-14
this post was submitted on 21 Jun 2023
-14 points (23.1% liked)
Canada Housing
254 readers
1 users here now
This is a community to discuss the housing crisis in Canada.
All so Canadians can find a decent home to live in.
Racism is still absolutely prohibited, but you are welcome to debate population growth, immigration rate, foreign home buyers, and the merits of single family homes or the green zone.
A merge of r/canadahousing and r/canadahousing2 for those coming from Reddit.
Bits of the sidebar and logo taken from those subs and will be going through a slight revision as things get settled.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Is he to blame for sky high housing costs in the US? The UK? France? Australia? Or is that just the fact that the global economy has gone squiffy because of the pandemic and profiteering by corporations?
We can do better than just parroting these ridiculous and insultingly childish right wing talking points. As long as we believe and spread this bullshit we're not going to be able to have a reasonable conversation about what to do to try to get our economy back under control despite what is going on in the rest of the world.
It's more complex than just saying it's only a Federal issue, or that Canada is alone in this, but I think it would be foolish to think they haven't played a role.
Lets take the right or left out of this and keep discussions above board, calling opinions "insultingly childish right wing talking points" doesn't do us any favours.
Explain to me how Trudeau is responsible for the rise in the cost of housing in LA, Paris, London, Buenos Aires, Adelaide, and Barcelona.
If you can't do that then blaming Trudeau for the Canadian manifestations of a global rise in housing prices is just reductively childish tribalistic nonsense. How would you explain that it wasn't Pierre polievre's fault if he was in power instead of Trudeau?
Cutting taxes and giving billions of dollars of gifts to the wealthy and cutting services for everyone else won't solve this problem.
What Canada needs is a Conservative leader who is an adult with real ideas instead of just "TrUdEaU bAd!"
If we can agree that policies can impact the economic and housing situation in situ of its local, which I think they do, then we can look at policies at all levels, (ie municipal, provincial, federal), in order to improve our Canadian situation. How much can be done is another conversation, but we control our local government more than the worlds.