My point is that we’re charging much more fees on new housing than every other city. And I don’t mean 10-20% more but 3-5x more. We have higher costs to build housing and housing costs more, does anyone see the correlation here?
We also have the highest gas prices and the highest taxes on them. I feel our politicians are addicted to the double whammy where they increase fees rather than decrease them on overpriced goods.
If you truly believe that the prices for new housing would be the same regardless of the fees then why isn’t our government stipulating that fees will be less if homes sell for less? Or are only sold to people living in Vancouver who have to hold it for 5-10 years. These fees aren’t going back to us there going to the social programs and union labour aka buying votes.
The fees also make it very difficult to build non luxury condos because in the end they require the extra profit luxury brings to afford the fees.
Last edited by misher; Oct 2, 2018 at 7:32 AM.
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