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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.

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Pierre Poilievre: Yes, Justin Trudeau deserves blame for sky-high housing costs (nationalpost.com)

submitted 2 years ago by jackalyst to c/canadahousing

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[–] heyheyitsbrent 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I made this to illustrate to a friend that housing prices have been running away from wages for at least the last 20 years. I included the price of avocados too, cause you know, toast and other frivolous spending is really to blame. (/s)

[–] jackalyst 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Thank you for this. I really dislike how Pierre tends to be very misleading with charts and stats.

The one chart I keep referring to is the one between the US and Canada. I'm sure we've seen it, or one like it. In my personal opinion, it's not selectively a "Trudeau" issue, but a series of policies and global circumstances that has led to where we are today, Federally, provincially, and among our local municipal governments. We can't move forward without actually looking at things as objectively as we can.

[–] heyheyitsbrent 1 points 2 years ago

That's interesting. I remember back after the '08 collapse in the States, we were pating ourselves on the back for how we were better off, while they were undergoing a massive correction. Meanwhile...