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Need a place where people who don't want to contribute to society can be allowed to live in peace with their own space to build their own homestead style life. Then you might see ideas and invention again instead of tent cities with garbage

Why can't we build faster? China has whole metropolises sitting vacant.

My son had to leave THAT very building because rent went from $3600 to $6500 and they only had 3 months notice

I'm an indian immigrant to Canada myself, my family moved here in the 00s. We worked hard to integrate and build a new life for ourselves here. The new migrants are a disgrace and an embarrassment. I hope the govt does something to address this soon, they're turning canada into a slum

The government is who makes it too expensive for developers to build cheap housing. If they decreased regulations, the free market would do the rest.

Immigration is not the problem but the uncontrolled and unchecked immigration is.\n\nQuality of immigrants coming in Canada should be concern. If you import Uber drivers and doordash delivery boys not engineers and doctors who can build the nation don’t expect to grow.

I lived in this building.

I'm a Canadian citizen. And I think it's the time when Canadian & US governments must think to build a border wall on the Northern border. I hate these illegal Aliens sneaking in Canada & then in the US. Offcours these illegal immigrants are being a reason for damaging the local labor market wages. And are continuous burden on Both countries economy & tax payers. I see our governments look extremely helpless in dealing with this growing issue. I wish Donald Trump would become the US next president. No doubt he will adapt to the serious measures to stop these illegal buggers.

Before Ford took office, cases were heard before the Landlord Tenant Board in a matter of weeks. Now there is a backlog of months and Ford is allowing it to happen. During the pandemic, Ford told tenants that they didn’t have to pay rent. Many landlords are exiting the rental market; thus contributing to the shortage of rental units. Ford asked developers to build more in an effort to alleviate the shortage. Over 70% of condo units are bought by mom and pop investors, many of whom are gun shy after hearing horror stories about the LTB. Without the lion share of investor buyers, developers are reluctant to build more condos. The Ford government has no clue.

Sametime pls control the rent in apartment and building price tooo..Rental should be controlled in control board..Govt should control that also?

and we are supposed to grin and bear it. Get real this is why we want our country back. Try building a Christian Church in their country and see what happens.

bro thought being a landlord is a money farm. the girl is in the wrong for sure but we need her side of the story to fully understand the situation. perhaps she's doing what my friend had to just to finally get the attention from the landlord to solve issues in the building. my friend had to go 8 months not paying his rent (keeping that money separately to please lawyers) just so a landlord would get in contact with him about his apartment ceiling caving in forcing the dudes family to live out of their living room. this landlord just wants to retire, i bet the building has major issues thats being ignored.

I hope this isn't one of the migrants let in , how disappointing . If the bank took the building back for lack of payment I bet they could get this person out right away . No wonder our system is failing !

You can use those people to build THE housing they need... But wait that's against the benefit of house owners. and who are they? the same people who open the doors. There's jobs for all. It's not about immigration.

These days, every country blames their pre-existing problems on immigrants (easy to do). The realtor girl in the video clearly explained why housing is expensive, because it's expensive to build. Is that the fault of immigrants? No! In fact Immigrants should technically bring the cost 'DOWN' due to 'cheap labour'. Poor infrastructure, govt corruption and corporate greed are not problems created by immigrants.

Just build more houses using more government funds and put a ceiling price for the houses to stop it from increasing

Maybe a solution would be to build some military bases along the border where there are no Legal border crossings

Rental cost up 40% over *two years* is an insane rate of change. Yet, most countries see much of the same problems now, HCOL is an issue everywhere. So let's build, efficiently and pleasantly.

The point is free market doesn't regulate housing crisis. The government doesn't provide jobs in building housing. Canada is nothing but vast lands, that means enough place to build housing. Come on.

Canda is the biggest country why gov not building infrastructure houses...every country has rasist losser don't have skills and education for jobs

To sum it up: It is gross mismanagement on the Canadian government's part by not building enough housing but pouring down millions of immigrants.

Our nations are our homes. Our borders are the national equivalent of the walls and doors of our houses. We, our parents and grandparents have worked hard to make our nation/homes comfortable for our children and our children's children, who are, oddly enough, of the same race as ourselves. Power stations, water and power distribution networks, sewerage, buildings, mines and farms etc. did not fall from the sky.\n\nBurglars want better lives. That is why they go into other people's homes to get a share of the stuff that the residents have worked had to pay for. Modern migrants are like burglars. Our governments are giving our homes away to burglars.

I always thought we should pay Mexicans to stay in Mexico and make Mexico great. Instead of us paying for everything under the sun for them in dollars, we could have paid them in pesos to build housing, rec centers, community centers, churches, hospitals, roads, etc .. .. I'm all for helping people, and being charitable. I don't mind helping people but for God's sake we don't spend 80 million on a city budget for helping the homeless. Yet we roll out the red carpet for those who aren't here legally. You citizen Joe/Jane in America have to follow the rules, yet groups, orhers, etc DON'T?!? BS.

What…. A…. Shame. No it’s not right she doesn’t pay rent, but let’s look at the other side of the coin here. You know for a fact this clown owns about 12 more condos in the same building, all being financed from India and all the money headed back to India. It’s pretty hard to feel bad for landlords, who are nothing more than money launderers.

THIS IS DISGUSTING WHAT THIS ADMINISTRATION HAS INSTIGATED BY PROMISING SO MANY BENEFITS IF YOU INVADE OUR AMERICAN BORDERS FROM AROUND THE WORLD. WHEN OUR OWN VETERANS ARE LIVING IN THE STREETS HOMELESS AND WITH P.T.S.D.!-- ENTIRE FAMILIES ARE HOMELESS FROM SKY HIGH RENTALS THEY CAN NOT AFFORD A ROOF OVER THERE FAMILIES HEAD DO OVERPRICED FOR PROFIT. THESE NORMAL FAMILIES HAVE TOLERATE LIVING IN THE STREETS WITH PEOPLE WITH DRUG AND CRIME ADDICTION DO TO MENTAL ILLNESS FROM OVER PRESCRIBING OPIATE PAINKILLERS FROM THE PHARMACIST AND MEDICAL BOARD FOR PROFIT. THIS ADMINISTRATION REGULATES THE POLICE DEPARTMENTS, BORDER PATROL TO ENFORCE AMERICAN WRITTEN JUDICIAL LAWS. WHAT A CIRCUS AND WORLD WIDE EMBARRASSMENT TO OUR ANCESTORS BOTH NATIVE AND SETTLERS WHO SUFFERED AND ALL HAD LOSSES ONE WAY OR ANOTHER. BUT AMERICA WAS BUILT ON THOSE HISTORICAL EVENTS. WHAT AN INSULT TO ALL OUR ANCESTORS WHO SUFFERED TO BUILD A COUNTRY AND A BETTER FUTURE FOR IT'S LAW ABIDING CITIZENS.?

Why is it just housing which is discussed ?along with a massive population? Increase comes a massive need for increased infrastructure… Hospitals and schools and highways… You can’t just build the houses… To say so. It’s grossly irresponsible and will lead to disastrous consequences as one can see in the Third World country.

Can they only bring in immigrants who know how to build homes.

Migration is not the problem. The problem is those military age men with those fancy degrees who are cowards and run away instead of building their country and make it strong, they rather get everything for free from Europe who also refuse to adapt to new culture and follow the law of the land and want Europeans to submit to them. Europe needs to send them to prison. Rather take good people who will benefit Europe with culture and knowledge.

I was watching Flight Radar. I clicked on a Random flight coming to Toronto Pearson. It was Air India, It was supposed to land just across the lake in USA. It had been diverted. I wonder if it was diverted intentionally so all of them could stay in Canada? We build 200K homes a year, we bring in more than 500K people/year. U Can't get a job, all places are hiring newcomers cuz the Gov offers them subsidies to help pay their wages. Meanwhile, Canadians end up homeless.

Why don't they build up their countries??

The problem is that people don’t understand that Canada is a federation. There needs to be coordination between the federal government and the provinces. Canada lets people in, provinces provide the services. Canada doesn’t build housing, provinces and municipalities do. Canada doesn’t build schools. Canada doesn’t build hospitals. This is a federation and until people understand the country they live in, they will never solve all the challenges ahead. Just like Quebec, all provinces should negotiate with the federal government to provide immigration permits according to their needs. The more Ottawa centralises everything, the bigger the problem will become.

Everyone os blaming immigration but nobody is talking about building more business, employment and bringing competition in Market.

The First Americans were pushed off lands and given Casinos Europeans were the first illegals acting like they didn't cross a whole ocean to get here and if they do build a wall its not to keep people out but to keep you in but nobody's worried about a National debt that no one will be around to see get paid off America it's always someone else to blame one side to every story regardless if it's the truth or not

Its not scapegoating immi-grants. We simply just cant build as fast as immigration is going on in the west. Even if we could build as fast, do we really want to become overpopulated countries with less nature?

Nevermind the scapegoating, only 2 things can get us out of this, less people coming in and more housing. So the governement feel the pressure to build more and the people feel the pressure to leave.

Terrible take. Shame on you. Why don’t you do research before you frame that the main issue is immigrants. You make zero mention about how developers and investment owners are given useless perimeters about what to build (they’re mostly all building unaffordable luxury condos, even before materials and labour were so high) and zero restrictions on shockingly greedy rental pricing. Airbnbs are also still a problem even with revised rules. The issue is with our City Halls and their ineptitude. Stoking a fire about this BS is only going to bring more violence on immigrants so I hope you’re willing to be accountable for that.

You'd think that with all these immigrants you'd have quite a labor force to build the needed houses, but still they are not building enough housing. Maybe that's not the immigrants' fault, maybe keeping a small housing supply benefits people in power.

What ever happened to good ol fashioned revolutions? I'll support these people building their nations up before I'll support them coming here illegally.

The solution is to build more housing. That includes easing up zoning requirements so that it is legal to build more densely, and subsidizing construction costs for developers.

It is not the immigrate the problem, it is a political problem trying to do too much too fast. The Federal government needs to understand the capacity of their own country and how to build more infrastructure and do we have the money to do it.

We need to learn how to build new liveable cities and expand existing ones. And we need to do so fast. Suburbs and car-centric urban development is not the solution.

Have Canadians ever considered that building more middle density housing and not caring about property values would fix most of this?

Problem isn’t immigration it’s who we immigrate. We don’t need all university students, we need people who come from similar countries who can use their hands and can build things and have clean backgrounds.

Build the north WALL

It takes 18-25 to build a mid rise condo, 9 month a roll of townhouse. We’ve been talking about housing crisis for years. Why don’t the additional labours been hired to build more houses?

Cherry on top are the income taxes. Cost of living is ridiculous expensive because not much is left in the bank after the government takes their part. I was able to build some wealth in Canada and left as soon I could. Being taxed 53% to live next to an injection site? Waiting MONTHS for healthcare? Not able to afford the expensive condos because the government took me half of my money? No thanks. \nLook at the US. Cost of living is still high these days but way more is left in your wallet. Canada doesn’t want anyone to build wealth. The system is really messed up. They want poor immigrants earning minimum wage in bad conditions.

Build a new city.

Canada is huge but only has handful of cities that offer employment opportunities, if govt wants to continue immigration they have to build new cities and cheap houses.

It's bizzare how people think of housing as a right like water. Have they ever done the work of building a house? Could they? It's quite the ask of other people to call it your right.

Get the Chinese who are master builders in to build, in no time they will build a million housing for Canada right