Comments by "" (@shauncameron8390) on "Average rents in Canada soar above $2K for first time ever, new data suggests" video.

  1. Too much siding with the tenant put rentals out of the market as they're no longer worth investing in.
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  2.  @frankmoon9350  And jack up the taxes.
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  3. <on CPP.> Here's one of your problems. And why anyone young and working need to save and invest for their own retirement.
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  4. How could he in the face of rising property taxes, insurance premiums, mortgages, etc.?
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  5. Home tenants should follow their own advice. You want to live like a big-city person, then pay like a big-city person.
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  6. <Meanwhile landlords are ignorant of this happening > And rightfully so. Landlords are not responsible for tenant's wages. Take that up with the tenants' workplace employers.
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  7. Would that also include the greed of people thinking they're entitled to a place they don't own and/or can't afford to live in?
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  8.  @wavelength7503  Enabled and facilitated by government greed.
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  9.  @wavelength7503  LOL @ least capable. Are you that helpless? You're doing a much better job of losing than all supposedly good conservatives like to see you with your poor budgeting and attitude.
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  10.  @wavelength7503  A Boomer, I see.
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  11. And watch equally parasitic tenants pay even higher rent.
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  12. High demand, low supply.
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  13.  @richardramfire3971  Because property rights do no exist there.
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  14. Singapore has no land to build anymore housing. Just like Hong Kong.
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  15. And experience even more housing shortages having to pay higher prices for whatever's still available.
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  16.  @nickousticmusic  That's what TFW's, immigrants and high-school-aged locals are for.
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  17. Increase property tax = increase rent.
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  18.  @bonbonvegabon  Hardly. Most of the people struggling live in locales ruled by Liberals and other leftists. Namely the cities.
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  19. So are rentals due to government interference.
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  20.  @lapraxi  Rent control are the reason no one wants anything to do with rentals and renovictions are a thing. Hence, the lack of supply.
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  21. The government is largely the reason for the problem.
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  22.  @DarrellBrooks69  It figures. You're probably paying the price for not saving or investing during your working years.
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  23.  @Etaoinshrdlu69  <And a lack socialism prevents the government from building social housing.> Social housing = ghettos and slums. And socialism is the reason why there's a housing shortage in the first place. Zoning and supply restrictions.
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  24. Do the same for property taxes, insurance premiums and mortgages.
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  25. Actually they do. 68% of Canadians are property-owners.
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  26. Lower the property taxes and mortgages.
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  27. Including that of average people living beyond their means.
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  28.  @bonbonvegabon  And allowed landlords to recoup all the money they lost due to rent freezes and eviction moratoriums imposed by the government.
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  29. Exactly.
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  30. Who happen to make up 68% of Canadians.
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  31. But real estate is subject to the GST and PST like any other good or service.
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  32. I see yuppies, professionals, foreign students, etc. having no problem affording to live in those houses.
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  33. Also celebrities, professional athletes, etc.
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