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[–] CorvusNyx@beehaw.org 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You know what would go a long way? Make housing a shitty income source. Bring about heavy taxes on any additional livable property beyond the one you live in yourself. Ban all politicians from landlording - it’s a conflict of interest holding us all back. Ban corporations and foreign organizations from owning housing. You’d see a fire sale. Prices would plummet, and people who need housing would have a greater chance at it. Finally, get a fucking UBI going, and grow universal healthcare to include eye and dental care.

Enough is goddamn enough. We know who the problem is and it isn’t immigrants, it’s well-off folks taking and hoarding more than they need using their much larger disposable income and connections to take advantage of the rest of us.

There are solutions to making Canadian’s lives better, and they’ll take work and time to make happen, but this continuous pissing in the wind isn’t getting us anywhere. We can do this civilly with hard work, or we can get to a breaking point and do things like 1789 France. One way another, the bullshit has got to go.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There's just not enough houses, though. Measurably. Banning landlords would be bad news for anyone who can't afford a mortgage downpayment.

[–] BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Great news then. Banning landlords of non purpose built units, would drop prices!

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Like former office space or whatever? That's not what OP said, but encouraging repurposing is an idea worth talking about.

[–] BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

No, as in single family homes. If the building was expressly built with density in mind (think triplex and above) then it's fine IMO. This reduces the land scarcity side of the equation, as well as incentivizes density.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, we could do a Castro and just nationalise all rentals, in theory. Growing a government department that plays the role of every landlord at once would be a big project, though, and of course it's not politically viable at the moment. And we'd still have a housing shortage.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Not public housing, social housing. We could seed self-owning housing coops.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

Same problem as with getting a mortgage, then. A lot of people don't have the money to start or buy into such a thing.