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thank you for shedding light on this. its a very real problem here especially the greater toronto area i'm 21 years old and i work full time yet can't afford rent because everywhere affordable only takes indians and crams everyone in like sardines.

And they still wonder why people don't like them, they keep creating these adds where they say they want to rent to indians only and call the rest of us discriminatory? And its not racism because the hate is not targeted to other brown people. Its sepecific to indian and they created the conditions for the hate they receive. They don't want to integrate, every place they get in either work or housing they do their best to indianize it. I don't understand why they get suprised by the pushback they receive from the reat of the country.

Good they added way too many immigrants. My rent went way too high because they didnt build homes fast enough for the demand. Rent went from 800 a month 5 years ago to 2400 a month. X3 in 5 years

Many immigrants student come here because of the low tuition cost but then must be homeless while studying because rent are to high for full time students.

I have been living in Alberta since 2014. A two bedroom apartment near YYC was around $1350 per month in 2019, is now $2050 monthly as of July 2024. There is no cap on rent increase in Alberta so the apartment management companies and house owners are increasing the rent to whatever amount they want! The increase of immigrants moving into Calgary is worsening the housing crisis and the government has no control over this! Transit system is very weak for a fastest growing city like Calgary, not enough buses on the road which is allowing car dealers to sell cars on high prices on higher interest rate and banks and insurance companies are taking advantage of all these. Most employers in Calgary pay $17-$18 per hour maximum wage which is impossible for families to live on. Horrible time ahead for Albertans if govt. fails to take immediate action.

i rent a room. multi-people per room isn't preying on people, it's giving them a chance at not being bloody homeless. It's so damn expensive, and it's not going to change, this has become the only solution that isn't CRAWLING with bureaucratic red tape, And it sucks. Waiting for the other 2 roomates to finish bathroom routines in our shared bathroom... It SUCKS, and that's 3 people sharing 2 rooms, I can only imagine multiple to a room, but I DARE you to try to afford to live in toronto or vancouver while juggling student loans, while you still can't get a ruddy job in the industry you went to school for because it became saturated with laid-off senior staff.

Im 37 and i rent 1 bedroom , not how i thought life was going to go

As a landlord, I often encounter Indian students renting one room with several people, which is unacceptable to me. But I have seen many landlords renting one room to several people, so I guess these landlords must be Indians.

It's simple rent is higher than what you earn working. What's the point of working if you're always going to be short money at the end of each month? Even welfare is a better solution.

Should lave limits on rent per square ft and also hight how some places get away with selling places at so high rates for under development housing but only thing working class can afford

my kids and grandkids are living with me because they can't afford rent.....i bet immigrants will get housing before we do

Hello are you renting ?? Ahhh are you Indian and single??

Don’t come to New Zealand we can’t even house our own citizens here , rents are high and houses are few to rent , but we do need Teachers, Nurses , Police personnel and Doctors and qualified people will get jobs

Rents are the same as your monthly standard salary, hydro, phones, internet, transportation and food all added up to 2 persons salaries...so if you're single buy a tent

Unsuspecting new immigrants are generally unaware that the Canadian economy is mainly based on real estate, housing, and rent, and that to sustain it, Canadian profiteers need more and more people to come in. I bet most of them do not know that their presence in Canada only exacerbates inflation and thus making them and other working class people worse off.

Ive lived here 30 years and have never really liked it here but I pushed on. Toronto has become much more violent and rents have skyrocketed. It's not for the people anymore but I don't think it ever was. The people who live here know much more than the politicians who are ruining it.

My mom bought a estate property working at Safeway. I have 9 years of education working in healthcare and I can’t afford rent.

Good, too many immigrants are making housing unaffordable. Also I'm raising the rent by 50%

Sucks even more when your born here and houses are expensive and rent is so high that it makes it difficult to save for a house

stay away from my Alberta ????? there are no jobs or anywhere to rent ! We are FULL!

1. extreme racism\n2. very high house prices\n3. high rent\n4. no jobs, saturated job market\n5. stuck with your life

As someone just recently received PR, I dont want to apply citizenship. Not gonna rent forever. I'll just have my salary saved to buy a home somewhere else where the value of money is higher. Thank you Canada but, no Canada ?

i am earning 100k per Year which is considered a good income in Canada and still cannot pay my rent and other expenses and i am living in Calgary which considered cheap this is Reality, 100k lets break down 40k goes into tax and i got almost 5k per month now if i buy a 500k home which will b not a home just an Old apartment so my mortgage will b 4k per month ? so Dream is over

i work full time and i am still broken and rent...... i pay 39% of my income to tax, not including gst, carbon tax and other taxes.... i need money..... no matter how much i work , i end up getting the similar amount of money...

What’s amazing to me is an apartment that cost 500 dollars to rent only 20 years now costs 2000 or more dollars. The very same apartment no major changes or renovations just the ability of the owners and landlords to up the rent. In fact many apartments now sit empty in many major cities because no one can afford to pay that much for a shoe box size space.

The Canadian dream is driving for Uber eats and renting a small house with 10 family members.

This is good,house and rent prices will come down as demand decreases, and more room for the rest of us.

Thats right, come here to pay rent to feed the landload

I was born BC, Canada 40 years ago. In my 31 years of working, the minimum/general hourly wage has gone from $7 to $17/hour. In my 24 years of renting, a one bedroom apartment went from between $500-$600/month to $1700+/month if you're lucky. Most businesses make too little to pay a living wage and governments make too much off of people trying to get rid of questionably gained money to care about the lives/best interests of the average person.

Dont come to Alberta. Not enough jobs, rents are climbing at unprecedented speed

Come to Alberta lol cheap living but here's the kicker you'll be paid a lot less in your field of work . Oh and rent in Calgary is avg. $1800 per month + hydro try making that work on your $15 -$18 per hour job

New immigrants here. Making around 100000 CAD per year - it seems there are no perspectives for the future. Half of the income goes to rent and .. that's it, the dead end. It just doesn't make any sence

It's crazy rent is a mortgage

Rent cost + inflation and no raise is doing me in. I have to work extra, and I still can't make ends meet. It feels a bit hopeless at the moment...

so you all haters think that when the canadians move out of canada , that suddenly , your rent prices just drop , no they stay they same , its only haters who are always broke and have no money from the first day .....\n\nAll i see here is bunch of haters who dont like immigrants and blame the immigrants for the high prices the same haters who say the immigrants steal there jobs while so called lazy canadians who refuse to do all low minimum wage jobs already in canada .

The reality is the cost of living in Canada is high and owning a home is a pipe dream. Be prepared to rent for your lifetime.

Every country that pushes growth with mass immigration is doomed to fail. Ai will kill 1.6 billion jobs in the next 3 years its already hitting Banking Warehousing Administration and Retail Shopping. Mass immigration also lowers wages for the majority and raises rents and property prices killing peoples ambition and desire to work hard. Sweden is now a death zone France is on the verge of revolution and the UK is now an utter basket case. The wealthy are getting out of all the wests countries as mass immigration is a net loss with high crime rates and declining services. The countries that will be successful in this age of Ai will be those with small highly educated populations and none of those are in the west.

It's for vote for certain party and WEF world diversification policy ....and to boost housing and renting prices

Indians built bogus ( Tourism,Finance,Marketing schools)in Canada.Then they recruit students from India, and stay or rent rooms with Indian families . The cycle continues.

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On top of all this renting and work stuff, Indian folk have also made it clear they ONLY hire indian others or rent to indian people.\n\nWhich is what we call racism in Canada.

homeownership isn't even in the realm of reality, renting now is a dream. Rent is astronomical if you can even find a place.

Wait what? The average person in Toronto spends 120% of their income on rent? ?. What kind of magic math is that bro? You just lost 100% of your credibility with that one ✌️.

Liberals destroyed Canada and over flooded the system. The system is a scam and you will be in debt for a very long time and high cost and rent is out of control.

The new comers who stay are exploited. Born Canadian’s are shut out of jobs and all these people are maintaining the high real-estate / rent market. Goodbye new immigrants, you made the right decision. As a born Canadian, I want to join you soon

How do you spend 120% of your income on rent. That’s impossible unless the average person is bleeding cash. I feel like it’s closer to 50% which is still awful, but your stat makes no sense.

I'm 65 now I get a pension I'm now in Puerto Vallarta Mexico it is the best place in Mexico I pay $700 a month for rent for a one-bedroom I'm happy ?️❤?️

This video is 100% true.. where I live the majority of immigrants are Indian. I have nothing against them seeking better lives but in my opinion they need to do better screening. In my building alone there are 3 units, 2 of which are rented by Indian students. One is 4 bedroom 2 bath and other is 3 bedroom 1 bath there are no joke 16 people in both. I’ve made friends with multiple of them and they had no issue telling me they came here to work and live and barely attended any classes. If this keeps up we are in big trouble.

Struggling to find a place to live, struggling to get a job, struggling to eat, struggling to live, we cant afford outsiders right now but were taking them in anyway and theyre buying the houses and only renting and selling to their own theyre taking over jobs and only hiring their own leaving so many born canadians homeless and desperate and what does the government do? Offer people MAID because they'd rather kill us then fix the problems

I live in Montreal and came from Mexico in 2012... I understand that a lot of people like myself want to come to Canada looking for a better life... But the government only wants increasing numbers of immigrants each year to keep the real estate bubble no matter the cost.\nI think inevitably migration will be reduced to a fraction because is not sustainable and eventually AI will start to replace withe collar workers that have to pay rent or a mortgage at that point the real estate bubble would collapse