Build houses. AFAIU, CMHC used to work with provides to do that. The houses could be sold below market price to people below a certain income, or rented out.
Build affordable housing. Rent it out below market rate.
More no-interest loans for co-ops and not-for-profit builders.
Put a lifetime limit on the amount of profit people can make on their primary residence tax free. Maybe 100k? Maybe 100k/five years of primary residence? I dunno. This would have to be on new purchases.
Get more people building houses. Carney proposes more apprenticeships, which is great, but that takes time - we should also encourage more immigrants to build houses as a pathway to citizenship.
Nobody in the trades should pay for an education. Our taxes should cover it. Ditto for healthcare.
There’s a bunch of other stuff that I like, but may not make sense: remove taxes on construction materials; lower taxes on the trades; crack down on money laundering; disallow foreign ownership of Canadian homes; make improvements on homes tax free.
Make the government build some god damn social housing. We used to build a LOT more before. Now we’re just hoping for the private sector to save us which is a god damn pipe dream.
Legit question here, what would you like to see in there?
Personally I’m not clear on where the responsibilities of federal vs provincial are on housing, so I don’t even know what we should be demanding.
Build houses. AFAIU, CMHC used to work with provides to do that. The houses could be sold below market price to people below a certain income, or rented out.
Build affordable housing. Rent it out below market rate.
More no-interest loans for co-ops and not-for-profit builders.
Put a lifetime limit on the amount of profit people can make on their primary residence tax free. Maybe 100k? Maybe 100k/five years of primary residence? I dunno. This would have to be on new purchases.
Get more people building houses. Carney proposes more apprenticeships, which is great, but that takes time - we should also encourage more immigrants to build houses as a pathway to citizenship.
Nobody in the trades should pay for an education. Our taxes should cover it. Ditto for healthcare.
There’s a bunch of other stuff that I like, but may not make sense: remove taxes on construction materials; lower taxes on the trades; crack down on money laundering; disallow foreign ownership of Canadian homes; make improvements on homes tax free.
Can… can I vote for you?
Make the government build some god damn social housing. We used to build a LOT more before. Now we’re just hoping for the private sector to save us which is a god damn pipe dream.
https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/weve-solved-the-housing-crisis-before-we-can-do-it-again