the Prairies continue to grow and support stronger housing demand.

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Sal Rahman May 20

RE: https://techhub.social/@manlycoffee/116607639831774824

Canada is utterly incompetent with regards to housing.

What I'd opt for:

- ban improvements taxes; taxes should only be levied against the land not the improvements on them

- ban single-family zonings (sure, single family is allowed, just that municipalities are not allowed to ban higher occupancy)

- ban municipalities and provinces from levying annual rent control (maybe rent increase regulations to make it tolerable for tenants, but that's it)

- reduce the time for landlords to evict delinquent tenants

- Canada must compete with landlords rather than regulating against them; instead of regulating, lead by example! Increase supply (the government can be as selfish as it wants; charge as much rent as it wants, but it needs to remain operationally viable to cover taxes and other costs to unoccupied unit, so in competing with landlords, it may need to drop the rent, but NOT out of charity but out of operational necessity)

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cashinmortgages Mar 30

Inflation is cooling

Core inflation dropped to 𝟐.𝟓% 𝐢𝐧 𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲, reducing the chance of more rate hikes this year.

Borrowers can now 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐠𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬, 𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐨𝐫 𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐬.

Cashin Mortgages helps you make smart moves in today’s market.

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Pepperberry Mar 28

Encampments aren’t an anomaly; they’re a policy outcome. When housing is treated as an asset first, shelter second, we get the cities we designed. The agenda for change is clearer than the politics that block it.

Canada’s urban promise is fraying by design — housing, zoning, and a politics that rewards scarcity.

Canada’s cities once functioned as social elevators. Today, they’re stalled between floors—by policy, by design, and by choice.

https://curmudgeonlycanadian.substack.com/p/the-canadian-urban-condition

#CanadaHousing #Urbanism

Pepperberry Mar 28

Canada’s cities didn’t drift into crisis. We legislated scarcity, shifted costs to municipalities, and called it inevitable. This essay maps the choices — and the reforms that could make the urban promise real again: supply, non‑market housing, zoning reform, and transit that actually moves people.

A critical essay on Canada’s urban crisis:

https://curmudgeonlycanadian.substack.com/p/the-canadian-urban-condition

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