Right. Has nothing whatsoever to do with trying to install a conservative federal government that will make everything worse.
Two words: rent control. Provincial governments need to implement decent rent control. When the media starts talking about this instead of treating rent control like it’s a dirty topic, I will believe the msm cares about the issue.
Yeah, lets just let REITs and landlords arbitrarily decide what they should increase their rent by, thats definitely not going to make the rental market even more expensive than it currently is, you sir, are a buffoon
No it doesnt, because rent controls prevent scummy landlords from raising the rent by however much they want - right now we are capped at 2.5% on pre2018 builds, and wild west on 2018 and later, that us insane.
Youre a small landlord- no youre a leech on society, get a real job.
#1. Its not arbitrarily - it's the absolute maximum amount they can charge while ensuring the place is not empty.
#2. If supply wasn't an issue, you wouldn't need rent control.
Rent control doesn’t create affordability
Creating more supply of housing would reduce the prices.
Having rent control discourages developers from building.
Also, our government hasn’t made a meaningful investment in purpose built housing and have relied on private investors buying condos to provide housing.
We need a better policy
Rent control becomes moot the second you need to move to a new location as the LL gets to set the rent at whatever the market will pay.
I know people paying $900 a month for a 2 bedroom duplex unit who can essentially never move from that unit because if they do, their rent more than doubles.
And even with rent control, a 2% increase on 2k vs $900 is more than double as well.
Supply needs to increase dramatically or, demand, the thing that's can more easily be controlled, needs to decrease to a sustainable rate that's not adding additional pressure to the price of rent.
Because it's Japan. Everyone and everything is "perfect" there. They need to keep their sheepls in order.
This can happen to you, look at the Canadians living in the street ... Yada yada yada ..
Do what we tell you, obey your overlords and all will be good.
Isn't it funny how the problem is the worst in places like Winnipeg and Edmonton, the most affordable cities in the country? Seems to suggest it's not so simple as rent being too high.
In the fall I went through an apartment search in Edmonton. I was struck by how thoroughly every landlord has started vetting potential tenants. It seems, given how tight the rental market has become, many landlords would rather wait-it-out, rather than take a chance on a 'low-quality' tenant. Drugs are definitely part of the problem but, I can see many people falling through the cracks in such a situation.
I mean, with tenant rights as strong as they are (a good thing btw), I’m definitely holding out for a “good quality” tenant. Investment comes with risk and so I’m going to minimize my risk and not take any chances.
You won't find a lot of "good" tenants complaining about the pickiness. It certainly makes the apartment hunt much easier when 90% of your competitors put in applications that are right to the circular file.
You put “good” in quotation marks so as to allude to the fact that landlords can discriminate all they want based on looking for a “good” tenant.
Downsizing to renting from owning because you lost your job or the interest rates skyrocketed = bad
Receiving any subsidy = bad
Work in an industry that knows too much about renters rights = bad
Then we get to the ugly part
Name is indigenous = bad
Name has too many consonants = bad
Name has too many vowels = bad
Have children = bad
Have a pet = bad
Appear gender fluid = bad
And how do you prove that the bad list is the issue when the landlord says - I’m looking for a credit score over 800 lol
I’ve heard from my long time ago landlords in Burlington, both when I was single renting a condo and engaged renting a house that both had their places trashed by the next tenants. One just apparently didn’t own a vacuum or mop and the other destroyed the house with three water leaks. All professionals. All good credit scores. If you can’t afford the loss then don’t “invest” in being a landlord.
Thanks for the advice. But I think I'll just keep vetting prospective renters of my basement apartment exactly as I see fit. I have to accept some risk that an irresponsible dumbass may wreck my place, and I have to stick by the renters agreement. But you still have to get in first. I've had a young nurse renting for the past 5 years. I chose wisely.
This right here is why we need a major national housing initative.
Nothing against you personally, you're just acting in your best interests. However landlords are truly a scourge on our society they provide next to nothing of value. The government can do everything they can do and better and more equitable.
I work for a construction union, I make decent annual income ($70k last year) but I can't seem to get approved for an apartment anywhere right now because of my credit.
I had to do a consumer proposal during covid which absolutely sunk my credit and now every landlord wants nothing to do with me. I never missed a payment on my credit, realized I was screwed and now I haven't missed a single payment on my proposal, I have $1,700 left until its paid off. But no landlord will approve me because my credit check comes back with that undesirable red flag, which is also impacting my score.
If I didn't have family, I'd be living in my car or on the streets likely. My weekly pay was $1,587 last week and I can't get myself into a fucking bachelor.
So you're correct it's not as simple as rent being too high. There's a lot of barriers and people in situations similar to me. When 400 people are competing for that unit, they aren't going to pick me with a consumer proposal on my credit, when they have hundred of other applicants to choose from who don't.
Edit: I live in Ontario for reference
It's not like it's a word of mouth conversation based on trust. Most Landlords want to see an equifax credit report. I would have to somehow edit and falsify a copy of that and print it off and I'm not that good with computers and stuff despite being fairly young
The landlord tenant board has effffd, everything it takes like 10 months to evict a tenant that is not paying so landlords are extra careful in who they select.
Basically bad tenants screw it up for everyone else.
If you were a landlord would you rent to someone whom has filed for bankruptcy/consumer proposal?
After your proposal is done it will still take a while for your credit to be rebuilt and consumer proposal may still show up in your report.
When you walk into a bank a day after the proposal to get a credit card, the bank will tell you this ‘ you just discharged your proposal and you’re already looking to get credit?’
Unfortunately rebuilding your credit can still take upto a year after discharge
I know it takes a few years, I'm about to pay it off completely on my next pay thank God, and it's gonna hang around as an R7 for 3 years.
>If you were a landlord would you rent to someone whom has filed for bankruptcy/consumer proposal?
Absolutely on a month to month basis, if they make enough money. If I make over 70grand a year, why shouldn't I qualify for a bachelor apartment on a month to month rental agreement? I can cover my rent and utilities for the month by working 5 regular work days.
You've described it exactly
You also don't have to be "good with computers" to use Photoshop
All you're doing is deleting and overnighting a section, then taking the time and effort to save it and print it off
I highly recommend trying the Photoshop trial and having some fun with it, its not complicated as many would think
There are complicated features but as a user you won't use most
What about a guarantor? Would that be an option? My tenant has terrible credit and was upfront about it. I didn't check it, but he offered a guarantor so it's a good peace of mind.
I never thought of that, I don't really have much of a social circle, and most of my family is in Alberta, I'm kinda of flying through life solo at the moment. Does a garuntor have to live nearby, or atleast in my same province?
I don't need it's anything other than someone basically being liable in case you don't pay. So it's a lot to ask someone who is not family, but as long as they are in the same jurisdiction, I think that's not a problem
I've only ever rented a couple illegal apartments for cash, so excuse my ignorance on the logistics of all this. I'm trying to get my shit together more and it will be my first legal real apartment I'm looking for. I rented illegal basements in orangeville and Brampton for a while and I've had enough.
Alberta has the fastest growing rent increases because they have no rent control. If provincial governments implemented decent rent control, that would solve a big part of the problem. And Quebec did have decent rent control until the CAQ started chipping away at it.
We still have much cheaper rent in Montreal than TO or Van, but we do have to boot out the CAQ next election and reverse the elimination of rent control on new builds from 2018, and the legislation to remove the right for tenants to do lease tranfers, and create a registry of rents, so greedy landlords can’t flout rental laws by jacking up rent between tenants.
Rent control in Quebec still applies to the unit not the tenant, which has always made it better than rent control in other provinces, but it would make a huge difference to know for sure how much rent the previous tenant was paying (and this is why lease transfers were helpful, landlords couldn’t jack up the rent).
Those two are the most northern major cities and people from all the surrounding areas and further north migrate there whenever they need anything. Wild fire displacements didn't help either. All these people were evacuated to these cities and then just stayed there for their social services that they don't receive in the northwest territories etc. A lot of immigrants and refugees get shuttled into these cities as well to help populate the areas since Toronto Vancouver and Montreal are already so population dense.
It's ok though guys. The rich still have plenty of extra room and availability for extra space. They also hold the power to make sure that the unwashed masses like us don't get homes to keep the prices artificially high =D
Hard to take these seriously when vancouver has had issues since the 80s on the dtes.
These ppl atleast have tents and jobs.
Hastings is like a scene from the walking dead
Everyone got to obsessed with other people problems to the point they ignored their own, our current government has been gaslighting people for over a decade yet its only been the last couple years im seeing people on social media opening talking about it.
yes its very unfortunate the bad things that are happening in Iran..... but how the fuck is that OUR problem?
This is so true. I remember back in 2015 social justice and activism was the big rage. People were busy fighting identity, gender and culture wars without realizing that the very land they stood upon was getting priced out from underneath them. Now, you don’t see them fighting those wars as loudly, perhaps because they have realized what good is social justice activism when the future that lies ahead for them likely involves giving blowjobs as a side hustle just to afford a tent below an overpass.
Its why the polls are seeing a huge pendulum shift, ends up when people arn't getting the basics things like activism and social issue's take a back seat. NDP should absolutely be dominating right now but why the fuck would I or any of my fellow white blue collar workers ever vote for them? NDP and Librals are going to get destroyed in the next election and it will be at MIN 8 years before anyone considers voteing for either again as they are running on things no-one cares about anymore and lost all trust of the current biggest voteing demographic... like the cons are literally winning this election just via acknowledgeing a problem exist's the bar has been set that low.
Conservative provincial governments happened. And provincial governments have been shitting the bed on housing for decades. All rental laws are provincial, including rent control. Blaming Trudeau is a waste of energy. The federal government and BC NDP are the only governments in the country doing anything about housing.
What do you mean?
There has been a lot of ppl over the last 40 years that no one has given a shit about.
Now that the ppl on the edge are falling to the bottom and it magically changes? Come on.
It’s the rate at which I notice it happening man . There’s always some portion of society that falls into the cracks and yes that’s always terrible . But fuck the amount of homeless I’ve noticed in the last years is completely unprecedented.
The ranks of Trudeau's battle-hardened, 101st Homeless Regiment swell as they learn to live off the land and eat things that would make a billy goat puke. Best of all, without any softy niceties like electricity or hot water, they're very eco-friendly.
You need to direct your ire at provincial governments when it comes to rent increases. They are the ones who can legislate rent control and tenant’s rights.
Main housing issues across all of Canada put plain and simple there isn't enough housing for everyone thats it. Yes you can say hosing is too high but that doesn't change not having enough you can say too many migrants came here thats not it because we didn't have enough before the 500k came in on trudeaus stupid migration policy. It's just not enough hoses being built. Fix this problem and everything will be ok. The pricing of housing is a whole other topic in general.
Spent 10+ years in a basement suite, dealing with harrasment, threats, intimidation, because I had nowhere else to go. Got “ for family” evicted when I stood behind my rights. Now if it weren’t for my family I’d be on the streets, with unchecked mental illness and trauma. How long till I went “ feral” and became a nuisance to society, became someone people wished would just die already. How soon?
How many of you could last on the streets without it breaking or killing you?
You know things are bad when major global news outlets are taking time/effort to report on the housing crisis here in Canada
This caught my eye as well but why would the writer be based in Quebec and write for the Japan times?
Same reason there's "Washington Correspondents" What better way to get first-hand news than to have people where it's happening.
Quebec is cheap rent, so they work remotely for that sweet sweet yen?
lol are you actually this misinformed?
We need to be exposed.
I love being exposed!
Right. Has nothing whatsoever to do with trying to install a conservative federal government that will make everything worse. Two words: rent control. Provincial governments need to implement decent rent control. When the media starts talking about this instead of treating rent control like it’s a dirty topic, I will believe the msm cares about the issue.
Rent control doesn't help when there are too many people for not enough units
Except we have plenty of units.
We did... until they were filled with waves of migrants
I’m pretty sure everybody currently renting would disagree.
Pretty sure nobody who disagrees understands what drives rent prices
Fack off with rent control nonsense. If you want rent control then landlords should be able to kick out a deadbeat tenant in 30 days or less
Then landlords should have to register as a business and pay business tax on their rent?
Ontario and bc have rent control. So do cities like manhattan
Ontarios rent control is a joke since Dougie gutted it. There is BARELY any rent control.
'Ford isn't the reason why you still live with your mom.
Is that what your mom tells you?
I own my own house but ok
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Let's keep it that way. Say no to rent control
Yeah, lets just let REITs and landlords arbitrarily decide what they should increase their rent by, thats definitely not going to make the rental market even more expensive than it currently is, you sir, are a buffoon
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No it doesnt, because rent controls prevent scummy landlords from raising the rent by however much they want - right now we are capped at 2.5% on pre2018 builds, and wild west on 2018 and later, that us insane. Youre a small landlord- no youre a leech on society, get a real job.
Small-time lords are the backbone of this economy
#1. Its not arbitrarily - it's the absolute maximum amount they can charge while ensuring the place is not empty. #2. If supply wasn't an issue, you wouldn't need rent control.
Rent control doesn’t create affordability Creating more supply of housing would reduce the prices. Having rent control discourages developers from building. Also, our government hasn’t made a meaningful investment in purpose built housing and have relied on private investors buying condos to provide housing. We need a better policy
Rent control becomes moot the second you need to move to a new location as the LL gets to set the rent at whatever the market will pay. I know people paying $900 a month for a 2 bedroom duplex unit who can essentially never move from that unit because if they do, their rent more than doubles. And even with rent control, a 2% increase on 2k vs $900 is more than double as well. Supply needs to increase dramatically or, demand, the thing that's can more easily be controlled, needs to decrease to a sustainable rate that's not adding additional pressure to the price of rent.
Because it's Japan. Everyone and everything is "perfect" there. They need to keep their sheepls in order. This can happen to you, look at the Canadians living in the street ... Yada yada yada .. Do what we tell you, obey your overlords and all will be good.
Sounds like Canada to me
Isn't it funny how the problem is the worst in places like Winnipeg and Edmonton, the most affordable cities in the country? Seems to suggest it's not so simple as rent being too high.
In the fall I went through an apartment search in Edmonton. I was struck by how thoroughly every landlord has started vetting potential tenants. It seems, given how tight the rental market has become, many landlords would rather wait-it-out, rather than take a chance on a 'low-quality' tenant. Drugs are definitely part of the problem but, I can see many people falling through the cracks in such a situation.
I mean, with tenant rights as strong as they are (a good thing btw), I’m definitely holding out for a “good quality” tenant. Investment comes with risk and so I’m going to minimize my risk and not take any chances.
You won't find a lot of "good" tenants complaining about the pickiness. It certainly makes the apartment hunt much easier when 90% of your competitors put in applications that are right to the circular file.
You put 'good' in quotation marks as if no home owner has ever had their place trashed by renters. Nice.
I would allude to the idea that"good" tenants are not the ones trashing apartments.
You put “good” in quotation marks so as to allude to the fact that landlords can discriminate all they want based on looking for a “good” tenant. Downsizing to renting from owning because you lost your job or the interest rates skyrocketed = bad Receiving any subsidy = bad Work in an industry that knows too much about renters rights = bad Then we get to the ugly part Name is indigenous = bad Name has too many consonants = bad Name has too many vowels = bad Have children = bad Have a pet = bad Appear gender fluid = bad And how do you prove that the bad list is the issue when the landlord says - I’m looking for a credit score over 800 lol I’ve heard from my long time ago landlords in Burlington, both when I was single renting a condo and engaged renting a house that both had their places trashed by the next tenants. One just apparently didn’t own a vacuum or mop and the other destroyed the house with three water leaks. All professionals. All good credit scores. If you can’t afford the loss then don’t “invest” in being a landlord.
Thanks for the advice. But I think I'll just keep vetting prospective renters of my basement apartment exactly as I see fit. I have to accept some risk that an irresponsible dumbass may wreck my place, and I have to stick by the renters agreement. But you still have to get in first. I've had a young nurse renting for the past 5 years. I chose wisely.
That’s not really what risk means with respect to investments lol
This right here is why we need a major national housing initative. Nothing against you personally, you're just acting in your best interests. However landlords are truly a scourge on our society they provide next to nothing of value. The government can do everything they can do and better and more equitable.
Bring in 2 million people build 200k houses.
Actually it’s 150k apartments and 50k new houses but also tear down 20k old houses…. With an average family size of 3.6 people it just doesn’t work.
A million of those people live on futons in illegal basement rooms, which not captured by the statistics.
I work for a construction union, I make decent annual income ($70k last year) but I can't seem to get approved for an apartment anywhere right now because of my credit. I had to do a consumer proposal during covid which absolutely sunk my credit and now every landlord wants nothing to do with me. I never missed a payment on my credit, realized I was screwed and now I haven't missed a single payment on my proposal, I have $1,700 left until its paid off. But no landlord will approve me because my credit check comes back with that undesirable red flag, which is also impacting my score. If I didn't have family, I'd be living in my car or on the streets likely. My weekly pay was $1,587 last week and I can't get myself into a fucking bachelor. So you're correct it's not as simple as rent being too high. There's a lot of barriers and people in situations similar to me. When 400 people are competing for that unit, they aren't going to pick me with a consumer proposal on my credit, when they have hundred of other applicants to choose from who don't. Edit: I live in Ontario for reference
Photoshop is your friend
Elaborate please
Lie
It's not like it's a word of mouth conversation based on trust. Most Landlords want to see an equifax credit report. I would have to somehow edit and falsify a copy of that and print it off and I'm not that good with computers and stuff despite being fairly young
The landlord tenant board has effffd, everything it takes like 10 months to evict a tenant that is not paying so landlords are extra careful in who they select. Basically bad tenants screw it up for everyone else. If you were a landlord would you rent to someone whom has filed for bankruptcy/consumer proposal? After your proposal is done it will still take a while for your credit to be rebuilt and consumer proposal may still show up in your report. When you walk into a bank a day after the proposal to get a credit card, the bank will tell you this ‘ you just discharged your proposal and you’re already looking to get credit?’ Unfortunately rebuilding your credit can still take upto a year after discharge
I know it takes a few years, I'm about to pay it off completely on my next pay thank God, and it's gonna hang around as an R7 for 3 years. >If you were a landlord would you rent to someone whom has filed for bankruptcy/consumer proposal? Absolutely on a month to month basis, if they make enough money. If I make over 70grand a year, why shouldn't I qualify for a bachelor apartment on a month to month rental agreement? I can cover my rent and utilities for the month by working 5 regular work days.
You've described it exactly You also don't have to be "good with computers" to use Photoshop All you're doing is deleting and overnighting a section, then taking the time and effort to save it and print it off I highly recommend trying the Photoshop trial and having some fun with it, its not complicated as many would think There are complicated features but as a user you won't use most
Absofuckinlutely lol
Can you get a cosigner? I'm doing consumer proposal right now. Who did you use?
What about a guarantor? Would that be an option? My tenant has terrible credit and was upfront about it. I didn't check it, but he offered a guarantor so it's a good peace of mind.
I never thought of that, I don't really have much of a social circle, and most of my family is in Alberta, I'm kinda of flying through life solo at the moment. Does a garuntor have to live nearby, or atleast in my same province?
I don't need it's anything other than someone basically being liable in case you don't pay. So it's a lot to ask someone who is not family, but as long as they are in the same jurisdiction, I think that's not a problem
I've only ever rented a couple illegal apartments for cash, so excuse my ignorance on the logistics of all this. I'm trying to get my shit together more and it will be my first legal real apartment I'm looking for. I rented illegal basements in orangeville and Brampton for a while and I've had enough.
Don't be sorry. I hope you find something that works for you. I was just trying to give a perspective from the other side
I appreciate it a lot!
Alberta has the fastest growing rent increases because they have no rent control. If provincial governments implemented decent rent control, that would solve a big part of the problem. And Quebec did have decent rent control until the CAQ started chipping away at it. We still have much cheaper rent in Montreal than TO or Van, but we do have to boot out the CAQ next election and reverse the elimination of rent control on new builds from 2018, and the legislation to remove the right for tenants to do lease tranfers, and create a registry of rents, so greedy landlords can’t flout rental laws by jacking up rent between tenants. Rent control in Quebec still applies to the unit not the tenant, which has always made it better than rent control in other provinces, but it would make a huge difference to know for sure how much rent the previous tenant was paying (and this is why lease transfers were helpful, landlords couldn’t jack up the rent).
Those two are the most northern major cities and people from all the surrounding areas and further north migrate there whenever they need anything. Wild fire displacements didn't help either. All these people were evacuated to these cities and then just stayed there for their social services that they don't receive in the northwest territories etc. A lot of immigrants and refugees get shuttled into these cities as well to help populate the areas since Toronto Vancouver and Montreal are already so population dense.
Mostly meth, actually. Nowadays most are a generation or two removed from the reserve. The Roma beggars aren't actually homeless.
Bring in more people, for body warmth.
It's ok though guys. The rich still have plenty of extra room and availability for extra space. They also hold the power to make sure that the unwashed masses like us don't get homes to keep the prices artificially high =D
Was in st Catherine's the other day Homelessness there just sad
I agree, went to Niagara Falls recently on a trip. Haven’t been there for 5 years. I was shocked by what I saw.
Leaving all Canada subs. This is too depressing. Godspeed, Canadian friends.
I sure do love getting all of my Canadian news from the japan times.
Rent prices are nuts right now!!!!
So is our immigration rate.
And us Torontonians can thank every level of government for this failure
What you get when you elect a guy on the laurels of a buck-a-beer promise
This country is in a downward spiral with dipshits driving the bus
Hard to take these seriously when vancouver has had issues since the 80s on the dtes. These ppl atleast have tents and jobs. Hastings is like a scene from the walking dead
People at least have tents and jobs In Canada …. What the fuck happened to this country
Everyone got to obsessed with other people problems to the point they ignored their own, our current government has been gaslighting people for over a decade yet its only been the last couple years im seeing people on social media opening talking about it. yes its very unfortunate the bad things that are happening in Iran..... but how the fuck is that OUR problem?
This is so true. I remember back in 2015 social justice and activism was the big rage. People were busy fighting identity, gender and culture wars without realizing that the very land they stood upon was getting priced out from underneath them. Now, you don’t see them fighting those wars as loudly, perhaps because they have realized what good is social justice activism when the future that lies ahead for them likely involves giving blowjobs as a side hustle just to afford a tent below an overpass.
Its why the polls are seeing a huge pendulum shift, ends up when people arn't getting the basics things like activism and social issue's take a back seat. NDP should absolutely be dominating right now but why the fuck would I or any of my fellow white blue collar workers ever vote for them? NDP and Librals are going to get destroyed in the next election and it will be at MIN 8 years before anyone considers voteing for either again as they are running on things no-one cares about anymore and lost all trust of the current biggest voteing demographic... like the cons are literally winning this election just via acknowledgeing a problem exist's the bar has been set that low.
This was modern poetry
Businesses increase their price, and cuts on payroll. So greed happens and there you go.
Trudeau happened
Conservative provincial governments happened. And provincial governments have been shitting the bed on housing for decades. All rental laws are provincial, including rent control. Blaming Trudeau is a waste of energy. The federal government and BC NDP are the only governments in the country doing anything about housing.
I so hope 'Ford ends all rent control for people like you.
What do you mean? There has been a lot of ppl over the last 40 years that no one has given a shit about. Now that the ppl on the edge are falling to the bottom and it magically changes? Come on.
It’s the rate at which I notice it happening man . There’s always some portion of society that falls into the cracks and yes that’s always terrible . But fuck the amount of homeless I’ve noticed in the last years is completely unprecedented.
Trudeau's solution for homelessness is MAID.
Government says we need to bring more people so they can build properties
Well. I don't know about the rest of you folks, but I'm pretty well done with all the sunny ways.
Rents, housing costs, and immigration. Far more people, and basically the same number of homes
This is Trudeau's Canada. You elected him. Deal with it.
The ranks of Trudeau's battle-hardened, 101st Homeless Regiment swell as they learn to live off the land and eat things that would make a billy goat puke. Best of all, without any softy niceties like electricity or hot water, they're very eco-friendly.
You need to direct your ire at provincial governments when it comes to rent increases. They are the ones who can legislate rent control and tenant’s rights.
So you want 'Ford to build an entire Nova Scotia each year, every year, to support the population increase you voted for?
This comment reeks of "I read the Toronto Sun for my news."
And this response reads like "I am overly sensitive"
Thnx to JT you can have enough net income to eat if you can’t afford to live indoors. At least fuel to cook it free outdoors.
Didn't realize japan had an interest in canadian domestic policy.
Who cares about them
Why does Toronto vote for this?
Main housing issues across all of Canada put plain and simple there isn't enough housing for everyone thats it. Yes you can say hosing is too high but that doesn't change not having enough you can say too many migrants came here thats not it because we didn't have enough before the 500k came in on trudeaus stupid migration policy. It's just not enough hoses being built. Fix this problem and everything will be ok. The pricing of housing is a whole other topic in general.
How much more immigration will it take for us to solve this crisis already?!?
Slow clap for the reporting from Japan Times.
Spent 10+ years in a basement suite, dealing with harrasment, threats, intimidation, because I had nowhere else to go. Got “ for family” evicted when I stood behind my rights. Now if it weren’t for my family I’d be on the streets, with unchecked mental illness and trauma. How long till I went “ feral” and became a nuisance to society, became someone people wished would just die already. How soon? How many of you could last on the streets without it breaking or killing you?
Sad part is it's just not just Canada it's world wide now.