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Thanks to the Government allowing foreigners to buy up Canadian property starting in the 80s, then they kicked out existing tenants, jacked up the rent and rented to other foreigners. That started homegrown landlords to do the same thing. The cost of living increased every year as the minimum wage stayed frozen for several years. Our own government destroyed everything good that Canada was, pre 1985.

They don't need security or criminal record checks are exempt from foreign real-estate buyers ban. What moredo they need? Claiming assylum gives them free education rent and food for over 2 or more years if there counties were that bad they would have been able to come even as students.

Pay your damn rent woman

Keep in mind there are deep pocketed companies buying up homes and jacking up prices and rents.

That's the reason why rents are expensive/no want to rent to blacks/single moms/people have less savings.Then asking all info you marriage/job/history sometime genetics report ?.if we have a systems like Alabama Florida or Texas. Renting shouldn't be an issue.Sociodemocrats heck the system broke the society .Sorry but hard reality.Maybe you are member of one those mentioned groups and paying on time however most of them aren't

Came to Canada due to a war in Ukraine, love the country and people but found it extremely challenging to settle in due to the prices. We are just trying to survive and pay the rent and food. Almost 2 years here and no result. I am thinking to move out of the country as I really doubt the situation will drastically change in 2-5 years and I am not 18 years old any more.

Immigrants flooding everything but the remote parts of the country,economy in the tank,drowned long ago,housing is so high you can only rent beds now in most cities,liberals run everything,can barely get guns even for hunting,its like cali,canada sucks

Yeah Dikka you have to pay rent .

My father’s a physicist. We live on an old tugboat in Vancouver, and all his money gos to clothing, food, my high school tuition, taxes and rent. It’s horrible here.

I'm also leaving, and many persons I know are also leaving, it's not worth, you work to pay bills only, especially rent, and don't get sick because the health system, which is public, doesn't work

frankly it's totally shame I will never understand in my lifetime how there have never been rent caps or some kind of rules where it would be forbidden to rent an apartment for more than $1,000. Landlords are jerks too; they play the 'yes, we’re forced to raise the rent' card, but in reality, they don’t necessarily have to. They’re not always obligated to raise rent from $1,000 to $2,500. Honestly, do our leaders not think that one day people are going to come after them out of anger because their lives are ruined because of them? Do they not think about that?

There is a solution to that housing crisis, Get a Van live in it, save for a deposit then buy a unit or house or buy a house rent it out for 5 years It's even easier if you are living with your parents save for a house deposit rent it out buy another one and move in in one of them.

True true true.....i am a Canadian citizen living for last 13 yrs.\nHealth care is fu_kedup here..... When I visit hospital with my kid, the wait time is minimum 5hrs. Surgeries wait time is 1 to 2 yr. Everything has a waiting list. Inflation is present since the time I entered in Canada.\nGrocery prices are touching the sky. What we earn we spend. Its hand to mouth situation.\n90% products are from China. Its just grass is greener on the other side for the people who want to settle in Canada. There are absolutely no jobs. I live in a small city and see many indians kids doing Uber eats and Instacart deliveries for survival. The rent here is cad 2200$ 1bhk(approx.1.30lakh) for a small single share room its 70k. College here are scams, they take students to earn tuition fees.\nDo your proper research.

Why not little career colleges? Small businesses should have the right to have some market. That is why Canada has deteriorated as is right now, bcs small businesses and small career colleges are left with no market. All revenues go to big community colleges. Humber College is extending close to the lake. Small colleges pay insurance, bonding, rent, all other expenses. No revenues, for small businesses. This is a shame.

Don’t pay rent, they’re leeches

Rent here in Toronto is off the roof!!

Modern slavery is anywhere you go. Work for a company, you're living someone else's dream, but working hard like it's yours. Rent an apartment, you'll work like a slave to pay the expenses, so you'll never have freedom. Buy liabilities to make yourself feel better, but kill your soul overtime. That my friends is the reason why mental health will always exist in the modern world.

Tap water in British Columbia is in fact the best in the planet, even with all its homeless problems. Another thing is that Amazon drops your packages at your door and I personally Neven have stolen. You can sleep in a crown land for free. People work a little less here but things are a little bit more expensive for rent and food and not many choices in Canada.

I mean I live in Canada, and you seem to only talk about the two worst cities about housing and renting... I mean, yes it is hard everywhere in Canada. But theses extremely high numbers are not the normality.

My daughter is nearing the end of 2 great years in Canada on an IEC (backpacker) visa from Australia. She’s loved the people, the landscape (mostly lived in BC and Alberta) , and working there…. She picked up interesting jobs, worked very hard, just about made ends meet, has been great. \n\nShe was even offered a permanent job by a major Canadian co last year (she was working for them on a one year role at the time) that would’ve paved the way for her to apply for PR…but she turned it down without a second thought….. for all the reasons you would know about \n\n- Wages aren’t great (maybe 20% less than australia), \n\n- taxes are high (incl having to pay CPP…in australia the employer pays all pension contributions, on top of wages), \n\n- groceries prices out of kilter, \n\n- rents consume most of what’s left…. \n\n- AND, even if you could save a deposit for a house, or shoebox apartment….what’s the point, could never afford it. \n\nShe’s seen nearly all her Canadian friends resigned to their fate of being perennial renters, of being perpetually skint. It’s no life. She’s sad to see it - coming from a country of perpetual optimism and opportunity, to learn over time how such a (on many levels) similar country isn’t like that, that has somehow got it all so wrong. \n\nIf you are thinking of “australia” as your answer, it’d be a fair call\n\n- Avoid Sydney if you can (a less expensive Vancouver) but rest of the place is “workable”. \n\n- Average wage in Perth is $100k (C$90k) and average house (full size…not an apt or townhouse) price is about $700k (C$630k) …so do-able, if tight to start with, for youngsters (like you..!) \n\n- I’ve been to Vancouver’s East Hastings St, and so can confirm is nowhere close to that in Oz. Are sketchy parts of all cities, but it’s definitely not community wide\n\n- are small pockets of homelessness (esp but not only indigenous community) but the governments are mostly (sort of…) “on it” \n\n- sun, sea, sand… and the sharks rarely come close to shore!

3:13 She says rent increased by 7000 (Canadian dollars?) per month. What?

What a bunch of bullshit clickbait garbage. And his Vancouver rent is grossly exaggerated. He's probably some right-wing whining newcomer who does not know this area well. I live on Vancouver Island across from Vancouver. I have a beautiful apartment, just under 1000 sq.ft. with a 450 sq.ft. deck across the street from the ocean. I pay $1475 per month all included and I have a large dog. My son lives in Victoria in the top floor of a house in the beautiful Gorge neighbourhood: 1400 sq.ft., 2 bedrooms all utilities included for $1800. My sister has a 3 bedroom townhouse in Victoria, she pays $1500 per month (no utilities included). I only wish nobody wanted to live in Canada. I have seen the population here explode in recent years to the point where many people are having trouble finding housing and our infrastructures are not keeping up to the numbers. And they KEEP COMNG. PLEASE EVERYONE STOP COMING TO CANADA!!! ESPECIALLY STOP COMING TO BC! AND THAT INCLUDES ALL THE OTHER CANADIANS WHO KEEP MOVING TO BC. STAY HOME!! And that includes wholeheartedly the creator of this video!!

While affordability is def an issue there are a number of facts thrown around on this video that are making me question the data points being used. $3k rent sure, if you're downtown Vancouver and live on your own in a newer building with amenities which is what a friend of mine pays in Yaletown. But then I have a friends in KITS paying $1600, Main St $1500, Surrey $1100. There is not 7% of the population emigrating to the US. The rent can't be increased by $7000 as stated by the two girls, it's capped at around 3% annually, so not sure what the real context around that clip is. The girl who took a year to get housing at UBC - presumably she was renting somewhere else in Vancouver, I doubt she was living out of her car . Sounds like this was made with the most sensational examples which really undercts the video because I can't trust the other information about things I don't directly know. Having said that red tape has made building in Vancouver difficult and population growth has put huge pressure on the housing and rental market. Foreign investment purchases of housing has probably driven up the prices more than anything in Vancouver and as stated it has been linked to money laundering from drug money. It's the most expensive city in Canada btw, so while prices are high across the country, Vancouver is the worst of the lot, even worse than Toronto, so hardly an average example to look at.

THE EXPENSIVE HOUSE IS THE PROBLEM IN CANADA,,, THAT AS YOU GROW OLD IT WILL BE DIFFICULT.YOU NEED TO WAIT YEARS FOR HOUSING SUBSIDY...AND PRETTY EXPENDIVE TO LIVE IN RETIREMENT HOME.IF YOU ARE LOW INCOME CLASS OR POOR... THEN YOI MIGHT END UP IN THE STREET IN A LONG RUN WHEN YOU CANNOT AFFORD THE RENT ANYMORE. OLD AGE PENSION WILL NOT BE ENOUGH TO LIVE COMFORTLY IN CANADA.

As a landlord it’s not really my choice to push the rent up. I basically can’t afford to live there on my own and have moved back to my parents place and rent out my condo. I’m still losing 1k a month on renting it out. This country is a lose lose for everyone

Everyone is saying it's not their jurisdiction to build houses, but we all know someone has to do it. Selling houses that look like birdhouses for a million dollars and renting them out for 90% of people's income is unsustainable. The Canada we knew is different now. Provincial conservative governments and city mayors are playing politics with people's lives. The federal government should take a more aggressive approach.\n\nAdditionally, houses are being treated like stock market assets, with bidding wars and corporations holding onto properties instead of people living in them. New apartment developments are sitting empty in cities across Canada, being used as assets to trade. Homes should be for living in, not trading. The government needs to look into this issue more closely.

So hypocrite this Indian guys answer. Shame on them. Pooping everywhere. People don't even like to rent, they make mess and smelly ?

A Canadian from Mississauga. I left in 2012, bought a home in the heart of Istanbul Turkey for just $35,000, and now I'm living rent free, with my total basic cost of living (food, metro, internet, gas, electricity) just $280 a month, and I'm not even compromising on anything. I work online and spend only %5 of what I make on living expenses, but in Canada, I would be in the minus on the same salary.\n\nThe amount of stress when you no longer ever have to pay a rent again was all worth moving out, not to mention the depressing Canadian weather.

You touched on most of the problems besides the behaviour, as you the refusal to adapt to Canadian culture and values. ​​Plus stealing privacy. Today, most of us our information in hand of spam caller's from India. In immigration, in private sector (cellphone companies) credit card even buying or renting place the forms we fill out end up on those hand. Please Look on YouTube, FBI riad on Indian business in Bombay. You will know what I mentioned

The exact same statements are being made in Australia. We don't have housing for all the people. There are lines out the door and down the street at open houses. Our health systems and infrastructure is not in place. We are seeing bidding wars and 'hotbedding' (where you rent a shared bed with another shift worker).

situation is bad to worse in Justin T Canada look below news : \nCouncillor says Young girls being prostituted for rent in Brampton, Ontario, Canada\nplease vote to save Canadian where ever u go if it possible

situation is bad to worse in Justin T Canada look below news : \nCouncillor says Young girls being prostituted for rent in Brampton, Ontario,Canada

Wow the entitlement is mind-boggling. If that is the attitude that people have coming here on a temporary Visa. 33 years ago I had a temporary work reason to work in the UK I worked six days a week paid rent paid bills and we built a business that hired other people and put money back into the economy. I can’t imagine being out in the streets protesting it to the UK government that I haven’t been pretty to the privileges of people that were born and bred in the country and were there before me in Ontario we definitely do not have housing available. The cost of housing for a room is $1000 a month outside of the city, basement apartment is 2000 and Condo, one bedroom and den is about 3000. I’m not sure what jobs students are expecting when employment is not at all-time high and the healthcare system is already strained and failing people that need vital surgeries. Seniors are waiting three months for an MRI and students that were born here are having trouble finding employment because entry jobs are given to immigrants we are approaching UK and Ireland crisis levels, it’s not about racism. We don’t have the infrastructure.

So this is why landlord are arb and that causes a shortage of rental housing then the rents get higher \nThe reasom rents are so high is no one wants to own rental housing

Thw condo market is down \nWho really wants to biyna condo to rent out for income when your not guaranteed \nYou could lose your money \n\nFord,s 2:14 failure has consequences \n\nEmpty condos unsold units \nScaring off landlords \n\nGet rid of Ford \nThe next politian who days je will fix the landord tenant board and help comdos sales become practical again will get my vote

This is scaring off new landlords \nWho wont rent out their basement apartments \nFor every story like this their are alot of potential landlords who wont rent out their units and instead chosing to leave them empty \nThis is scaring people from biying condos \nAnd they should be scared \nReally scared

No wonder no kne will build rental.hpising \nAnd why no one will buy houses to rent \nThe reason people leave their houses empty is Ford failure to hire enough staff to run the landlord tenant board \nBefore Ford tenants were in front of the board six weeks after non payment \nAnd the appeals were processed in days and rarely granted \nAnd landlords could garnish wages \n\nOr even stop their tenants from collecting welfare if they are living free

The landlord board is a failure of the Ford goverment \nVote him out he got rid of most of the adjudication and turned it upside down .the backlog is crazy \nIt's worse for those on welfare because no one wants to take the risk at least with working tenants you can varnish the rent \nTenants not paying the rent is theft \nPolice should be able to charge tenants with fraud

Taxes danger homeless high prices for renting and buying cold weather low salary

Kudos to you for this video. My very optimistic view is good intentions did not produce expected results. Government should be understood as municipality, provincial and federal. Also inequality and joblessness in India has pushed more young people to for opportunities elsewhere. Who allowed sprouting of colleges? Who monitors renting of housing to students? What is responsibility of councillors MPPs and MPs? Irrespective of parties many of these elected positions of all levels are Indians. I agree with your thesis that Indians are mostly to blame. This prevents the right type needed migration and talent scouting that government needs.

If students stops coming here then real estate prices with collapse and no one will pay rent whole Canada will sink in gutter

Disgusting…. They are scamming the system. Asylum get 6000$ a month from our taxes. Take care of Canadians. International students just want a back door into Canada, they can’t even afford school or housing when they come and just claim refugee once they realize that. The government has allowed this to happen- taxing our incomes to the extreme when we work hard and can barely make rent to give it to random scam artists

shailendra sapra hss been renting properties without payinh taxes

I advice indians business people to buy house in city and increase rent double it. So we eliminate native and also Indian business people recruit only indians . Buy property inside city thats is our goal.

These criminals deserves to go to jail. Why are landlords automatically become 2nd class citizen whose rights happily abused by the system? Why do people who work hard for their money need to be shamed for being able to afford a 2nd property and be categorized as evils that can be punished by the tenant at will? This is not liberalism. This is more communist than communist China. Ask what happened if they don't pay rent there

If you’re not renting your spare 2 bedrooms to 8 Indian students you’re mi$$ing out. You can fit 3 in a tool shed or 2 on a balcony. Trudeau presented me an opportunity to print money.

Hello Sir, with due respect: i am an international student from INDIA, you are always welcome to stay in any of the 30 provinces in India! My question to you is, if an International student is spending 7000 cad each semester and completing a 2 yr program with total fee paid 28000 to 35000 CAD excluding the exorbitant rent like 1500 per month and grocery and personal tax, would definitely wish to get back some of the money they invested here in Canadian land, am i right? Would you be thinking the same way if you invest in India? Secondly, none of the employers are offering any white collar job or office job to these students unless otherwise they have Permanent Residency status here in Canada: the only way to get “PR” is to work for some pizza store or tim hortons- its not by choice, only jobs you have here in Canada for any students and now construction field too. So kindly don’t judge any international student from any part of the world on their skills. All we need is a way out by Planning our future. Lots of comments are on these kids: just imagine on a sports day or a national holiday or on a stormy day who will be serving you a double double? Who will do Uber… Please dont hate, just like any human we would love to be respected and we are not going to take back anything from Canada. Thank you

3 million newcomers in 2 years in a country of 41 million ya it absolutely drives rents out of control.

I find this amazing. Here is Darwin Australia, rents havnt moved much at all in ten years,,still get 3bdm house under 450 thousand,,high end around 8hundred to 1,3million Aud.

Canada has condemned it's children to be rent slaves for the rest of their lives.