Comments by "" (@shauncameron8390) on "Canada’s rental crisis: The search for an affordable home (Marketplace)" video.

  1. Just like the government is not interested in lowering property taxes or building restrictions.
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  2.  @clodovyasylvionna  Then tenants should buy their own house and stop expecting someone else to provide them housing.
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  3. <We've come to a point where cities are no longer seen as places where people live. > Cities were never really seen as places where people live to begin with, but work and do business. <Also, businesses in these cities are shuttering because a - people are just scraping by as is and can't afford to frequent them, b- people don't have time to actually step into a store because all they do is work and commute to work so everything is ordered online, and c - fewer people live by these businesses. > Also d - high taxes and government over-regulation. <One extreme is Ashgabat the capital of Turkmenistan. I have heard that no one lives there - everyone lives on the periphery of the city> There's also Pyongyang, North Korea. Only government officials and tourists are allowed to live there while ordinary citizens live on the outskirts.
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  4. <a lot of other judges would've probably send the guy to jail...> And rightfully so. Theft is theft. And compassion = enablement.
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  5. The government has done something. The high taxes, bureaucracy and punitive regulations made renting costly and pretty much not worth it.
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  6.  @KathrynSrce3719  New York and California are 2 of the most high-demand states in the US.
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  7.  @chrishardy8616  Or they hate Conservatives so much they would rather suffer under Liberal leadership.
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  8.  @Astrologyt2343  But foreign students, migrants and refugees are exempt from the ban.
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  9. LOL. If you're making 60K a year and struggling, it's safe to say you're living beyond your means.
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  10. And public housing takes double that.
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  11. Strong and independent until access to social assistance is cut off.
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  12.  @Kelseyveg  Depression is not a valid excuse for not keeping the place clean.
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  13.  @annakoniarska1376  Rent control does not work especially in the long run.
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  14. Governments do more to exacerbate rather than alleviate poverty.
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  15.  @NileshKanani-yw9jg  It's just a Toronto and Vancouver issue.
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  16.  @meowmiaumiauw  But English Canada represented by Toronto and Vancouver is a product of the British-US way of doing things.
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  17. But the waiting list for co-op housing is just about as long as that for public housing.
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  18. What about city housing?
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  19. Didn't they already do that in 2020?
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  20. And get your finances in order.
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  21. What world? Housing is not a major issue in North Korea or Cuba or China.
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  22. Hmm. Let me see. The country embraced Marxism and everything associated with it including feminism.
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  23. Or Manitoba.
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  24.  @nguyenphuongchang3925  High rent is just the price to pay to live in the big city.
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  25. Except the average NYCer makes more than the average Canadian.
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  26. Not really. Affordable housing = run-down slums, long waiting lists, high crime, government-owned. <How about landlords who want to renovate and give you a 90 day notice to vacate, telling you that you can move back after the renovation neglecting to tell you the rent will be 30% higher??????> That is to cover the renovation costs.
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  27.  @made2blaze  I'm a Gen-Xer.
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  28. Housing is not a right. No one is owed or obligated to provide it.
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  29. Exactly.
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  30. Governments benefit from the property tax revenue.
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  31. Because those are the only kinds of housing with a decent ROI that can be built given the zoning restrictions.
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  32. While some tenants exhibit pure entitlement.
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  33. India really must be that bad.
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  34.  @capitalismisdivisionofevil8322  Since when did it cost a lot of money to wash the sink?
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  35. And make the government the landlord?
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  36.  @alexakir86  Most Canadians are not poverty-stricken.
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  37.  @justincheng5241  And Canada enjoyed years of budget surpluses under Chretien the PM responsible for the divestment from public housing, using EI to pay off the debt and funding cuts to the provinces.
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  38. <and luxury rentals are popping up everywhere,> With the way local zoning laws are, that's the the only housing allowed to be built.
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  39. But it is because it makes up a good portion of Canada's overall GDP.
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  40.  @hermes8258  Are Korean and Farsi the official languages of Coquitlam?
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  41. Corporate landlords are the end result of zoning laws and other housing supply restrictions that ensure only the richest of the rich can afford to build and own property.
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  42. Airbnb and renovictions are just consequences of landlords recouping whatever money they lost from not being legally allowed to raise the rent accordingly to cover the ever-rising expenses including insurance and property tax or evict bad tenants in a timely manner.
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  43.  @scottmueller5895  <I know this will piss off a lot of people who invested in homes> Which would be 66% of Canadians.
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  44. LOL.
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  45. But too proud to live in a less prestigious place.
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  46. But Montreal is not like the rest of Canada or North America in general. It doesn't go by the British-US way of doing things.
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  47. Due to city folks moving in with the benefit of working from home.
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  48. <Undo Thatcherism and bring back socialism> The same socialism that bankrupted the UK in the 70's giving way to Thatcher?
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  49. Rental control helped cause the housing shortage.
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  50. <sorry we dont offer this to men for some reason> Because Canada like the rest of the West has gone gynocentric. Men and fathers do not matter.
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  51. But a lot do. Hence the average Canadian salary being $49 300. Only 11% of Canadians make 6-figures.
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  52. Tenants, take warning. Revolutions seldom end well as your heroes will eventually turn on you and become the very oppressors they replaced.
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  53. Exactly. My brother is 40 and has lived with me for the past 2 years having to move back to Montreal, because he couldn't afford the rent in Vancouver as he worked and still works contract jobs.
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  54. While socialism/communism is the epitome of a 2-class society. The government and the well-connected = 1%. Everyone else = 99%.
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  55. If so, then whoever's tasked with providing housing should have the right to set the terms and conditions such will be provided under.
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  56. <Canada used to be a great country but unfortunately over the years with more and more immigrants coming from abroad and having a false understanding of socialism and thinking it’s the same as communism, they kept voting for conservatives who kept slashing the social security and welfare programs and system that existed to prevent this situation. > Many of the immigrants have a good understanding of socialism and communism as they're fleeing not just them but the fallout that continues to plague their home countries. No one slashed the social security and welfare programs as much as the federal Liberals under Chretien and Martin did.
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  57.  @murder00redrum  Sounds like of the people in Canada have bigger issues than rent. They're living beyond their means.
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  58.  @OK-hl6qd  What right-wingers? Mass immigration is a left-wing policy.
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  59. With rent control enabling it.
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  60.  @ew6392  Reasonable only because it's subsidized.
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  61. No they don't. Disabled/elderly/child care should have never been the responsibility of anyone except the family and relatives. This is what happens when you sacrifice family and future in favor of career and lifestyle.
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  62. <why don’t you blame a developer who destroy an old house that’s affordable, and build a condo unit instead of blaming those who gives an affordable place to stay.> Affordable only because the previous owner was too cheap to pay for maintenance.
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  63. Pretty much.
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  64.  @ashleybosvik3031  Saskatchewan is for families. Not single people trying to live it up. That's what Toronto and Montreal are for.
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  65. Government intervention exacerbated the problem.
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  66. Then get some money so you can enjoy those rights.
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  67. Not if the landlord is the NYCHA.
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  68. What right-wingers? Left-wingers run Canada's cities. And British Columbia, Canada's most expensive province to live in, is run by left-wingers.
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  69. Not enough workers.
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  70. But local zoning laws do not allow it. Also high real estate values and bureaucracy all but completely ensure it will not be affordable to build if you were allowed to.
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  71. Or lucking enough to get city housing.
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  72.  @ShidaiTaino  WTF are YOU smoking?
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  73. Better than socialism's problems as found in the average government-run housing.
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  74.  @Redspittingcobra  LOL. Socialism helps society stagnate and regress together.
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  75. Like where exactly? British Columbia whose housing crisis is even worse?
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  76.  @parkerbohnn  You mean just like in Cuba where the middle class live in Miami.
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  77. BC has nothing on Quebec when it comes to co-op housing.
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  78. Government intervention is the reason why we have this problem in the first place.
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  79.  @tony--james  No. The NDP have always been and always will be the worst. Is there one province they didn't bankrupt when they got elected to govern?
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  80.  @bill...9566  Exactly.
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  81. Yes. Counting the money made from property taxes.
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  82. <The standard across the world should be if you provide a service you should be paid enough to be able to afford the same service you’re providing every day> No. You can do that by starting your own business and being a boss.
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  83. No. Rent control is part of the reason why a housing shortage exists.
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  84. And people live beyond their means.
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  85. <is because of our own issues and that its’ our problem and that we need to figure it out ourselves.> It may not be the only reason, but we ourselves do play an active and prominent role in why we're in this mess.
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  86. And owners outnumber renters 2 to 1 in Canada.
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  87. But according to Statistics Canada, the average Canadian makes $49 300/year. There a plenty of Canadians who make well over that.
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  88. Affordable = taxpayer-funded and/or subsidized.
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  89. Charging what the market will bear =/= greed. And tenants are every bit as greedy thinking they have the right to live in the most expensive locale on a burger-flipper's salary.
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  90. But a lot of co-ops are subsidized. Co-ops have landlords. At least mine does.
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  91. Not really. This is more of a Western problem than anything else.
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  92. Thanks to people from Toronto moving in.
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  93.  @therearenoshortcuts9868  NWT and Yukon don't even need people from Toronto moving in to jack up the living costs. They have high living costs due to being remote and requiring virtually everything to be imported hence the high transport costs.
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  94. No. This is the result of government taxing and regulating smaller landlords out of business leaving behind only corporate landlords to fill the void if not itself as the landlord.
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  95.  @christinamann3640  Not really. Canada has plenty of open space. Hong Kong doesn't.
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  96. <the fact that there are greedy landlords out there who are willing to charge over $2,000 just for a little one-bedroom apartment> How are landlords being greedy charging $2000 when there are people willing and able to pay $2000 for just a little one-bedroom apartment?
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  97. <Embarrassing how we allow our oligarchs to do this to us and our own children.> You voted for it.
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  98. Regulations exist already which is why AirBnB and renovictions are things.
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  99. But the average NYCer earns almost double what the average Torontonian earns.
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  100. Like Hong Kong?
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  101. Greedy renters thinking they have the right to live in a place they can't afford and don't own. Never mind that they live beyond their means and then have the nerve to complain about money problems.
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  102.  @scottmueller5895  LOL.
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  103. Would that include the greed of tenants thinking they're entitled to an apartment in the most trendiest neighborhood in the city they know they can't afford?
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  104. Exactly. And that's despite Clinton's best efforts to make it such.
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  105. Pretty much.
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  106. As long as demand, building and real estate costs and bureaucracy is high, affordable housing = forget about it.
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  107. Exactly.
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  108. How much did you make 25 years ago?
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  109.  @Bbc418  It is the point. Rent wasn't exactly any cheaper 25 years ago.
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  110.  @tony--james  <s to vote NDP...> And watch them bankrupt Ontario like they did in the early 90's under Bob Rae.
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  111.  @tony--james  But Ford didn't turn Ontario into a have-not province like Kathleen Wynne's Liberals did or made it illegal to mis-gender someone.
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  112. The poor in those countries live in shantytowns and makeshift shacks on the outskirts of the capitals and resort cities.
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  113. Who knew that socialism wasn't sustainable with open borders and too many freeloaders while punishing the productive?
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  114. The ruling CAQ are a lot of things but incompetent is not one of them.
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  115. Yes it does. And Canada's crisis has a lot to do with government interference in the market.
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  116. Increase in insurance premiums, repair and maintenance costs, property tax and other taxes, mortgage and interest, etc.
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  117. Including the government?
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  118.  @JA-ze6yb  Higher wages = higher business costs = higher prices.
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  119. <Manitoba is great place as well as Nova Scotia with great choices for rent> But limited opportunities and desirability.
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  120.  @st.k.4528  Exactly.
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  121. But the taxes are higher.
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  122.  @chavafinkler36  <To clarify, in Canada, people inherit wealth from their parents and do not pay any taxes. When people inherit wealth, they are not entitled to it.> Yes they are according to the parents that left behind something for their offspring to inherit. It's not their fault your own parents didn't have the foresight or sense to do the same for you. <They have not worked for it. They receive by virtue of their birth> So? <Why should rich folks receive money simply because of the family into which they were born?> Because that money was intended for them to have by their parents?
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  123.  @kellye1128  It is the landlord's house. It was he/she who put the money and willingly took on the financial and legal responsibilities to own the property. The tenant risked nothing except a rejected/declined application.
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  124.  @gary7vn  In response to Bob Rae's imposition of rent control that caused housing shortages galore.
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  125.  @rachelk8368  Yet housing accounts for a good portion of Canada's overall GDP.
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  126.  @gary7vn  So do their voter bases with the vast majority of them being property-owners.
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  127. <We need to have stronger renter protection and rent control. > We already have that. And how has that worked out so far?
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  128.  @Allin_00156  But 66% of Canadians can.
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  129.  @m.a.p.g.  It's most likely poor budgeting. Home Economics need to be brought back to schools.
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  130. Those people with vulnerabilities are not doing themselves any favors and are the primary reason why they are where they are in life.
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  131. Investors are far from greedy. If it wasn't for them, no housing would be built.
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  132.  @freestylefranc2653  Keep telling yourself that investors are the problem when they're the reason any new housing is built in the face government restrictions that make building costly.
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  133. And also the vast majority of the population are property-owners. There isn't much corrupt about the problem.
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  134. While envy is one of the shortcomings of socialism.
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  135. And they happen to make up 68% of Canada's population.
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  136. That's what happens when everyone wants to live in the big cities at any cost.
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  137. Real Estate is what's keeping Canada afloat.
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  138. Rentals are not profitable. And you can thank the government's rent control and punitive regulations on landlords for that.
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  139. The Prairies = no man's land.
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  140. Not really. Canada was always livable only to those in a higher tax bracket.
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  141.  @gary7vn  BS! They have the money. It's just that they want to spend it on partying and BSing.
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  142. The reservations make a valid argument against UBI.
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  143. <Landlords, in particular, have been known to take advantage of the high demand for housing in the city, charging exorbitant rents and refusing to make necessary repairs or upgrades to their properties.> Like any other self-respecting business man/woman. It's not that exorbitant to those able and willing to pay such price. <One of the main culprits is the sheer greed of some individuals.> That would include tenants who think they have the right to live in the most trendiest part of town on a shelf-stocker's salary. <Real estate developers are also guilty of putting profits over people, building luxury condos and apartments that only the wealthiest can afford, rather than creating more affordable options for the average person. > Because due to local zoning restrictions, that's the only kind of housing they're allowed to build with a decent ROI. Plus, real estate developers are not obligated to build affordable options and lose money in the process. They're a business, not charity.
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  144. But few have any desire to learn French.
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  145.  @missmurda90  .<so many immigrants coming to quebec > Mostly from countries where French is the official language
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  146. And not for as long as they insist on living in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver.
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  147. Montreal is nowhere near the worst. It's not even among the top 15 most expensive places to live in Canada.
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