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While the process wasn’t well done the government wasn’t wrong to try to give young people the option to have a house in a neighbourhood The issue is how many of those supposed 1.5 million homes that Ford keeps saying he wants built in the next several years will actually be affordable rather than being large luxury homes starting off at 700-800k and going above 1 million? I seriously doubt there were going to be many homes that Ford was trying to get his developer friends to build that would be smaller and starting at 500k or so. Heck are there many 2-3 bedroom condos being built that start at that price let alone a townhouse or larger home? The much easier and FASTER way to get people housed at an affordable price would be to get rid of vacant homes and reduce the number of airbnb units and get owners to either sell or rent them out. Also if you drastically reduce immigration/refugee numbers for 5-10 years you'll have less people competing for existing homes while construction can catch up abit in building new homes.
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@scottb9026 prices won’t fall until the supply of housing meaningfully increases. Townhouses in Burlington can be over a million and to many a townhouse used to be a good place to start your home ownership journey. Prices won't fall until the demand for housing goes down and the kind of housing that's being built doesn't cost so much. Demand can't fall if you're importing 500k-1+ million foreigners every single year who are competing for housing with the previous year's 1 million newly added foreigners who are also competing with the previous year's newly added people and so on and so forth and we haven't even gotten to the current Canadian population who are competing with all these people. For example hemming in the GTA by the green belt increases the value of the land in the city. Municipal councillors say no far too often and drag developers to the land tribunal driving up costs. Ford's own advisors said that there was more than enough land to build new housing on for many years WITHOUT the need to touch anymore Greenbelt land. The only reason developers are wanting more Greenbelt land now is because they're thinking of the future where they want to keep a continuous supply coming in that they can continue to build on. If developers have a 5 year supply of land already approved for them to build on, why wait until that supply is almost gone before you look for more land? Also there's TONS of land beyond the Greenbelt that developers can buy up and build on and yet they don't do it, gee I wonder why? Maybe in part its because its too far away from the GTA and people don't want to live that far from the busiest part of Ontario? There are a whole list of reasons why immigration won’t be reduced on an annual basis. No mainstream politician is going to call for cuts to immigration whether we are ready for them with jobs and housing or not so the only answer I see is build more houses. And more the 1.5 million more like 3. 1.5 is a great start but the next generation deserves more than that! And that's the whole damn reason why we're in this horrible situation to begin with and why its getting worse with every year. Any SANE politician who gives a damn about Canada and its people would be DEMANDING lower immigration numbers and allowing fewer refugees and asylum seekers etc. into the country every year. The fact that only Maxime Bernier and his PPC party are the only politicians even willing to public state they want lower immigration numbers and as a result are called 'xenophobic' and 'far right' is the reason why Canada is going down the drain. A large part of Canada's economy is built on a house of cards and neither the Liberals or PC are willing to acknowledge this and actually do something about it. As for building our way out of our current housing crisis, there's ZERO chance that can ever happen if you don't stop the bleeding to begin with. And this doesn't even account for the massive burden on our healthcare and other social services, on our infrastructure and the impact on our society in terms of increased rates of crime and violence and the destruction of what it means to be a 'Canadian'.
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