this post was submitted on 10 Dec 2025
89 points (100.0% liked)

Canada

10808 readers
323 users here now

What's going on Canada?



Related Communities


🍁 Meta


🗺️ Provinces / Territories


🏙️ Cities / Local Communities

Sorted alphabetically by city name.


🏒 SportsHockey

Football (NFL): incomplete

Football (CFL): incomplete

Baseball

Basketball

Soccer


💻 Schools / Universities

Sorted by province, then by total full-time enrolment.


💵 Finance, Shopping, Sales


🗣️ Politics


🍁 Social / Culture


Rules

  1. Keep the original title when submitting an article. You can put your own commentary in the body of the post or in the comment section.

Reminder that the rules for lemmy.ca also apply here. See the sidebar on the homepage: lemmy.ca


founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Canada’s political and media class has spent years chasing convenient villains to blame for the housing crisis, pointing the finger at foreign buyers, immigrants, supply shortages, zoning rules, or an overheated market.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] radiofreebc@lemmy.world 44 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

Every MP and MLA is a real estate investor and that's what is driving all of this madness. A home used to be a place for your family to live, for generations. Now, it's a quarterly, profit-driven investment.

Homes should be homes, not speculation.

[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'll vote for you if this is your platform!

[–] velindora@lemmy.cafe 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Well shit if we are pitching platforms, I’d like a chance to run

[–] Typotyper@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Maybe no one will vote for you. You haven't said anything to differentiate yourself from the current group of selfish opportunistic politicians we have.

[–] velindora@lemmy.cafe 1 points 3 weeks ago

Well, free mental healthcare is at the top of my list

[–] orioler25@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 weeks ago

This is not a new thing, access to housing has always been a fundamental mechanism of control in settlers colonial states. This was only recognised as a real problem once it affected privileged groups who have experienced enough generational wealth to normalize homeownership.

You're right, most representatives who make our decisions on housing happen to be members of a privileged class which is actively invested in profiting off that control. It does not end at housing, the exact problem with reform in a capitalist system is the link between privilege and material wealth ensures that the interests of capital remain paramount in society.

[–] Sunshine@piefed.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

I would say most instead of “all”