After nearly a decade of Justin Trudeau holding power supported by the NDP, it is revealed that home ownership in Toronto and Vancouver is now more unaffordable than New York, Miami or L.A.
“Canada’s housing prices have risen faster than any other country in the G7 since Justin Trudeau took office,” said federal Conservatives in a recent statement.
A Winnipeg shelter says it’s seeing a rising number of seniors accessing its services, with some experiencing homelessness for the first time.
“A lot of them are simply being priced out of life, for a lack of a better term,” said Darren Nodrick, the director of development at Siloam Mission in Winnipeg. “Increased cost in rent as well as food is just too much.
“Some folks that are accessing our drop-in are coming for meals because they’re having to choose between rent and/or food.”
Trudeau and all his LPC members are heartless lying scumbags.
Downtown Kitchener Ontario. Anyone remember growing up in Canada and seeing anything like this? How about prior to 2015? Trudeau has failed Canadians & Canada in immeasurable ways. pic.twitter.com/txlwhLCWqY
— Ryan Gerritsen (@ryangerritsen) November 29, 2024
One residential construction worker would have to produce nearly three-quarters of a home each year to meet the federal government’s 2031 housing goal, a number of homes-per-worker nearly two-times higher than today’s average, given major challenges around innovation and supply chains.
Last April, the Trudeau government announced its new housing plan, which included the promise of 3.87 million new homes by 2031.
As cities across North America grapple with homelessness, one Canadian city has taken a different approach by regulating tent encampments instead of banning them, as it tries to tackle what one official calls the issue “of the decade”.
Andrew Goodsell has called his small orange tent on a grassy patch in downtown Halifax home for almost a year.
In late October, on a park bench outside his makeshift dwelling, the 38-year-old described life at the homeless encampment where he lives with about a dozen or so others as “depressing”.
Honest but otherwise known as washing your hands of it.
There are children playing in Allan Gardens — a pleasant sight that had long disappeared from view.
Moms and nannies pushing prams without fear of a looming menace or having to sidestep needles underfoot. No annoying music assaults the eardrums from boomboxes. Nobody cooking meth or blatantly consuming a host of street drugs.
Dogs are being walked — and not the curs kept as pets by homeless people who may not have had a single other source of companionship in their hardscrabble lives.
The homeless are shifted elsewhere because they are a political asset to the likes of Chow.
They’ll crow about this success today and be demanding more funding a week later.
Rinse and repeat.
A chill wind is blowing across Ontario.
As winter looms, homeless people are hunkering down in tent encampments. With the ground hardening under them in public parks, rival political camps are digging in for a fight.
So politicized is this issue that we cannot even agree on how to describe the people or decide on a policy. Activists insist that people in need are not the homeless but the unhoused, or “people experiencing homelessness” — a phoney war preoccupied with terminology over policy.
Amid Canada’s ongoing housing crisis, the Department of Immigration is advising new arrivals to consider temporary accommodations like Airbnbs or, if necessary, shelters, until they secure a more permanent place to live.
Blacklock’s Reporter says this guidance appears in a recent Welcome to Canada guide, published in multiple languages, including Arabic, Dari, Haitian Creole, and Spanish, to assist newcomers navigating Canada’s housing landscape.
Carl Gomes was immediately fearful when his landlord put his property up for sale.
”(The landlord) put the property on the market in July and said everyone needed to leave by August,” Gomes said of the Little Portugal rooming house that is home to 14 people in six rooms.
Gomes quickly sought legal help. As soon as he told his landlord he was consulting a lawyer to make sure due process was followed, he said his landlord called and said, “he would come to my room and throw my wife’s and my belongings out on the street.”
Trudeau needs to be jailed.
Canada’s parliamentary budget officer says the federal government is overestimating the impact its new immigration plan will have on the country’s housing shortage.
In October the Liberal government announced it was cutting the number of permanent residents allowed into the country between 2025 and 2027.
A dozen Ontario mayors are asking Premier Doug Ford to use the Constitution’s notwithstanding clause to give authorities and police more power to break up homeless encampments and force more people into mandatory drug and mental-health treatment.
The demand, made in a letter dated Thursday, was signed by Barrie Mayor Alex Nuttall and Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown, both of whom have championed the idea of mandatory treatment in recent weeks, as well as Mayor Paul Lefebvre of Sudbury and Mayor Drew Dilkens of Windsor. But absent are signatures from the mayors of the province’s largest cities: Toronto, Ottawa and Mississauga.
And where is Chairman Chow?
OTTAWA – Canada’s home ownership crisis is likely to worsen over the next few years as proposed project sales languish at historically low levels, stalling the funding needed for construction, half a dozen economists and realtors told Reuters.
The sale of these proposed projects, comprising an array of one- or two-bedroom condominiums in major hubs like Toronto, is commonly called pre-construction sales, and a bulk of these properties are usually bought by investors to rent out.
Thank Justin for this mess.
The Conservatives promised buyers of newly built homes that they’d save thousands of dollars on their mortgage payments. The Liberals complained the Tory plan would cut funding for municipalities.
One of these parties understands who votes. The other doesn’t seem to.
It’s pretty clear the key political issue in Canada is affordability. The housing crisis is a big, looming, social problem but a 34-year-old who can’t even think about buying a house understands it in terms of dollars.
On a strip of grass dividing a busy east-end Montreal thoroughfare from a block of residences in the Hochelaga-Maisonneuve district stand about two dozen tents, a reflection of a housing market that can’t provide enough affordable homes.
If this is to be the start of a new Toronto tradition, it’s a brutal one. For the second year in a row, the City of Toronto unveiled its winter homeless shelter plan by acknowledging the insufficiency of the measures it plans to take. That’s a depressing press conference: Here’s the plan! It ain’t going to work!
It looks like planning for failure — when the stakes are whether people freeze on the street or not — but, believe it or not, as I wrote last year, it is progress. The old annual tradition involved failing to draw up a proper plan at all and then being shocked when there wasn’t enough space in the shelters, and then vowing to do better next year when people froze to death, and then promptly forgetting about it when it came time to set budgets.
The homeless situation will always get worse with leftists in charge. Chow and Trudeau are a perfect match
The Bank of Canada is walking a tight rope as they rapidly cut the key interest rate to salvage the country’s sluggish economy while risking a drastic run-up in real estate demand and pricing.
The central bank announced Wednesday it’s cutting its key overnight interest rate by 50 basis points — a half percentage point. That brings the overnight rate to 3.75 per cent.
