Comments by "" (@shauncameron8390) on "Does removing rent control help build more apartments?" video.

  1. Simple. Regulation = housing shortages.
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  2. Better that than housing being unavailable even if people are willing to pay the higher rent.
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  3. <I just want a place to live without having to move out with a partner earlier than intended, so many condos, so few pre 2018s> BS! There are plenty that were built before 2018. It's just that they're all occupied by those benefiting from rent control and already have a place.
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  4. Which would be?
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  5. Because thanks to government meddling, that's more worthwhile than renting to bad tenants they can't legally evict in a timely manner.
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  6. With what money and whose labor?
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  7.  @curtisw0234  The government made it unviable through bureaucracy.
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  8. Due to government meddling that made rentals too costly to build and maintain.
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  9. What are San Francisco and New York's excuses? Both have rent control, yet their housing crises are the worst of the worst in the US.
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  10.  @lomiification  What lack of governance? Canada's housing market is over-regulated and only the richest of the rich can afford to put with the government's BS to get anything built.
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  11. Only to the ignorant.
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  12. Well, over-regulation brought about housing shortages and anyone seeking housing being SOL.
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  13. <And the units that are built now are too high in price.> Due to the costs of building and land acquisition.
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  14. No and not even close.
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  15.  @curtisw0234  Case in point: the USSR after Khrushchev.
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  16. Hardly. That's just a small price to pay to live in high-demand area.
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  17. The private sector isn't slowing down anything. The government is. <Corporate GREED is behind the DEVASTATING Housing Crisis> No. Try government greed.
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  18.  @catherinewilson1079  And you guessed wrong.
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  19.  @lomiification  Take that up with Jean Chretien.
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  20. Toronto is a liberal stronghold.
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  21. This is a government-created crisis.
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