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Well said Ma'am. I am also looking to leave what this country has turned into. Homelessness, rampant inflation and taxes, unaffordability of food and basic necessities, it's horrible what is happening in this country. I can't afford to retire here as housing costs are insane. Health care and welfare are overtaxed to the point of being useless. And it will take decades for this country to recover....immigrants who have come here are now leaving after not being able to survive here anymore. I can't trust the Canadian people to vote to get us out of this mess...

Right. Because it's the flood of flight attendants into the country that's driving up the housing prices. holy shit. Do you hear yourself? You want so hard to be racist that you'll latch on to anything. It's not immigrants that are making your lives harder, it's you're own damn fault. stop blaming other people.

Am immigrant from india and become citizen but now am against immigration because herd there is no housing no jobs and mental health crisis increasing ,crime increasing please check the reality and do needful

Investors and immigration drive housing costs up. So sick of realtors ignoring those facts.

Basically no one will ever own a house, and maybe can't afford a seniors home too. What's left arr the streets.

One only has to look at Western Europe to see the effects of unchecked immigration, with the unrest in the UK being a prime example. \nYou simply can't keep inviting those without sufficient resources, while you have present citizens living on your streets because of a lack of housing\nIt's also nothing to be ashamed of for putting putting fellow citizens first, ahead of migrants, who may or may not share your countries values, not to mention culture.

Come to Britain we have a marxist government led by Kier Starmer, free housing everything you need

Any other country would fight for their country, or like Ukraine wait till a country can take them in.. but not these..they fight k*ll all the time and we are expected to just let them in. Give them money housing etc and that ps more then we do for our own

As a Canadian, I am proud that we are finally the best at something even if it's a housing crisis lol. I lived in Vancouver for a while which is worse than Toronto for housing and I frequently saw adds that said: looking for female roommate to share bed, cleaning duties required also cooking, single female only 25-30 y'o 400$/mo and then there was a selfie of a 40-50 years old man. When I first moved there years ago, I rented a small room for 600$ i think (2015 or so) and there was no heating at all in the house. I was lucky to find a place in Fall before it got too cold but I was already uncomfortable. Apparently ''amenities included'' doesn't mean it's heated.

So its not an immigration problem but a housing problem? \n\nSo if there is a housing problem why are there record numbers of immigrants being brought here? That lady has no logic

If you move all of the immigrants to the lawmakers houses, that's when they'll do something about it.

We don't need any more people here, unless those people are highly skilled professionals in high demand - like doctors. The majority of people here are struggling, housing is unaffordable and in short supply, our health care system is a complete joke, inflation is out of control in parity to wage increases, and the liberal administration is incompetent, corrupt and wasteful.

If Americans are reading this, be aware, this is what a far left economic policies e.g. tons of regulations, difficult permitting and licensing does to housing market. You add to this rent controls and no one will ever close supply and demand gap in housing. Obviously reverting these changes is very very difficult unless you literally go broke look at Argentina.

There should be a section dedicated to housing crisis in German cities, because it's something that’s affecting internationals even more than locals. They mentioned it briefly, but this deserves more coverage.

TOO MUCH IMMIGRATION. \nDOWNWARDS PRESSURE ON WAGES.\nUPWARDS PRESSURE ON HOUSING COSTS. \nLOOK IN ANY ECONOMIC TEXTBOOK .

I think its the Government's responsibility to deal with the housing crisis too.

Not anti-immigration, just not wanting record levels of immigration and the huge surge in temporary foreign workers. Young people cannot find jobs as foreign workers are given the jobs. No one can afford housing and there is little supply and our healthcare is overloaded with the dramatic increase in population.

It is wrong not to pay rent when you agreed to it, but its also hard to feel sorry for people whose retirement plan centers around taking advantage of a housing crisis. Invest your money in businesses that produce something for society. One house is enough for me

The country needs to spend 92.5 billion dollars to solve the housing crisis in Toronto. That would build 250,000 homes. Spread the cost over 5 years, build around Barrie, Georgina, Beaverton, and Uxbridge. Spend another 90 billion on railways to those areas. Hire 50/50 local to immigrant worker.

We can't keep taking in immigrants when there's no housing available. The immigrants aren't moving to sparsely populated regions they all move to major centres like Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver. Housing builds haven't kept pace. I'm sure the landlords are dancing in the streets with the inflated prices they can now charge.

I live close to vancouver and this is overwhelming how many immigrants have taken over every neighborhood. Housing has gone up food has gone up scams have gone up i dont know what to do.....

Just look at cities in China, Japan, Malaysia, Thailand…More than half of the largest cities’s population are migrants from other parts of the country or from abroad. How did they sort out their housing difficulties but not Canada? Try to be creative problem solvers and be humble and learn from others. Developing countries are better problem solvers than the unimaginative West these days.

So the West Nato creates Chaos by Invading and Destablishing their Nations like Afghan..Libya..Iraq..Syria and then dont want the probelm to come to Europe???.All these migrants wants everything from your EU country..Free house..Free everything while their own EU Citizen is being classed as second class citizens,you only have your own EU Gov to blame for all the chaos that is coming to EU.\nNo wonder BRICS Nations are leading the way.

More skilled labors will be leaving Germany. My brother a senior softwares engineer already decided to leave Germany due to unbearable high cost for living and unable to afford a house for his wife and two daughters working overtime. IT companies in Germany do NOT pay US IT salary jobs. Me and my wife also decided for the sake of our daughters future to leave Germany for Poland in the next years. Poland has a bright future ahead and has become a central IT hub for US and Europe. Germany has nothing left to offer but high taxes, high cost of living, a bad and outdated retirement system, analog burocracy, no digital progress. I could go on and on. If you think to come to Germany as a skilled worked, DON'T, there are better alternative countries to choose from!

The new buildings that regular working citizens can’t afford, will be used to housing illegals and the government will pay landlords a premium fee.

A boat can only hold so much before it sinks. Canada already had a big housing and unemployment problem. I know people would love to be altruistic but you will end up drowning. It’s the same thing in the US and Europe.

I’m fed up…. I want this to remain CANADA …. We can’t even house our homeless afford groceries the crime is high …human trafficking is frightening !! My kids in their 20’s will never afford to buy a first time home

This is why landlords are lot renting anymore. Government thinks this is the way to help housing crisis by letting scums live free. Well they are teaching landlords not to rent. We have houses we don’t rent anymore because we ourself experienced a tenant who lived and abused the property free for a year easy. LTB was all tenants pro. Tenants were driving new cars every six months while we were going bankrupt.

This is sad . I am thinking of retiring soon and was thinking of renting but my son said no because of issue like this . I will likely keep the upper level empty and do Airbnb with the basement. I’m too scared to rent my house now

WHEN THE MEN BUILDING YOUR HOUSE, CANT AFFORD THE HOUSE THEMSELVES. THERE IS A CLEAR PROBLEM. TOO MUCH BUREAUCRACY FOR ABSOLUTELY ZERO RETURN. WE NEED AN ELECTION NOW.

housing crisis is happening all over the world and the US printing money that caused the high inflation not the immigrants ....

Here's a radical idea, prioritize bringing in more construction workers to build the housing we're so desperately lacking.

Borders exist for a reason. It’s not fair to citizens of ANY country to dump hoards of unknown, unvetted people onto us and our cities AND expect us to support, educate, provide healthcare and pay for them. People from poor countries think westerners and Europeans are all rich. In our societies we work extremely hard and sacrifice our entire lives to have a good future and healthcare if we need it. We pay a lot of tax to have safe cities and towns. When you dump thousands and millions of people into our countries we all sacrifice even more and cannot access housing, healthcare or social programs because they are overwhelmed helping illegals. That is not fair to citizens of any nation. The real difference would be teaching poorer war torn countries how to build fair societies. How to build an economy. How to develop a democracy. How to root out government corruption. How to be tolerant of other religions. How to take care of your own citizens!!

Australia, housing shortage and increasing rents \nUK, same.\nCanada same.\nGermany should not make the same mistake.

Uncontrolled immigration is a problem everywhere in the western world. I live in the US, supposedly one of the best, and had to fight for a long time to get into my apartment. Ignoring legal immigrants, did you know that the US government creates programs where illegal immigrants get free housing?

Less people less need for housing

As an American watching this I see many parallels. Lack of affordable housing, taxation … getting started in life after university is a shock. Especially if you aren’t used to the struggle of day to day living. There is global competition for skilled labor so expect it to be challenging. \n\nAs an aside the host seems to speak perfect American. Sorry England! ?. It seems more common now that Germans don’t necessarily have an English accent like they used to. Just an observation I find interesting.

Idea 1. Onagawa Container Temporary Housing, Miyagi, Japan, 2011. Temporary housing for new immigrants who have no housing or little support. Housing close to public transportation and a employment center. Housing and employment support until they get settled.

so. its bad governmental policy that caused the living crisis\nno public housing building

The real facts are that inflation in housing and food are because of the massive money printing after Covid.\nFact 2 is that Canada has become super rich because of the immigrants.\nFact 3 ... life is tough for everyone and we all need someone or something to blame. \nFact 4. Uk was destroyed after BREXIT and still hasn't recovered. \nFact 5 .....

Co op housing!!!

no they will find housing for the illegal immigrants but not for locals, legal immigrants will take care of themselves, again not only in Canada ????

my neighbors, a Syrian refugee family residing in Glenforest, Mississauga, Ontario. \nThe family arrived here three years ago and is receiving various social security benefits. However, I have observed that the father is working illegally in a butcher shop while the family continues to benefit from social security and other grants. They appear to have multiple sources of income, live in a free house, and are purchasing substantial amounts of gold, a new car, and their children are receiving educational benefits. This situation seems to be inconsistent with the financial situation of many hard-working individuals in our community. \nMy father has reported this issue to the Canada Revenue Agency, but we have not seen any follow-up or resolution. I am concerned about the fairness of this situation and how it affects the integrity of the benefit system.

So rental coasts have soared due to immigration but what about the housing cost, the drugs on the street and jobs where you need to speak Cantonese? Really?

There is not enough house nor job, but they have hope. Please don't use any drugs anymore.

What i don't understand is how leaders of a country are unable to predict this outcome.\nAnyone whit some level of consequential thinking can see this from a mile away.\nKind of obvious that you can't let more people in than you can provide housing and job opportunity to.\nDoes not take a genius to figure that out.\nOr better yet, try and stop the water flow from your shower without turning the knobs and watch what happens to the water.\nIt goes all over the place uncontrollably.\nThat visual is pretty much exactly how the economic and welfare status looks like for a country who let too much immigration slip through in too short amount of time.

If there's no housing, then people should really be opening their doors to these people.

they are using the immigrants to inflate the value of the housing $$$$ supply and demand simple

What is very concerning is that Canada has fallen from 6th in the world in productivity to 29th! That is going to hurt the economy and the Canadian dollar for a very long time. Trudeau tried to base the Canadian economy on housing and government jobs. It wasn’t sustainable. The Canadian working class has been devastated and it won’t change anytime soon. I wish I could change it as I love Canada.

It not that there is not enough housing, it’s that the rents are soooo high that people can’t afford it!! I can rent no problem in a very nice condo if I pay $3000 up!! This is a HUGE problem!!! The government says it’s building more housing but they still are wayyyy too expensive!!