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It’s because of the mass immigration that Canadians can’t afford homes.

If u can afford to move ur already doing better than most Canadians

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.

I’d laugh if all immigrants left . Housing market would crash ! Construction would come to a standstill still buildings & projects abandoned .. Suddenly housing is affordable for those who are still employed . Careful what you wish for your job may depend on new comers & you don’t even know it ?

Cost of housing is high everywhere. It takes time to have anything good established. Sharing rooms to cut costs and save until you can afford your own house.

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

Born and raised here and live cheque to cheque...id leave if i could afford to.

im really not trying to be an *sshole but im a canadian but god damn we got so many ppl taking our jobs and shit. we barely can afford or and even a find job. this needs to stop. again im really trying not to be a racist. but we helped enough. we gotta take care of our own

We are poorer now because we are paying for all this bullshyt through inflation, taxes, and exploitation fees added to affordable housing that belongs to our communities! They're trying to sell us spots in our own highschool at 5k just to apply. That highschool belongs to tax payers. Wtf?

Michigan. 4Hr drive from Toronto, affordable and beautiful.

If you are an international student in Canada you can afford to provide for yourself the tuition and other expenses that should be, you don't even have to work because you are studying in my opinion.\nOtherwise if you have another intention or pathway in your mind, go home and apply from there and if you pass you are welcome here.

People having unrealistic expectations shiyld look back to earlier generations who lived in n sod huts until they could afford more.

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

use to work 8 hours a day here and i was able to afford life, in now working 10-12 hour shifts and i hardly afford bills, i don’t even know what a vacation is , my only vacation i ever had in this Country was in 2015 when i went to mexico for a week. it’s just work work pay bills and work , that’s how most people live in this Country, it’s almost better not work in canada and make 8-10 kids and live of those benefits ..:: it’s what most immigrants do at least they have time for themselves

Ah where do I even start? I paid $60k tax last year, no family doctor, can't afford a townhouse, and have to pay $3000 for a one bedroom small cramped apartment. \n\nNice done

Did she say 80% of Canadians can’t afford to buy a home? So then who is buying these homes?

Cant even afford to move out side tge city somewhere tgat would take an hour to drive from with no traffic is like 2 hours with traffic

lol. Most of us are born here and can’t afford it

lol. There isn't anything left that's affordable in any province. How did you even get convinced to come here, you should so whoever it was for fraud.

In the early 80’s a shoe salesman could afford a home and family. Now that same shoe salesman works for minimum wage and wages have not kept pace with the cost of living. Most are now living way below a living wage standard in most Canadians cities.

its crazy that i will only be able to afford a home when my parents god forbid pass

Housing costs are so savage right now and that's just one issue with them. I mean it when I say Most Canadians couldn't afford to have a house given to them... I make more than double the average income, and I'm just about ready to live in a camper. I actually see that being the future here, people will soon live on campsites. Financially it is the smartest move right now, it's just harsh due to the winters.

Even liberals can’t afford to be liberal anymore. News flash nothing is free.

We can’t afford a house here and we have to work 2 jobs and this is really frustrating.

Vancouver real-estate is essentially a money laundering operation for rich foreigners looking to stash their money somewhere. Protections were put in place a little to late back in 2016 with the foreign buyers tax. But honestly most of these foreigners can either be exempt from this tax with their citizenship loop hole (anchor baby) Or honestly they just pay the fine since they can afford it and just need to get their money out of the country they are coming from. Its quite dystopian because building more homes like the government keeps promising isn't going to solve the problem either. This is because its just going to add more to the volume of housing that the foreigners can buy up from the locals and adding more fuel to the problem. Immigrations Canada is lying to new comers. To top it off, BC just recently passed a law in 2024 where you can no longer build single family residences in the lower mainland area. WHERE are the families going to go then? Can anyone even afford a family anymore? Vancouverites like myself who were diligent and saved every penny are walking away from mortgages in droves because who wants to lock into a 30 year term amortization period where at rate plus prime your looking at 5.5%-7% where the bank makes more than double in interest from you. Over the course of 30 years you still lose because even if your property appreciates past double. Capital Gains will take into effect. Your loosing money no matter what! It truly is a nightmare designed to enslave you financially. This is simply wealth creation suicide. Came from immigrant parents in the 1990s, I slaved for 10 years during my twenties, didn't come from wealth, didn't party, didn't have fun, studied hard, and started a business and I still cant break into the Vancouver market. So I ended up just barely squeaking into the market in Abbotsford. Vancouverites as a whole are screwed. Time to pack up and move to Alberta I suppose. I will also preface by saying that most of BC is empty and that it would make sense to built outside of the Vancouver area as Vancouver has now basically become fiscally unlivable. It might make sense for the next government that come into power to decide to invest in building in other towns and cities around BC to incentivize Canadians to move.

Amazing! People with no degrees and not legally allowed to work in a country with a high cost of living are thinking are complaining about struggling because they cannot afford to live in the country they immigrated to. Simply amazing.

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.

Imagine how affordable Canada would be if 100% of them were deported.

There will be more people in Canada who would love to leave if they can afford to.

The house prices will go down when people stop buying them. As long as there are people who can afford to pay what the homeowner wants, they will NOT go down. That's how a free market works. Leave the Lower Mainland if you can't afford it. Have you ever looked at a map of BC? Big place. Lots of choices.

Trudeau please resign please!! We can’t afford anything. Food on the table for most canadians are tough and u spent millions and donate billions to stupid countries. Don’t forget to take jagmeet with u!

Don’t come to Alberta. It is also becoming not affordable to the high influx of people moving from BC and Ontario

U better get a fucking job asap. Like b4 u land. We Canadians can't afford no more moochers

Canada aill be india in 30 years. They will keep having kids because they all all live together whereas people here now cant afford to have kids because houses are too expensive

Id trade my us citzenship for canadian if i could haha sasakachewan pretty nice and affordable still

Canada has been turned into a Sh*thole of a country. Absolutely astonishing what the Liberal/ NDP has managed to do in 9 years. Canada is unrecognizable now. NOBODY can afford staples.

whoever made this video scripts it as if affordability is a crisis in Canada alone. Just look at Europe, the USA, Australia, Japan. The immigrants are leaving, where will they go to escape inflation and a high cost of living?

I live in Ontario, \n\nI work full time, my wife is an RN, and we still can only afford a tiny one bed basement apartment \n\nHow does that make sense? Oh and I walk 2 hours a day to work and back because we can't afford a car

Canada has stricter immigration laws than America. The USA tends to take in poor migrants compared to Canada, which tends to take in rich immigrants. All those poor migrants that come to America need government assistance to live and America can't afford it!

There is no racism in saying Canada must stop immigration immediately. The government has piled on huge debt. Inflation is making savings no longer possible. Health care is terrible. Jobs are in trouble. Economy is recession. The government answer is to keep printing money and bring in more immigrants. This Ponzi scheme is about to collapse. Canada can’t afford immigrants without destroying the lives of its citizens. Why are they still bringing in immigrants?

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

Schools accepting more than a certain amount of international students a year should be required to provide campus housing as part of the tuition cost for international students. This insures the student can afford both schooling and room and board and they won't put excessive pressure on the local housing market.

Canadian here, I dont think immigration is bad during times of calm and prosperity. As long as we have the ressources to integrate immigrants into society, there's no problem with it.\nBut let's say that these days, the world as a whole isn't in a very good state. We alrealy struggle to house and feed our canadians, we can't afford to take more people that will clog the crappy health system and the rare housing left. It's completely stupid. All those immigrants cant get a roof and a stable job and this creates violence and shit like that. It's weird cuz im normally on the center-left but im getting more and more on the right

If you want to see what mass immigration from one culture can do, just look at Bramladesh, aka. Brampton. You want a drivers license, no problem, $300 and you pass. Truck drivers license, $800. Mortgage, bribe the broker/underwriter 1% of the mortgage amount and you can easily get one from a big bank even if you don't actually qualify. Rental housing, 2 to 4 students per bedroom, assuming they can get housing at all. Multiple people using the same health card. Multiple workers using the same ID. Three drivers per transport truck, one legal and two illegal so it can be operated 24 hrs a day. Just the tip of the iceberg as I'm certain there are many more scams/loopholes being utilized than I'm aware of. Many Indians are hard working, just trying to make a better life for themselves and their families, live in horrid conditions until they can afford better. On an individual basis I don't blame them, but when you import EN MASS, and they all live together in the same area, then the culture of that area changes to the one they are coming from.

The Trudeau government has forced all of this mass immigration on us and it is killing our economy. It used to be affordable to live in Canada, and now we are all struggling to make ends meet due to wage reduction, and rising inflation.

But..But...Canada is the most WOKE country in the G7..so there!\nWe might not be able to afford a house or rent, and cant buy food, or gasoline for our cars to get to work .. but we are really nice to the LGBTQ people and the Trans community too, even though they run the government that has caused this tragedy.

1:41 This is based on opinion - not fact. Ask average Americans how wonderful their health insurance system is - that is, if they can afford it.

Honestly it’s not that I’m completely opposed to immigration in the proper amounts but currently the were kinda eating a** in the housing department, so it feels as though we’re giving space for something that doesn’t completely exist yet, which is also drowning out legitimate citizens from being able to have affordable housing, therefore causing some sort of aggression towards people trying to get away from they own crap, but everyone needs housing and likes it affordable so it’s understandable. Maybe we could handle this sort of intake in like 30-50 years easily, but we’re filling a bucket that has so much going into it, I’m not knowledgeable on Canadian happenings to know all the intricacies. Though a layman could tell Justin Trudeau is a large contributor to this line of politically charged thinking that doesn’t really think about long term consequences.

Stay in India, Canada can’t afford any more immigrants.