Use The Maple’s searchable database to discover which provincial representatives are landlords or invested in real estate.
  • BlameThePeacockEnglish
    45·
    1 year ago

    This isn’t exactly mind blowing, 65%, of residential properties are lived in by their owners.

    Given that you need a bit of wealth to even run as a candidate, you’d expect them to have bought a house.

    • undercrust
      12·
      1 year ago

      Its landlords - so non-principal residences - and invested in real estate as in ownership of REITs or private real estate corporations.

      So, nothing at all to do with principal residences, which is pretty amazingly clear when you click the link and read the article.

        • Kichae@kbin.social
          2·
          1 year ago

          It’s not a false narrative at all. It’s an ideological difference.

          You think personal property is a financial investment. Some of us see it as a home.

          You’re emblamatic of what’s wrong with the housing market.

        • undercrust
          2·
          1 year ago

          I’m confused. Are you saying that no one should own a home?

          The whole purpose of this is to identify those politicians that have a conflict of interest in making decisions regarding primary housing for Canadians.

          Investment property owners (non-principal properties) have a conflict of interest because they may not want to make new rules that would affect taxation of income or capital, institute rent controls, or adversely impact current property values.

          Those invested in REITs or REOCs have a conflict because they may not want to affect the beneficial tax structure of REITs (flow-thru Trusts), nor limit the investment opportunities to non-residential properties (as right now multifamily and apartment REITs are wildly profitable and a major source of urban centre rent inflation).

          Those “invested” in just their primary residence and who are not landlords or real estate investors have (nearly all) of their incentives properly aligned with the goals of normal Canadians who just want to own their own home. Like all home owners, they may not want to see market prices decline, but ultimately most homeowners just want a place to call their own and to not see money go down the black hole of rent.

            • csfirecracker@lemmyf.uk
              2·
              1 year ago

              It sort of came off to me as you were considering primary-residence homeowners to be investors, and it seemed framed in a negative light

                • jadero
                  2·
                  1 year ago

                  Okay, I think I see where you’re coming from. You seem to think that any purchase of a capital asset for personal gain is an investment. That’s tough to argue against, but, in that case, I would argue against your contention that “an investor is an investor is an investor.” Not all investors have the same motives or the same impact on the market.

                  My grandparents, my parents, and I invested in our “homes”, not in “housing”. The plan was never about increasing value over time, but in being able to continue our lives with stable and affordable housing post retirement. Having nothing more than property taxes to worry about had a big impact on our ability to retire with “normal” jobs. We mostly ignored changes in prices, because we mostly didn’t care, because our motives were not profit, but long term stability of lifestyle. We got our homes paid off around the time our kids needed help with postsecondary education. We got that out of the way in time to make any major renovations or purchases in advance of retirement. And we got those out of the way in time for our retirement.

                  This is different from those who acquire housing for rentals or “flipping”. And neither are those people anything like those who invest in purely financial instruments that have housing and land at the foundation. What they mostly have in common is that they want, no need, to have the property continually increase in price, ideally faster than inflation.

                  That is a marked contrast with those who are “investing” in the place they live in and hope to continue living in through retirement. In that case, it doesn’t matter how or even if prices change, because it will have little or no impact on their ability to continue with stable housing.

      • BlameThePeacockEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        Considering how many homes have suites, it’s not really fair to say it excludes principal residences.