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Freeland touts home savings account, notes limits to addressing housing crisis (www.castanet.net)
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Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland says the uptake of a new savings account for first-time homebuyers is exceeding expectation, though she acknowledged the limits of what it can do to address affordability.

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[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corp. has forecast that the country needs 3.5 million more homes by 2030 than the country is currently on track to build.

With the speed of homebuilding not matching population growth, economists at both National Bank and TD Bank warned last week that the high levels of newcomers to Canada threaten to make the housing affordability crisis worse.

The federal government has a bunch of tools to lower demand or increase supply. And their response is to create a TFSA?

[–] knapsackinjury@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's so stupid. The problem with the housing market isn't that I don't have a proper account to keep a $200k down payment that is needed.

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

The TFSA has a limit of $40k and you can "only" save $8k/year. So you wouldn't be able to get an actual down payment in there anyway.

But yeah, point taken. The TFSA is an insufficient response to a real problem.

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