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Comes.around go a round...the west spent centuries colonizing other taking ressources and building theirs beautiful nations then like it was not enougg they establish sistema war sistema political sistema to make the third courntries lides very bad now they need more ressources só they Open border as partnership but their tour chilrldren dont understand the deal behind now the karma is happening

This has been a problem for 40 years and the reason where hearing about it now is black rock a hedge fund wants to buy up Single family homes/condos and cannot mass rent without changes to the landlord and tenant board. It is the reason the interest rate is currently so high, push people to bankruptcies and buy up the bankruptcies. But honestly if the government is subsiding the building of condos, the infrastructure that supports them, then hands out tax money to builders, gears immigration policy to increase demand then hands out trillions in loans though the CMCH and other programs and most people don't have more than 5 to 15 percent down and then they rent the place out; is it really their place to complain about a tenant. After all their ownership is basically subsidiesd completely by the government and the banking system, they are in effect a minority stake holder in a government banking scam.

Again another political regime telling the people what they need is not what the people want. If they are saying it’s down to not having houses, build the houses first.

This is not a new problem. It's been building for years. First saw it living in Toronto over 30 years ago....

I'm just curious as big as their countries are why don't they develop their own countries with the resources that they have instead of coming to the West? I'm just saying build up your own country's first ,please don't say we have gangs, drugs and corrupt government ?

There is a problem, solution is:\n1. Lower numbers of immigrants for the next 3-5 years\n2. Build more houses/units\n3. Increase minimum salaries and salaries in general \n4. Encourage Canadians to have more children

Worried, my kids will also have to apply 1000 applications to get a job. Who knows may be more than 1000. Build canada (business, job) before importing more refugee, asylum seekers, and through Express entry, PNP, Pilot program.

You can't build an economy through population growth when the government decides to bring in 3% of the population per year in low skill, temporary students and workers to help inefficient businesses suppress wages for low skill work.\nYou can't build housing when the fees and taxes on each new build are equivalent to 30 years of property taxes. \nYou can't build housing when zoning only makes highrises with 400-500 sqft units financially viable, which are then bought by wealthy homeowners to rent out for profit. \n\nThese policies are designed to benefit wealthy incumbents (mostly boomers and seniors) and are targeted to transfer labour and income from younger people and new entrants (immigrants) to the wealthiest people at the top. \n\nThe people who benefit represent a large voting bloc and most politicians are from this class of people who are making out like bandits. \n\nThis is why nothing is changing.

if we dont have enough homes, and too many poeple imagrating, why not get the immagrants to build more homes?

Country of 40 Million can't build enough houses for their own population. Government brings in 1 Million more and subsidizes their housing costs. ?Can't figure out why people would be against that.

We don’t have accommodations for new immigrants, please build more houses before allowing people to come to Canada ?

Build MORE HOUSING!

Scapegoating immigrants for the fact that there are not enough homes. Deal with the problem directly! Get politicians to BUILD MORE HOMES AND CHANGE INFRASTRUCTURE. Slow down immigration. But Don’t scapegoat the people that are already here.

@johndoe3632 You are right in a functional system this is how it works. Now the system failed and you need to play the hand you have been dealt. There's an abundance of labour better put them work. Idle hands are the work of the devil. The military can train them and build a force to fix the mess in their country instead of creating a disaster here

Biggest question is... Has the Canadian ever been the native, the same goes to the UK and US. So what as long as you're white you're not an immigrant.. Give me a break. If those people come legally and immensely help your economic to build the nation I don't see where's the wrong.

I am English and when in the sixties I wanted to live in B C Canada I had to go to the Canadian Embassy in London with my husband for an interview….How I loved it, My husband went first and got a job straight away and i went six weeks later …My son and grandchildren are Canadian but sadly none now live in Canada…….Trudeau has ruined your wonderful country and the influx of so called migrants has destroyed it ..We now in England are overflowing with people flooding this country that have no business being here ..Why don’t they stay in their own country and build it up instead of coming to ours and dragging it down to the cutter….

Immigration is always a short cut to avoid tackling the right problem. Canada is a country of many opportunities. My observation is that people are not making effort to work harder, too many regulations also limit companies to make great innovation that brings wealth here. Immigrants who come to Canada have an enormous amount of energy to build the country but the system always puts aside and cannot unlock their full potential. Just my observation only.

Scapegoating? It's simple supply and demand, and nothing can change it. Socialism won't fix it, importing impoverished people won't fix it, legislation won't fix it. You have to attract people with the proper skillsets to make the country and city better. Having a booming population and no room to grow doesn't do that. The California Bay Area and Los Angeles area has already seen the problems this causes, companies and skilled workers are moving to places that they can afford to live and build companies. With more people comes less opportunities, Canada needs to learn from the mistakes of others. Do not take everyone, take those who want a better life but can also give back to the country.

Need to build more affordable housing.

No one explains why government housing can solve the housing crisis, but not private housing. The money the government can spend in building apartments is very limited unless we raise taxes or borrow large amount of debt.

Canadas asset is its land. Dont build to accommodate.

As an immigrant who builds homes, I'm confused.

Legal immigration is great but slowly and the cream of the crop who want to become citizens will BUILD a Better society But Leftist Democrats want immigration for power not the people so they want millions to rush the border

The rich are responsible for this mess yet again, and its in their best interest to build a narrative that deflects it onto the “other”, the darker skinned immigrants

Need to build more housing. Scarcity pitting people against each other to appease baby boomers.

If these people are so productive, shouldn't they stay in their own country and build that up?

Immigrants come from ALL countries. So it's not one group over another. This isn't about race. I know, very hard for the Left to grasp that concept. It's about integration. About our own Canadian culture. Our own Canadian values. Brampton Ontario, Surrey BC, Richmond Hill BC, Markham Ontario and so on. When new immigrants are told they don't have to integrate into Canadian culture, learn our languages English or French, share our Canadian values, or wave our Canadian flag. But instead, they are allowed to build their own mini countries within our Canadian borders, then Canadians are slowly losing Canada. One city at a time.

They eat your foods,more schooling less rooms for native students,more traffic jams,more pollution more people drive up housing cost,more homeless supply and demand,lower labor cost,bad for middle class,cut more trees to build more houses,bad for climate changes not to mention more crime rate,medical costs.

This is another one of those IMPLIED narratives. It's CONSTANTLY pretended it comes out of NOWHERE. When it's been VERY OBVIOUS and BUILDING UP for 20 years. You've got to be slightly mentally damaged or neurotic to NOT realise this.

110k thousand people a month. We are building 250k houses a year. Math is hard, I get it. But this isn’t a hard problem. Stop letting in so many people, or start the largest series of construction Canada and possibly the world has ever seen. Not just homes, but schools, roads, grocery stores, electric plants, water purification plants, sewers. \n\nPick one of those paths. Those are the only options don’t don’t collapse our country…

The Trudeau Liberals opened our borders without having the housing or jobs infrastructure in place. Trudeau has destroyed our economy and increased out taxes to the point that new home construction has ground to a halt.\n\nTrudeau has declared that he'll build enough homes in the next few years to resolve the problem. Unfortunately, the rate of new home construction that he's declared calculates out to one new home completed every minute (24 hours a day) for the next ten years. We don't have the contractors, builders, or workers to accomplish this. We don't have a plan for this. Trudeau constantly declares his wild, pie in the sky promises without a step by step plan.

There are dying towns all over Canada with vacant buildings / houses. People for whatever reason only want to live in the big cities that’s the problem.

Why does no Arab country want them?\nIs Palestinians want to live in peace, safety and security, WHY DID HAMAS SO BRUTALLY ATTACK ISRAELI CIVILIANS??\n\nThey’ve had enough aid over the years to\nturn Gaza into an international resort destination but they let Hamas, use to aid to build up munitions and dig tunnels all through Gaza!!

Well this is happening in the whole world !\n\nUncontrolled mass influx of wealthy people and foreign investment has triggered the housing crisis we are facing.\n\nIt is not only immigrants but wealthy international students too, coming with whole families and able to pay whatever it takes to rent the the house they want. \n\nThey have inflated rents to the point that young Canadians can no longer fulfill their dream of owning a house as their parents did.\n\nThe first step is to turn off the immigration flow and start building bungalows, which people can afford to buy, as was done in the post-war period.\n\nNo more bullding luxury condos or townhouses. Young Canadians need something affordable to be able to leave their parents' homes.

Please, blame the govt. I don’t think citizens or immigrants are to blame. Finding stable work in Canada is a challenge these days even for permanent residents/new citizens. No guarantee of work even after acing an interview and building skills as needed. At this point I feel like immigrants are just tax paying scapegoats, who are used by the government and hated by local people. This is not real inclusiveness. Govt must give priority to their citizens and encourage immigration if there are real opportunities to offer. Everyone needs work and stability inorder to live a civilized and stable life. Calling loads and loads here to benefit the economy and politicians just be called third world trash isn’t fair.

A tenant of mine - a social worker - shifted a homeless man into an empty apartment in my house without asking for a permit. I offered him to shelter the homeless man as a guest within his rented apartment, yet this he did not want. Typical socialist: placing the rotten egg in the nest of others to deal with. I told him, if he does this again, then eviction time comes.\n\nThere is a way to get the above lady out. No, I am not talking about hitmen from the dark web. What I mean is, get the government agencies involved by claiming she endangers hygienic conditions within the building. There is always some evidence for that, if not then be creative and shift the blame.

Capitalism is to blame, as it requires a housing shortage for higher profits. The govt needs to build homes.

If there is not enough housing, just build more. What's the big deal? I simply don't understand.

It is totally about too much population and a failed idea of exponential growth ,more and more people is a joke on us Canadians that does not work for anyone except bankers .We have to stop further immigration ,get it together and build .there is no more room in zToronto or Vancouver .send the immigrants to Regina and Saskatoon where the is room and like my Ukrainian grandparents were send in the 1930 to develop the land and serve a purpose to Canadas further development and future .The current immigration policies are a failed joke ,on us .

You *must* build your way out of this. No more NIMBYs, no more redtape, no more luxury apts. Build, build, build. Straight up, high density, on transit corridors. You must have the immigrants or Canada will turn into Japan with 1 worker supporting 10 people in their 80s who die alone.

now that's idiocy at the highest level. who in their right mind is gonna want to build for rent with such a law in place yet they complain of lack of housing, how anymore stupid can this be.

People complain about doctors leaving to the States for more money. But reality is, there is no job opening for new specialists finishing up fellowship. So they are pushed around diff hospital as part timer and they end up leaving. Family doctors are also pushed to become a hospitalists or to just become surgery assistant to avoid paperworks and fees that follow being family doctors. Our healthcare is becoming useless because our government is not grasping the reality.\n\nWe need more highways, a real metro system for to support its growing population with integrated infrastructure. If we need to construct more housing, make it possible for architects to build faster and make it easier to become an architect here too. What is wrong with our roads? Gardiner is being fixed and I hope not for 10years. \n\nThis government legalized drugs for taxation, but cannot control harder drugs invading our cities. Our parks are filled with needles...\n\nNow I am in the process of dual citizenship to move out while I retire. Because I dont want to be sick and wait for 10-20hours in the ER.

canada is big start building up west north little colder so what so much land immigrants or not

People immigrate to earn in dollars . Even if it’s a little savings in dollars one can build wealth with it in India . That’s a fact . It can be any dollar .

Wow really, no homes, price of house rise due to shortages. Not enough building.

We can have immigration if you can build the infrastructure. Why do we not have the infrastructure? Because of the liberals. What's wrong with pausing immigration until you can build the infrastructure?

I like multiculturalism and this country is founded on immigration. But we need to put cap on each country when receiving them so to maintain the balance of good mix.\n\nI get bothered why this guy statistically divide white vs others. In the end this land belongs to the indigenous people none of us. \n\nAnyways, most of my friends from Western Europe, Japan, Korea and Singapore - first world nations, have already moved back after couple of years of living here. Aa a dual citizen myself, I plan on retiring in my other country.\n\nThis country has to realize if they receive massive influx of people- they need to invest and build more infrastructure. Look at Gardiner- it's constantly on construction mode. Hire more surgeons and make better family doctor system. This government only legalized marijuana and brought more problems. We used to live near Trinity bellwood and the park is now filled with used needles. \n\nAs for homelessness, it's always been there and it got worse during economic depression (2008 mortgage crisis) and current prime rate/inflation situation. Even if you study stats from government subsidized housing, most immigrants work and get out of help but the old immigrants (whites) usually don't flip out of the situation for generations. So there is no reason to tie and blame the Indians for our old problem of homeless population. Stay on point and stop tying it down with non-related issues.

Build a wall!!!

Lesson: build a retirement investment portfolio and don’t rely on a rental income for retirement. If this gentleman had been saving those pennies into index fund ETFs, he’d have a boat load of money to withdraw from for retirement!

Build more prisons.\nThat's free labor..\n\nOur 13 amendment states\nSlavery is illegal except for felons.\n They trying to get that 15k food stamps and 5k cash.\nWhen i cant pay my bills.\nWTF \nWe are so corrupt.\nI guess only law breakers are the ones who win.