Die Mehrheit der neuen Kanadier hat das Gefühl, dass sie zu Unrecht für die Immobilienkrise verantwortlich gemacht werden: OMNI-Umfrage
Majority of new Canadians feel they are being unfairly blamed for housing crisis: OMNI poll
Die Mehrheit der neuen Kanadier hat das Gefühl, dass sie zu Unrecht für die Immobilienkrise verantwortlich gemacht werden: OMNI-Umfrage
Majority of new Canadians feel they are being unfairly blamed for housing crisis: OMNI poll
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Of course. It is the regressive development policies and the NIMBY having huge influence. As the wealthy boomer generation retires, the norm for retiring suddenly shifts away from downsizing to reverse mortgaging as needed. The incoming wave of immigration are needed as an infrastructure boom is likely to require workers soon.
Anyway, the anti immigration sentiment is part of a global trend that led to new governments this year in Taiwan, South Korea, the Netherlands, India, the European Union, United Kingdom, France, and Austria. The liberal government is damned whatever they do.
Because they are.
In order to blame immigrants for our housing problems, I would have to ignore stubborn city councils, incompetent provincial governments, unscrupulous developers, and unsophisticated investors who **very obviously** deserve to be blamed before any immigrants.
If I made enough dinner for 5 people, and my dumbass son decides to invite the entire highschool football team to eat it, I’m blaming my son, not the players.
Yeah this is a policy issues, from start to finish. If accessible, affordable housing were truly our priorities over the past decades, we’d have that. Blaming individuals or a community is always the easiest things to do (it’s how our brains work to a large extent, IMO) but it’s not accurate or helpful.
In fact I think the rich are just laughing at all the average people fighting each other. Same thing here in NS, people are mad at Ontarians for coming and driving up housing prices, as if it’s all about those selfish Ontarians coming and taking advantage of us. It’s a policy issue. The rich people from any province are benefiting and the average from any province are fighting and blaming each other. This is how we’ve designed out economy and our society.
Jesus Christ this level of math isn’t that hard.
If the people out number the homes and you’re still inviting in millions…. Yeah that oddly works out to more people competing for the same housing space.
I think the Liberals should seriously consider lowering the 70% threshold for pre-builds being sold before developers can break ground. Lower it, or even put a temporary freeze. It addresses some of the issues [raised in this video](https://youtu.be/0Ydd6R9vv0c?si=O7oark9zHvJdONlw). And the Liberals should lower it before they leave office.
It’s one of the biggest red tape requirements that prevents housing from being built faster, as well as causes costs to increase due to inflation. Yes, developers need to stop building shoebox condos that no one asked for, but at the same time, it’s a Harper era policy that no longer helps the current housing crisis we are living in.
It was meant to help prevent Canada’s housing economy crashing like it did in the US in 2008. But we are in a housing crisis, and we need to build faster.
lol – it’s not the immigrants who drove this fucking mess! Lmao. It’s us. Look around you. Your neighbours, your friends. That DINK power couple who moved from Toronto to a cottage on the lake to work remotely. The legion of new Mom and Pop ‘investors’ who all bought properties. It’s existing Canadians who drove this more than anyone. The great rush to monetize the largest tax free ‘investment’ in Canada – your principal residence. Which you can declare each year. What a joke.
Covid, bullshit free money, remote work and a healthy dose of FOMO frenzy did this.
For many new Canadians – they are screwed. Likely packed 15+ in a house and queuing up in long lines for crappy jobs.
Blaming policy that allows far too many people to come here than our capacity permits is very different from blaming individuals themselves.
I get why people want to move to Canada. I don’t get why our government seems to think that housing capacity is irrelevant but “social capacity” is the more important consideration.
Anybody blaming immigrants is wrong.
The blame falls squarely on the federal government and the Canadians who continue to support the policies emanating from the PMO.
I encourage everybody to visit D’Arcy McGee’s near Parliament Hill in Ottawa when they get a chance. The 20, 30 and 40 year old whities you’ll find there, tipping back a few pints and awkwardly flirting with each other, with vague intellectual pretensions, are the bane of this country’s existence. They’re the unelected side of the political class and they’re the problem. Them, right there.