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@BlameThePeacock

If 65% of rental properties are owned by the people living in them and 24% are owned by fucking corporations, that leaves 11% left for everyone else ... including low income people who need to live somewhere.

I'm one of them. Had to move out of my apartment and now I live in a bedroom. At 62 I can't work much anymore because of workplace injuries, have had 4 surgeries to fix what happened, and get $1200 per month to live on. Keep telling me how it can't be fixed.

@BlameThePeacock

24% of Alberta's rentals are owned by real estate investment trusts, indicating a move to the financialization of housing as an investment strategy. And it is causing problems.

Housing is a fundamental need, the same as food and water are. Gov'ts have allowed the privatization of these things to the detriment of human survival and it MUST stop ... or only the rich will be alive.

Saying that 35% of housing is rental hides the fact of ownership.

@Tavarin

And back to square one.

Goodbye.

@cyberpunk007

I'd like to know why neither Trudeau or PP haven't said they'd restrict how many housing units a single entity can own ... because that's a huge part of this issue.

@Tavarin

Yes the gov't can, if they implement rules limiting how many units/blocks any single entity can own.

There are ways to do this.

@Tavarin

I'm speaking of apartment blocks that are rented, not condo units that are purchased.

@Tavarin

Winnipeg, like Montreal, etc, has a ton of older apartment blocks (or 3 story walk-ups in Montreal) that need no rezoning or increased infrastructure. Purchasing a few of those in strategic areas would help to bring down rents.

There are a ton of options available, and since municipal/provincial gov'ts aren't doing anything the feds need to step up to the plate.

@Tavarin @Mongostein

The feds can legally purchase apartment blocks in any city and operate them as low income housing.

They can do something about it ... the feds just don't want to become landlords because it's complicated.

Real leadership would recognize that leaving it up to provincial/municipal money-hungry airheads is just passing the buck.

@Stochastic @cyberpunk007

Because the cost of replacing the batteries is more than the car is worth.

https://www.thedrive.com/guides-and-gear/these-replacement-battery-costs-for-these-six-normal-evs-is-staggeringly-high

@Stochastic @danielquinn

EVs are an environmental disaster because:

one, even a minor accident makes the vehicle unrepairable, because the battery packs can't be tested to verify if they've been damaged

and

two, battery packs are worth up to 50% of an EVs' price, so replacing them is cost-prohibitive, so EVs are written off after 8-10 yrs (because the batteries are old tech at that point and can cost upwards of $15k to replace).

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/scratched-ev-battery-your-insurer-may-have-junk-whole-car-2023-03-20/

https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/hybrids-evs/what-happens-to-the-old-batteries-in-electric-cars-a1091429417/

@bluGill @TheTango @PeruvianSkies @trias10

The sanatoriums were horrendous and closed by both Canadian and American gov'ts in the late 60's - early 70's for good reason. The problem was the gov'ts didn't put programs in place to help those people live outside the walls ... essentially the same thing they do with prisoners now.

Guaranteed incomes, stable housing and support networks would clear up many of the "issues", but too many whine about their tax dollars being spent on people in need.

@visak @dunningcougar

You're right.

And that sucks, because now the invisible line has been crossed not one of the parties will create laws against it happening again.

'Murica - land of the fraud, home of the deceived

@tdgoodman

You're right. But food and shelter is a good place to start lest we overwhelm the pearl clutchers with too many requests all at once.

@trias10

That's fair. So let's fix it worldwide then, starting with North America.

@theodewere @182461b17174 @number8 @solidsnake2085 @bufordt @EzekielJK

Goodbye.

@trias10 @PeruvianSkies

The real issue is that too many Americans have bought into the bootstrap theory and couldn't give a shit about their neighbours who don't have a place to live or food to eat.

Take care of those 2 things first and there won't be an issue of people hanging out where it's warm/cool and food is being supplied.

@Tired8281 @grte

The difference here being that a CBC instance wouldn't have to follow dumb rules ... they'd make up their own so the racists, multi-phobics, etc wouldn't have much of a platform.

@JustAManOnAToilet @usualsuspect191

I stopped 30+ years ago after microwaving chili and it melted the side of the plastic container.

Fyi there's been stories about this for years (usually having to do with chemical contamination from the plastic) but the FDA never seemed to look into it.

Imo that's because Big Oil didn't want them to, because it would not only remove a HUGE source of their revenue but would also open them up to massive lawsuits.

@agentflounder @wahming

Exactly. Assumptions rarely lead to facts.

@UmbrellAssassin @wanderingmagus

Nope. But do go on about things you know little about.