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Renting went up 40% in 2 years. YIKES ?

This is why I will never leave my island. I own my land and home. I am rent and mortgage free. I have sunshine almost 365 days a year. I grow and eat fresh food and vegetables. I drink coconut water every morning. I have the blue Caribbean sea. Why the hell would I want to leave all that to be in the icebox?

Canada is not a good option now. No part time work, high rent,No field job after graduation,Csr point for pr is extremely high and Provinces are closing pnp programmes.?

We used to be landlords too but the system is just wayyy too pro tenant. They stop to pay rent and it take 6months for the court and many more steps. ItsBS

Honestly speaking, I never thought that there’s a lot of issues going on in Canada, during the college seminar, we were told that there’s good education (which is completely true), good pay rates for work, good housing and good society. After coming to Canada, I realized the rents are sky high, homeless people everywhere (it’s not their fault, they are homeless because of the government), drugs & weeds, everything’s expensive, high tax, couldn’t able to get even a low wage jobs? if I know these things are going to happen then I won’t come to Canada, also I don’t have enough money to pay back my education debt and I can’t go home without earning a single penny, I’m trying my best to spread awareness about the real issues that’s going on in here and I hope people will think twice before coming to Canada. \n\nOther than that, Canada?? is a beautiful country with amazing people, places and culture, I would love to be a part of it but if the situation is not gonna improve then I prefer to go back to India??

My parents are so scared they only do airbnb because of the risk. We clean every couple days to make more then what would be paid if we rented to someone. System is broken.

It would be better if they were allowed to work 20 hours per week like in the past. So, the local Canadians studying here are not getting the total forty hours job, rents increased abruptly, and wage rates went down because the students are working with minimum wage and getting the total forty hours. So, where would Canadian adults go for a job and housing? It is also not fair for students to work with low pay. Everything takes time to go gradually and ethically. Please, try to understand Trudeau’s points too.

We don't have doctors in canada \nNo job \nNo rent \nNo saving \nNo easy living

She could move to Ppennsyltuckey to my town and rent a whole house for 1000 or live with me for free!

Extremely short sighted, I guess they want a total collapse of Canada when there is 10 seniors to 1 under 30. I think they should just get a job. Also, these folks need to stop wanting to buy a house, just rent for life.

In Ontario, You lift a stone and you find dozens of indians.\nThe problem of high population of Indians has caused high crime rates, car insurances went up, less access to clinic and rents rises

My African neighbor gets 600/ mo per kid for daycare. She's a stay at home Mom. They have 2 kids and one back in Africa who's 16. They get 1800/ month for daycare. \nWhy would they want to leave.\nSomeone recently told me that upon arriving here had his rent paid for 1 year and his entire 4 yr University was paid for which he then didn't use.\nThis Country is a joke.

No more indian to get in if just only waiting money for the government.every each person in canada is worse situations...rent and food are too high price

Canadian citizens born in Canada are not getting jobs age 19 years or so. If they do then they are not getting full hours, international students have taken up the jobs. Shortage of houses. rents have gone up exponentially. survival has become a challenge.

Fake\nWork visa is still applicable\nForeign workers are have hike house rent for owners to pay instalments.

I took a new job recently, only to find that I was the only caucasian..... Immigration should have been cut off 8 years ago. Since, then, rent doubled, and wages have gone down. Thanks, JT!

Us as Canadians need to deal with this issue in a better manner.\nTrudeau did this by design, it’s all about dividing the masses and causing chaos. \n\nThe immigration levels are insane, in the last 4 years, I’ve seen more Indians and Philippinos than ever. \nCanada is built on immigration but everyone needs a place to live. Everyone needs a job.\n\nTelling me to go home because there isn’t enough room isn’t rude, it’s not about being a bigot or racist. \n\nPeople are literally starving, going homeless, not being able to get by.\n\nSo yes when you see a bunch of immigrants taking over all the jobs, it’s a little concerning. \nEspecially when 10 of them can rent one apartment. How does that make sense.\n\nNobody is speaking up though, they do it in the worst way possible, if they do.

We don't find job ! In canada \nRent is too expensive \nNo doctors \nNo jobs no life \n\nWe need jobs here in canada we need affordable rent \nWe need doctors \nWhat are you doing ??????

Very hard to find job \nAnd rent will take all your paycheck \nNo doctors \nNo jobs

No housing \nNo affordable rent in canada \nNo jobs! \nNo saving after 17 years \nNo doctors \nYou need to have daddy's business to be able to live \nNo one will help you \n5 months i'm looking for job and i'm canadian citizen \nSince 2007/2008 very hard to live and save and live normally \n\nDiplomas experience nothings is working \n\nThere is no good life

its not going solve any thing , rent is too high , food is too high , nothing is going to change no matter who is incharge of canada , and finding people to work will be harder because most canadains dont like low wage jobs !

Our neighborhood is full of Bangladeshi temporary workers. It's unbelievable every house owner rents its basement out for 4-6 people from Bangladesh.\nThe streets around are overcrowded , they are so loud and litter everywhere.\nHow suddenly Canada needs people from Bangladesh? They hardly speak English. How they got the work permit?

Most large Canadian cities look like upscale Indian cities. The number of new arrivals is absolutely mind boggling. You can walk around a neighborhood for half an hour and not hear a word of English. It’s ridiculous. Canadians have been screwed over, they can’t afford rent or food, schools are bursting at the seems, 8hour waits at emergency rooms all so Tim Hortons, McDonald’s and other massive corporations could have an endless and cheap stream of cheap disposable labour. Fuck Trudeau

Good job at $25 per hour. The person earns is gross $ 4000 a month, gets a net $2800, and rent for 1 bedroom Apt is $1500 to 2000. basement is $1500 minimum. Car insurance for newcomer is $500. Little money or no money left to live a proper life. That's why crime and Car theft is on rise.

Vancouver seems so cheap to me coming from Bangkok. I’m relocating to Vancouver from Bangkok. But my situation is different. I have an extremely high living standard in Bangkok which costs a fortune. Vs that’s just the baseline in Vancouver. People don’t realize how good they have it in Canada. In Bangkok, even if you’re wealthy you have to import your food to avoid Chinese counterfeit and microplastics and spend like $2 grand a month on electricity for medical grade air filters to deal with the pollution issue. My rent in Bangkok is $15k / month. Vs I can get the equivalent in Vancouver for $5-$6k/ month. So seems really cheap to me. Food is a lot cheaper than buying organic in Bangkok too.

Vancouver seems so cheap to me coming from Bangkok. I’m relocating to Vancouver from Bangkok. But my situation is different. I live an extremely high living standard in Bangkok which costs a fortune. Vs that’s just the baseline in Vancouver. People don’t realize how good they have it in Canada. In Bangkok, even if you’re wealthy you have to import your food to avoid Chinese counterfeit and microplastics and spend like $2 grand a month on electricity for medical grade air filters to deal with the pollution issue. My rent in Bangkok is $15k / month. Vs I can the equivalent in Vancouver for $5-$6k/ month. So seems really cheap to me. Food is a lot cheaper than buying organic in Bangkok too.

3:11...rent increased by 7000 CAD a month??? Wtf? Is it even remotely possible???

I lived in Calgary for 14 years. Recently moved to Europe and will never go back to Canada.\n-I needed stitches had to wait10h in emergency room \n-80% of my income went for rent and utilities \n-my car insurance $4800 per year\n-groceries bill through the roof \n-went to hockey games (burger and pint of beer $39.99)\n\nIn Calgary if your monthly net income under $6k forget about meeting end meets

The Landlord/Tenant laws continue to increase the disadvantage towards landlords. Tenants not paying rent for months and months and months being allowed to continue to live in the property is beyond ridiculous. Many of these tenants are completely aware of how to game the system, and the laws. The most recent changes did nothing to increase protection for landlords but did the exact opposite, making it close to impossible to evict a tenant without giving them a big payday.

They got 8 indians renting studio apartments

It was WAY too much, WAY too fast. My home is unrecognizable, my daughter can’t afford rent, it’s insanity!

This needs to stop altogether. Immigration is NOT an economic plan and as such has worn quite thin. It has become so difficult to own and run a business (at least in Ontario) and probably the rest of the country due to taxation and added things like carbon tax which has never been explained in a meaningful way. There is also an issue of interprovincial consortiums buying up franchises in bulk and hiring only foreign nationals to work there. These politicians are in denial and have no stake in this which is why it seems like a viable solution. Some of them are also landlords and involved in the secondary mortgage market with investment funds, all the while making policy to keep working people and the middle class off the property ladder. You can’t get approved for a 2000 dollar a month mortgage but you sure can rent one of their properties through a buying consortium for 3500 dollars a month. It is obscene the grift that has taken place and all the while they have had a hand in fomenting a purchasing frenzy for homes which drives their property values / investments through the roof, sometimes to the tune of 10x what they paid for them. It is corrupt and if anyone thinks that 25million dollar Pollievre is going to be different then think again…..it will be a repeat of Stephen Harper only worse (he is pulling the strings for Pollievre.

How do you spend 120% of your income on rent? That doesn't work

If you don't pay your rent, then you are a squatter. You should be arrested and put in jail. The squatter is guilty of grand theft.

And the problem is, the tribunal does nothing to collect rents the tenants owe after filings!!! \n\nGuidelines are written for the gov!!!

The problem is not legal immigration. People who come to Canada legally have the means to pay rent because they have work and some even buy properties. THE PROBLEM IS ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION!

Scammer not a tenant. Why would anyone want to rent, this is the government making rent more expensive.

Retire in the Philippines(not in Manila), cheaper rent and cheaper food..if ur into surfing go to Siargao .

I'm in Southern California. Several years ago our neighbor down the street got new renter,'s, they looked great on paper. As soon as the landlord handed over the keys, the nightmare began. Four adults who were not even on lease moved in, they had visitor's at all hours of the day, never paid a penny in rent, it took one year to get them out. House was totally thrashed. Owner lost rent money, in addition lost $30K to have repairs made. These scammers who play the system have no SOUL, zero morals. It's such a shame the laws are made to protect the SCUM of the earth who do this all their life to honest hard working people

BEAUTIFUL Beautiful Woman CANADA TO EXPENSIVE RENT $2.600.00 CRAP JOBS TEMP AGENCY LOW WAGES!!!!! ????? POOR TREATMENT ????? CANADA NEEDS IMPROVEMENT BIG TIME

Those girls that said their landlord increased the rent by 7000?? That's not even close to being legal

Your kids can't afford rent or find a job, but take heart. This fella gets to stay in Canada and will one day draw a fta pension.

After I moved to Germany I realized that people in general do not have freedom. Yes you have the freedom to shape your life, Germany is not an autocratic country, however the hardness of life forces you to follow certain paths. Even the smallest changes you make brings a lot of bureucratical burden and risk. That is why you live a llmited life. \n\nAs expats we changed jobs several times to find better opportunities but Germans do not change much. I asked the reason and they answered establishing a life is very hard here, so after you manage it you try to maintain it. These guys were not happy with their jobs but cannot change it because it cost a lot. First, they are living in a formerly rented flat so if they change their jobs they know that they would pay more when they move. Second, after some age they know it is not easy to find a job so they don't want to risk it in a new environment with that 6 months long probation period.

I living in Australia in Sydney and we are not bad yet but I can see we going that direction . To buy property the price tag cost around million dollars and more ? and everything going more expensive ! It is even difficult to find renting property \nAs results the homeless is growing and going to be worse !

i like how i assumed from the picture the indian owned and the black woman rented and my racism was proved right sigh.

Come to UK I have a house kiving on my own, I dont charge high rents.

My landlord took the whole building to Tenant Landlord board to get back every dime from the pandemic freezing rent, and now they applied again to raise rent to 5.4% on top of the annual 2.5% which will be 8% in one year if the Tenant Landlord approved.....considering 2.5% was a new rate for this year.......God bless them the landlord, the TLboard, the goverment

If the government people and judges owned those houses and condos and were not getting rent, pretty sure they would change things quickly

Pay your rent, you entered into a contract with this Landlord who has been more than fair, $41,000 in back rent is an utter disgrace!! I rented for 50 years and the first thing to come out of my pay was the rent and then the bills, and anything left over was for me!! Take some responsibility, step up and start paying this debt off asap!!

This is Canada, the tenant and landlord board only protects the tenants. Let all the landlords sell their properties and less property available for rent in the future. This means tenants have to pay higher and higher rent if the problem not solved.