These companies will continue to milk every last cent from the population. They will take living expenses beyond your income. You will go into debt to pay for your housing. Or you can force your representatives to pass legislation ending this abuse and greed.
this post was submitted on 05 Nov 2023
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A significant portion of our representives are landlords and have a conflict of interest in improving the situation.
Yes, by percentage of caucus CPC (46%), LPC (39%), BQ, and NDP(16%) according to disclosures.
Jayzuz. 😡
Indeed, and landlords in Parliament are not a problem per se. Having them at such a disproportionate rate versus the general population absolutely is.
Politicians have no interest in fixing this because politicians are landlords. Yes, even the NDP. It will never be fixed within our current political system. We can either continue around and around in our current, useless, reformist approach… or we can de-commodify and then nationalize housing.
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I once ran the numbers, and it turned out that even if all my other bills are quadrupled, if my rent alone is halved in return, I'd come out vastly on top. How come one bill come out to more than double of all my other bills combined?
I think that the government isn't moving aggressively on this file because if they did, there would be a massive correction and many landlords would go bankrupt. It would be political suicide.
I think what they are hoping for is that the correction will happen organically and gradually so that they are not blamed for the fallout and so that the impact is diminished. The problem is, I don't think that people can hold out and regardless, there will be some pain for all groups. The damage is already done, and fixing this will be painful.
Millenials' prospects are shattered and social development has been stunted because these milestones are unattainable. Even current homeowners who are seeing real estate as an investment vehicle are supporting an alarming trend where right to own is becoming a thing of the past. They will pass on their assets to their kids or sell them off, which are increasingly going to investors using them as short-term rentals. Everything is just going to be perpetual payments.
And on the other end of things, where labour is becoming increasingly devalued either due to unsustainable immigration (see disconnect between federal and provincial policies) or because of automation (the gain in new careers << loss of old careers), future generations are worse off (so why would you have kids?).
And this situation is not going to be fixed until, like you alluded, there is a demographic shift. But that's like 10-20 years, when there's going to be a derth of immigrants (they are leaving in record numbers because the illusion of opportunity is increasingly shattered, there was an article posted on here a while back iirc) and boomers are retiring with little-no savings so they sell to increase supply. Actually I'm not even sure that will fix it, because then the investors just swoop in and buy it for pennies on the dollar like in '08, unless we have legislation to prevent it by then.
If the government could step in and just build housing instead of adopting neoliberal bullshit, that would be great thanks.