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Experts say Ottawa is playing more of a role in housing, which is mostly a provincial and territorial responsibility, but federal involvement hasn't brought much relief amid rising home prices.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (10 children)

By building medium density, transit oriented, neighborhoods; the feds can get after housing, environmental, and cost of living issues at the same time. Get three birds stoned at one.

If provinces fight it, give the housing to another province.

[–] cyborganism 2 points 2 years ago (7 children)

But that's all municipal and to some degree, provincial.

What the feds need to do is curb immigration for a while until we figure this out and also create legislation for the realtor business/profession or just make it obsolete. Why the fuck do we need these dweebs when we can just simplify the process instead. There would be no more incentive from those bastards to blow up prices and give bad advice to people for a bigger commission.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Immigration isn't driving the housing crisis, though. Real estate speculation and short-term rentals are.

Massively tax short-term rentals and non-primary-resident housing and watch the problem go away

[–] PaganDude 1 points 2 years ago

It's not driving the crisis, but it's making it a lot worse.

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