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  • If our food supplies weren't keeping up with population so Loblaws made more money would you be bootlicking Loblaws or calling for the government to invest in food production?

    I don't find municipals blameless, its just their individual incentives, and some have rezoned like BC. But from a macro level it is clearly mass immigration leading to the rapid rise in prices, and thats the federal government who signs that.

  • Did we conclude that, I thought its still heavily debated.

    Some argue in the 50s and 60s the US was spending Europe's gold to build highways and infrastructure, gifting Americans the wealth with a continuation of the new deal, they then defaulted in 1971 as inflation eroded foreign debt owed.

    Some feel some form of debt accrual is how we derive such a consumption focused standard of living, which is misallocated capital that ends in someone holding the bag when it can't realistically be paid back, or when population doesn't grow fast enough like in Japan or most of the developed countries.

  • Corporate ownership would still make renting cheaper given supply and demand. Rents doubled under Trudeau, and those houses aren't sitting empty.

    Public housing isn't going to work when everything is zoned for single family homes, there's no shortage of capital to build, its land values that are expensive. They could force municipals to rezone those areas which would help, however that just sidesteps the real issue, which is sprawled zoning coupled with mass immigration.

  • Eby is doing good work finally at least. Alberta too, many cities and provinces are helping by blanket rezoning, as the Liberals seemingly go in reverse by juicing demand via mortgage bond purchase and extending amortizations to banks.

  • Sure, its supply and demand.

    Obviously its a combination of poor zoning, mass immigration, extending amortizations, the federal government buying half of all mortgage bonds, slow permitting, skyrocketing development fees.

    The federal government controls 3 of those. The others aren't as big an issue like zoning density or aren't really sustainable like development fees given the laffer curve without the mass immigration.