In a country with some of the world’s most expensive real estate, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government wants housing to become more affordable.

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    1 year ago

    Whenever they say “I don’t want to drive down prices” that demonstrates a fundamental unseriousness about the crisis.

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      Yes. By having an official policy of propping up prices, the government is effectively giving a subsidy to homeowner profits at the cost of renters.

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      Housing was expensive four years ago, that was before prices almost doubled. Policy that lowers prices to those levels would put home ownership in the reach of many.

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      I think you’re assuming waaay too much about the seriousness of this statement. It’s a politician assuring the losers of a policy they won’t lose by rewording the policy a different way.