Poilievre’s Housing Hell video offers a lousy, analysis of our housing crisis

[cropgrower]

No doubt traveled the same as all the other climate hypocrites , thankfully lots are wakeing up to the do as i say not what i do puppets/parrots

[AlbertaFarmer5]

The NFU had everyone out for a rally on parliament hill on Nov 22.
Had national media coverage and features on government websites it was such a well publicized event.
Looks like they must have had some sort of voluntary crowd control as I only counted less that 20 people for the big photo opp.

Looked like some might be street people hoping for free meals like when the Freedom Convoy was there but hard to tell who was who.

What is the difference between a rally and an occupation?
How many NFU members at this rally had their bank accounts frozen and are facing charges?

[AlbertaFarmer5]

I didn't actually read Chuck's cut and paste. I'm waiting for the Cliff's notes version.
But I did read the first line:
It’s not like the housing market ever worked for low-income renters, and it won’t until we incentivize the building of units that they can afford
This issue has always struck me as odd. Regulations have made construction of even the most basic structure unnecessarily expensive to meet energy efficiency, safety, fire codes, etc. Some probably have merit, some are typical bureaucracy in action.

But, the net result is we have working homeless people literally living in their cars because they can't afford homes. It seems to me that building a modest sized house that meets the fire, safety and energy efficiency standards of say 50 years ago, would still be far safer, more energy efficient and less of a fire risk than having family sleeping in an idling car through long Canadian winters.

[Taiga]

Can’t wait for this corrupt bunch to be turfed

[cropgrower]

Freeloaders vote for the criminals , thats what we are up against

[chuckChuck]

More silly crap from Crop?

So by you're own definition Crop, you are a freeloader! LOL

As a farmer you are getting subsidies and handouts from taxpayers.

As a retiree and senior you will be receiving healthcare, financial support and other social programs paid for by taxpayers.

A "hypocrite freeloader" by your own definition!

[chuckChuck]

Population growth is the housing issue politicians can’t keep ducking

[url]https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-housing-population-growth/[/url]

Rapid population growth, driven primarily by an unprecedented boom in temporary residents – mostly temporary workers and foreign students – has turbocharged demand for Canada’s slow-growing stock of apartments and houses.

That’s not the fault of those foreign workers and students. It’s the fault of governments whose planning and policies have failed miserably.

Those are the failures of Ontario Premier Doug Ford ([url]https://www.theglobeandmail.com/topics/doug-ford/)’s[/url] government, which has allowed a foreign student boom to grow, without adequate plans for housing. And Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ([url]https://www.theglobeandmail.com/topics/justin-trudeau/[/url]), whose government didn’t monitor or limit that, and also expanded temporary-worker programs ([url]https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-new-temporary-foreign-worker-pilot-program-to-speed-up-approvals-for/[/url]), all without adequate plans for housing.

And still politicians say little about it.

When Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre puts out a 15-minute video called Housing Hell which purports to explain the causes of Canada’s housing crises, we should expect that it won’t avoid a key factor. But it did.

One reason federal politicians have been reluctant to talk about population growth is that they do not want to appear to be anti-immigrant. That’s a good reflex, even if it is partly political calculation.

Immigrants are not the problem – governments are. They failed to plan. It is not really higher targets for permanent immigrants that are driving the growth, either, but an essentially unplanned expansion of temporary residents, who now number 2.2 million. Blame governments.

So it’s distressing to see an opposition politician pledging to fix the problem – Mr. Poilievre – miss this key point.

The Conservative Leader’s video included valid points about the slow growth of Canada’s housing ([url]https://www.theglobeandmail.com/topics/housing/[/url]) stock. Accelerating building is the real medium- and long-term solution. However, that process will take years.

But Mr. Poilievre’s claim that houses are a lot more expensive in Canada than in the U.S. because of Ottawa’s inflationary deficits doesn’t really add up: The U.S. has run far higher deficits, noted economist Mike Moffatt, a Western University professor and senior director of policy at the Smart Prosperity Institute

Mr. Poilievre makes an argument for why deficits and monetary policy caused inflation but that is largely part of another debate. Canada’s housing-price spike isn’t just general inflation ([url]https://www.theglobeandmail.com/topics/inflation/[/url]).

Inflation lifted prices about 29 per cent of the last 10 years, according to Statistics Canada, but Prof. Moffatt noted that in Ontario, home prices went up by 120 per cent – in Tillsonburg, 228 per cent. That’s not ordinary inflation. Something else is happening with supply and demand.

Mr. Poilievre’s video offered a bizarre version of housing supply and demand, arguing Canada has lots of land (so lots of supply) and a small population (so not much demand.) But people live in homes, with walls, and connected to infrastructure. And it is growth in population that drives demand: If Canada had a population of 100 million that shrank by five million in a year, home prices would plummet.

[Guest]

So one prime minister spending more than all the other prime ministers put together has nothing to do with it ??
you need a lesson in economics

[TOM4CWB]

CC… you missed the point of the cost of housing.
Vancouver/ Toronto land administration costs Are 9 to 11 times Edmonton Winnipeg Maritime residential land administrative over head cost of 3 times the cost of the residential facility.

increased taxing of vastly over inflation boosted land regulatory and base land costs… plus carbon taxes in cold Canadian climates … are making residential housing unaffordable for over 50% of Canadians… affluent Canadians won’t go without a roof over their families….
This system is rigged to reward administrative overreach and over taxation of those who can least afford the cost. Very stupid and sad.
Not the actual true construction cost of the actual residential unit.

Governments create inefficient top heavy costs… not better service or healthy people.

Blessings and Prayers

BTW…

EV are no different.

Cheers as we freeze in the cold for lack of energy…while that energy is locked in the ground…by stupidity.

[chuckChuck]

"But Mr. Poilievre’s claim that houses are a lot more expensive in Canada than in the U.S. because of Ottawa’s inflationary deficits doesn’t really add up: The U.S. has run far higher deficits, noted economist Mike Moffatt, a Western University professor and senior director of policy at the Smart Prosperity Institute

Mr. Poilievre makes an argument for why deficits and monetary policy caused inflation but that is largely part of another debate. Canada’s housing-price spike isn’t just general inflation ([url]https://www.theglobeandmail.com/topics/inflation/[/url]).

Inflation lifted prices about 29 per cent of the last 10 years, according to Statistics Canada, but Prof. Moffatt noted that in Ontario, home prices went up by 120 per cent – in Tillsonburg, 228 per cent. That’s not ordinary inflation. Something else is happening with supply and demand."

[Guest]

And yet most people and nearly ALL young Canadians can really identify with Pierre’s video
you and this out of touch writer are a part of the very few that think it’s ok to shovel taxpayer money into a black hole
at least one reporter (Vassy) is asking these criminals in power some hard questions
she caused one to start convulsing on national TV

[chuckChuck]

Do you really think once Crypto becomes Prime Minister that the housing supply will increase and prices and rents will come down? If so, you must also still believe in Santa Claus!

Pierre gives us the equivalent of another " crypto currency will help us fight inflation" with his dumbass idea that lots of land solves the housing problem.

"Mr. Poilievre’s video offered a bizarre version of housing supply and demand, arguing Canada has lots of land (so lots of supply) and a small population (so not much demand.) But people live in homes, with walls, and connected to infrastructure. And it is growth in population that drives demand: If Canada had a population of 100 million that shrank by five million in a year, home prices would plummet.

[Guest]

Yes , absolutely , if , and that’s a big if , he can get rid of the gate keepers

[chuckChuck]

The gate keepers? HUH? Your just repeating his talking points.

The housing file is complex and it will take multiple ways to make sure every person whether low income or high income has affordable housing.

Governments have to invest in and use incentives for affordable housing for low income people who don't have a down payment or an income to afford a house in our large cities.

[rastafarian]

Well seeing how PP has Never had a job other than a paid politician, collecting a FULL Pension since he was 31 years old and living in taxpayer subsidized housing . then RENTING to other Con Mps , this DOES Not sound like the guy to be giving advice on housing or to be Playing the role of the Common man