The media is blaming immigrants for the housing crisis. They're wrong ⋆ The Breach
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Instead of halting immigration, we should regulate the investors and developers driving and profiting from sky-high housing prices

Some folks on here have been repeating this garbage as well

  • Victor Villas
    31·
    10 months ago

    a lot (most) of people with your view simply aren’t aware of the current rental (let alone sale) market situation

    What is my view, again? I think I am pretty aware of the rental market situation as I’m a renter myself, with a very recent contract.

    I don’t think ensuring the people entering Canada have an even somewhat affordable place to live is “anti-immigration”.

    If the path to ensure that is not allowing them to immigrate, it really is impossible to spin this as anything else than anti-immigration…

    • BedSharkPal
      11·
      10 months ago

      By that logic why not raise the immigration targets to 10 million a year? 20? 50?

      • Victor Villas
        21·
        10 months ago

        By which logic? What specific sentence gave you the impression that I think we should increase immigration targets?

        • BedSharkPal
          11·
          10 months ago

          If the path to ensure that is not allowing them to immigrate, it really is impossible to spin this as anything else than anti-immigration…

          If you’re not allowing everyone who wants to immigrate here the opportunity - isn’t that anti-immigration?

          • Victor Villas
            11·
            10 months ago

            It depends on which kind of debate you’re having and which definitions you’re starting from.

            I’d say that most people who would call themselves pro-immigration don’t go as far as saying that absolutely anyone should be allowed immigrant status, so I wouldn’t call being against that position anti-immigration.

            I do think that most people who would call themselves pro-immigration would agree that it’s understandable that provinces can dial up or down on immigration programs of skilled labor depending on economic circumstances. So I wouldn’t say that reducing immigration numbers in any form is an inherently anti-immigration stance either.

            I do think, however, that saying that we should reduce immigration because immigrants are making housing unaffordable is solidly on the anti-immigration side. There’s a pretty intuitive divide here.