Quote:
Originally Posted by giallo
I'm still kinda shocked that this isn't the biggest deal in Canada right now. Like, I would have imagined an across-the-table, bipartisan plan with every level of government involved to fix this ASAP.
Instead, we get a federal government saying that it's technically "not their responsibility", and municipalities still blocking 11 unit low rise projects from being built in their neighbourhoods.
As far as I'm concerned, the housing crisis has become the biggest issue Canada has faced in my lifetime next to the 1995 referendum vote, and things just keep getting worse and worse.
|
Before 2022, there was little acknowledgement outside of forums like this one or reddit that housing was becoming unaffordable. The Liberals ran a campaign ad in 2021 about how successful they were at keeping housing affordable, and no one batted an eye. The family shown in the video was living in a single family home that would have cost millions of dollars at the time. Even on this forum there were posters arguing the same. Some of them still do, but thankfully they're becoming increasingly rare.
Now there's wide consensus that there is a problem, but hardly anyone is willing to acknowledge that what we're doing is wholly insufficient to address it. We need to triple housing completions each year to keep up pace with demand, but no one has come out with a plan to tell us how we're going to be doing this or if not how far off the mark we're going to be. As long as we keep applauding politicians each time they make announce (and re-announce) some form of tinkering, there isn't going to be any serious progress on this front. Moves like removing the GST on rental housing and the Housing Accelerator are good in a vacuum, but amount to little in the big picture.
Threaded Mode