Oh no, it’s not a monopoly. It’s an oligopoly. It’s like exactly the same except it’s completely legal.

Way ahead of you I’ve went there once in two years, can’t stand the place.

The reasons I listed I believe are a big reason that it is so expensive. You can’t find a solution without first correctly identifying the problem.

I’m a bit of a loop here, I tried to look them up and I mostly got some corporate BS about them rebranding. When you have time are you able to enlighten me?

That was really strange for me because ranked choice voting would almost guarantee the NDP a lot more votes and power than it currently has.

I think our housing markets biggest problem is twofold outdated zoning laws that only allow for single-family homes to be built and carcentric infrastructure that requires huge roads and parking spaces that require enormous amounts of public funds to maintain.

It’s definitely true that we’re lagging behind other G7 nations and I don’t think our leadership is blameless just definitely not the only blame.

I’m skeptical we’d be in a better spot under different leadership but with climate change, war and late stage capitalism in full swing I won’t hold my breath.

Sorry for the depressing comment!

I don’t think it’s fair to lay current economic landscape squarely at Trudeau’s feet.

Everywhere is poorer, corporations have been taking an unfair share for a long time and it is only ramped up in recent years. The United States is in a similar spot

Breaking news oil company that lies at every opportunity wasn’t held accountable and choose to lie for bottom line.

I just had to read through the crtc governance on telecommunications providers do you mind pointing out which subsections in particular are protectionist?

I mean that’s the problem with corporations too except when they’re publicly traded you also have to contend with fiduciary obligation making sure they always design for the minimum viable product.

Look no further than our Telecom industry to see how that works out.

It really doesn’t seem like an available labor shortage.

From my observations in Newfoundland it’s a combination of the most profitable product being huge single family homes and outdated (and car-centric) zoning policy that makes it difficult to construct anything else even if it was profitable.

Our issue is there’s no incentive to construct affordable housing and because of years of lobbying by the automotive industry they have to be extremely low density to accommodate the large front lawns, driveways and streetside parking required for car centric living. All of this adds additional cost.

I think step one would be to fix our zoning policy and step two would be to incentivize construction of low margin high density housing. This isn’t to say that single family homes should go away just the they shouldn’t be the only option.

I agree with the sentiment that wages need to be rise to provide a better quality of life.

I do have some questions however, if we did not have a larger working class than retired how could we sustainably fund their retirement?

It’s a well-known fact that our population demographics are only getting older. He only way I could see this being sustainable is if you restructured our economic system.

I agree, I wish we would target our housing crisis at the root, our outdated zoning laws. The laws only allow low density single family housing.

The ensures car dependency and adds additional cost.

It’s insane to me that anyone in Canada would hold this opinion given that our economy is on the verge of ruin due to the lack of available labour and the massive amount of retirees we have. Where do they think this money will come from?

I’m a systems administrator but I’m always looking for ways to expand my skill set, thanks for pointing me towards these awesome courses.

Fuck every gig-economy tech bro cash grab. Uber, airbnb, doordash, every single fucking one has been a blight in its respective market devoid of worker protections.

but someone said something that aligns with less than 100% of my beliefs

Yeah I really hope that we gain traction for this within our lifetimes because I think it will be the first step in helping our democracy reflect the will of the people

it’s a harsh reality that climate change will put increased strain on aging infrastructure, one of the many challenges we’re going to have to overcome.

Your premise is flawed the only reason it falls under the principles of inelastic demand is because of the way our country is structured for cars, if you use the tax to make systemic changes, making public transit and walking/biking possible this is no longer true.

I’m not saying it’s an easy transition but it is a necessary one and Norway and Denmark proves it’s possible

Unfortunately much like America we have a system that punishes split votes with this is mind the question becomes less who do you want and more who do you really not want?

Regardless this is great news and good on the NDP

A seedbox might work for your needs. However they come with a monthly cost.

I can’t speak to BC as I’m from NL and have only spent time in here, Ontario and Quebec.

Much of the problem here is that new developments are all low density, we have high density but it’s business facing or was full since it was built, anything built from the 90s onward was low density.

Agreed, I love walking through old Montreal and Quebec City. Old cities (mostly The ones that predate the popularization of the car) feel so much more alive than other cities mostly due to their people first design and interesting architecture

We need new zoning policies.

The only civilian housing allowed to be built in most areas is single family, low density housing which manufactures scarcity.

There’s also the requirement for driveways and huge front lawns that ensure car dependency further raising the effective cost of living.

We don’t need skyscrapers but we do need something more dense than the traditional single family homes as the cost to maintain our cities and to live as individuals balloon to unforeseen levels.

We’ve taken a lot from Americans and lessons about how to run a city should never be one of them.

I’m struggling to find relevence in the non-sequitor here but obviously the current government favors it more than the conservatives.

That is not the issue at hand.

Why stop there? Why don’t we just get rid of everyone Canadian residents included if you’re so eager to find a non-solution.

Withiout a skilled younger generation to support our aging population our economy will collapse, we need more people and we need better planned housing.

Careful, you almost went mask off there

Agreed. Immigration is a must

Our problems are entirely policy and zoning based. Having swoths of low density single-family homes with poor access to public transit is the problem.

Sure having less people does make it less of a problem but it’s never going to fix it and it’s an insane take to suggest otherwise

None of this was a personal attack and to take it as such might mean you need to reevaluate your feelings on the matter.

Pointing back to my original argument I stated that it was often a inflation resistant investment I’m not speaking of single family homes renting out their bottom half or whatever the case may be.

I’m speaking of those you buy up commercial property with no intent to ever do anything with it because the value of the land will vastly outpace the value of inflation.

I’m also speaking about landlords that own hundreds of properties. While someone in your position is becoming increasingly common it is not the majority in housing scarce areas. There are still a few individuals that own large swaths of land.

There are a lot of policy decisions that got us here. But more mixed zoning, more housing, less landlords has been proven time and time again to fix it and while I’m not sold entirely on the Singapore idea I will say that everyone in my generation is fucking sick and tired of people making excuses about what can’t work while people are on the street dying

At this point I think I’m with Singapore on land and housing being a publicly controlled good

As it stands now our housing market is just an inflation resistant bank for the wealthy

They just named the price they’re willing to rent it at its entirely secondary to their goals and so it doesn’t serve the housing market