An affordable housing crisis that is hurting the Canadian government's popularity will take years to resolve, even if construction hits an 80-year high, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said on Saturday.
An affordable housing crisis that is hurting the Canadian government’s popularity will take years to resolve, even if construction hits an 80-year high, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said on Saturday.
I work in construction and pretty much all I get to work on is huge luxury homes for people who own multiple homes. These projects take up huge amounts of construction labour resources. We are very busy but what we are building is not going to increase housing stock for working Canadians.
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !canada@lemmy.ca
I work in construction and pretty much all I get to work on is huge luxury homes for people who own multiple homes. These projects take up huge amounts of construction labour resources. We are very busy but what we are building is not going to increase housing stock for working Canadians.