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I am a home owner in Canada. Many of my friends can't afford homes in suburbs or remote locations and they are earning more than average folks do.

This will go bad for them. Canada can't afford retaliatory tariffs.

Housing can either be affordable, or a good investment. It can either stay cheap, or get expensive. It can't do both.

Democracy does not works if majority voters are not intelligence enough.\nOr you will have majority house own will down vote lowering house or pensioners will vote for increase pention even if economy can not afford it

*I'm favoured only God knows how much I praise Him,* $230k every 4weeks! | now have a big mansion and can now afford anything and also support God's work and the church.

We can't afford to continue to have Trudeau as a leader. Your comment on us needing him decreases your credibility.

The rule in Canada is ‘my adult children cannot afford to buy in the neighborhood they grew up in!…housing prices have to go down!\n\nWhat they really mean is they want their next door neighbours to sell THEIR house for $250,000, but still want their own hose to be worth $2.8 million (after paying $135,000 for it in 1985 - like my older sister and her family)….\n\nSorry it doesn’t work that way….oh, and forget about them voting for parties which restrict immigration - if immigration goes down, so will the regular increases in the price of housing….

The world’s second largest country has a housing and affordability crisis, let that sink in! It’s a giant spruce forest full of lakes, rivers, energy, minerals, three oceans, arable land, and, and a very low population density. Of and it’s also right next door to the world’s largest economy and market!

In Japan buildings depreciate in value, like cars, so the house I built last year is worth less this year (and my taxes on it are less). When I first got here I thought it was a horrible system, but now I see what a powerful benefit it is. Housing is quite affordable and there are lots of mixed neighborhoods, like mine, with million-dollar homes, small multi-units, and fewer gated communities. We suffer from a blight of abandoned buildings because at a certain point it just doesn't make economic sense to fix up an old (often cheaply made) home. But because home ownership is a luxury, like a fancy car, not a necessary means to accrue wealth, mortgages and rents are low and there's cheap (and small, so very very small) housing everywhere.

I'll never understand why Canada has the worst affordable housing areas. You have all the lumber you could possibly want. And you even have more land and less people. Make it make sense

I used to work the patch and quit. \n\nIts not worth it to be away getting ground to powder and still not afford anything or being able to justify said prices.\n\nSo many people I know have left and you cant force them back at the point of a gun.

Housing affordability is an issue in Canada, and many, many Western countries. The paradox is: for homes to be more affordable, homeowners would have to, or be forced to, sell at a lower price than today's price. Why should current homeowners give up the equity in their homes so that someone else can afford it?

51st. State????❤Trump,make canada the great 51st. Canada is not free or affordable and won't ever be until they join the greatest country in the world, AMERICA. ?

For 2 decades Canadian cities have had a condo building boom (for non-North Americans, a condo(minium) is a building built by developers with the intent of selling off the apartments individually, instead of the whole building being one large rental property - that's a rental building) with the rather strange peculiarity that the bast majority of those condos are small - studios, one bedroom and one bedroom + den (in North American real estate linguo, a den is a small room without a window). There are some two bedroom apartments, and three+ bedroom apartments are very rare. One of the reasons for this is a general mindset that apartments are for singles, young childless couples and retired empty-nesters, while families are supposed to live in a house of their own. Another reason is that some archaic building codes restrict the type of apartments developers can fit in a building. The result of this is that in a country which certainly does not lack space, there are now tons of small apartments (the demand for which has been going down in many areas), but it's too expensive to afford a larger space to buy (whether a house or one of those rare large apartments) once you want to start a family.

If my country doesn't get housing costs under control they're in serious trouble. The average house in the town I live in is something like 900K and there's basically no local economy. With costs so high I can't afford to start a family. If we keep gaining old folks needing healthcare while keeping housing expenses high and wages low taxes will have to keep going up.\n\nI am not going to continue to pay huge portions of my income for the benefit of the elderly while I can't afford a decent lifestyle. I don't want to but it seems moving to the US or elsewhere is the only option if things continue this way. At list point the local governments are so invested in denying housing permits and abusing zoning laws to prevent housing being built that the only way to fix it would be to strip the provinces and cities of the right to decide their own zoning bylaws. \n\nI want to see a change in the constitution that makes zoning bylaws illegal. There are too many people thinking of their self interest and not of the Nations interest. We deserve to lose the right to decide what can be built in our neighborhoods. We have been abusing this right for too long

Increase access to unused and agricultural land in urban arease\nImpose export tariffs on construction materials\nReduce union fees for construction workers\nRemove municipal restrictions on high density housing\nReduce temporary immigration\n\nJust a few things that would help the housing crisis. A housing deficit serves only the investors, it's time that the state produces housing at a reasonable price. Might be wishful thinking, but we need ways to keep housing affordable.

I grew up on Vancouver Island and the local government didn’t allow for secondary suites. Then with housing crisis continuing the fact that province had to step in with a carrot and stick approach to municipal governments to approve more housing and change regulations stick being if you don’t meet targets you lose power and carrot you hit the targets you get cash this created a direct opportunity cost of nimbyism plus the federal government would top the amounts if a municipal government hit there housing targets. It changed really quickly the municipal government changed the law to allowing secondary suites to be built which the cost per square foot to build is 1/3 compared to new builds. This allows more rental properties and housing options and allows more people to purchase goods and services in the local area and not dramatically increasing the costs of new infrastructure to service them as compared to a new housing development on the outskirts of the city. A home could comfortably double it’s density every effectively, affordably and swiftly.

The housing market in Canada is out of control. Prices keep going up, and it feels impossible for first-time buyers to afford anything.

Quick note for non-Canadians (or just Canadians who don't know). When he says a majority of the nation are homeowners that's kind of not what the data says. It defines homeowner as someone who lives in a house which is owner occupied. So for example, an adult child who can't afford to rent their own place and is stuck living in their parents basement is a homeowner. I can tell you right now they don't feel like a homeowner.

It's honestly kinda terrible here, dual income families who make 100-150k a year are in a position where they can not rent a reasonable place and also can't afford to buy. It makes no sense. I want to leave but then I'd lose my job.

I love how America is this guys favorite economy but half their people can't afford a $500 financial setback without going into debt

Canadians cant afford Canada. We wont stand by and be invaded

no kidding, I had to go work (2week contract water treatment DAFT system installation) in Bellingham, WA two years ago and I thought I was gonna get mugged by cartel gang bangers everyday that pretty well ran the lobby and halls of the Bellingham Lodge... couldn't afford anything better, and the company (Tradesman International) did not pay the per-diem as they originally agreed to! Aside that, the Asian owner ran my card again for the hotel charge, and I had to go through my bank's fraud dept. to get it back. They don't shut down or investigate the hotel! WTF? Everything in WA state is corrupt!

It took me and my girlfriend months to find an affordable apt. In 84! These ILEGAL immigrants walk in and our taxes PAY THEIR RENT!? F u c k that!

New Yorkers voted for these politicians and DAs so let them live in the cesspool they created. I feel sorry for the Americans who can't afford to move.

I leave in Canada since 1992 and it was very difficult to became lendent immigrant and life was very affordable interesting the first house we bought lake front for 48 thousand and townhouse for 58 thousand in Brandford and it was affordable to pay mortgage even i became a widow but now gasoline so expancive rased 3 times so and grosseries prices increased the same .Why we have to pay carbontax ,landtaxes wich became 2500 compaire 350 in 2000? You don't have for whoom complain if you didnt have good service the courts always on contractor's side even you have all evidences about stealing materials .It is so ashamed so rich and nice country became the most expensive to leave !

No you are suffering from gender dysphoria, and should enjoy your focus on your health … instead of expecting the world to tip toe around “making you feel” accepted. Pretending to be something you are not is not safe nor affordable. Stop the scams 2025.

The people leaving Canada are older, and they have money. The ones coming are poor and compete with other poor immigrants that can't afford to leave. When I came to Canada with my parents they had to be skilled and bring with them the minimum of $10.000.00. Today the door is open everyone comes to visit finds a job that hire illegal migrants, and never leave. The company saves and no one pays taxes. The government is corrupt. Immigration, Unions even most police officers are corrupt to the core with DEI hiring Canada is in a crisis to say the least.

New York looks disgusting. Why not being progressive and regulate how much hospitals can charge patients instead? Or build more affordable but spacious housing?

So they can afford plane tickets for their 50 family members and can afford to pay cartels for passage but can’t afford the fees for citizenship. Duly noted.

FORMER luxury hotels being the key word. Once they’re all out they’ll be really pleased with the amount of damage done by people who don’t believe they need to take care of their own spaces. Every one of those hotels will get exactly what they asked for and no one will ever want to stay until they are torn down and rebuilt from all the damage. God bless elitist liberals in NY who don’t have to be anywhere near the crime and struggle but feel good about themselves for inflicting it on American citizens who can’t afford to live in penthouses. Hey libtards what comes around goes around. Maybe not in this life but I wish you luck in the next.

If you can’t afford it then leave and ask India to give you what you got here! They will give you nothing that’s why your here…Guess what pack your bag and go as Trudeau let way too many Indians in so blame him!

Why the F did we (??) let them the F in, in the first place?!!!! We don’t want them either! We can’t afford them!!

Stop calling them sanctuary cities. You should call them cheap labor cities. These cheap labor cities like Chicago, are causing major negotiation issues for unions. The business’s in these liberal cities abuse these employees with 12 hour work days, and wages below living standards. Most of these employees in Chicago can’t even afford public transportation to get to work.

If you can affird a flight then you can afford to cone legally

I live in NYC and this whole situation is disgusting worst off is I work in most of those hotel (low voltage tech) and those people are here for hand out free living the governor don’t know S#*£ I could barley afford my house with rising tolls food gas electric rent, worst off I can’t afford healthcare I really hope the governor read this and there are MANY people like me

So I can barely afford to take a trip to NYC from Canada, just to see it, and now I don't want to because it's getting trashed by those losers.

I'm an Australian traveller who went on a solo trip around the US in 2023. I couldn't afford a hotel room in New York so I opted for a Hostel. The hostel I stayed at had many Latinos and upon speaking to them, they were living there for free in exchange for cleaning, reception work, etc. It shocked me that businesses were happy about this exchange of paying wages to actual Americans

Americans are not putting up with this shit show anymore arrest any of the clowns attempting to stop this crap, Marthas Vineyard is the only place in the US that can afford criminal migrants

How about spending the money you’re giving to the illegal immigrants to the elderly who are the forgotten population. We can’t even get the right help to take care of my in-laws who are both suffering from dementia and we can’t afford to put them in a nursing. Besides the fact, that we don’t care to put there to die. The whole nursing and assisted living facilities are just a money making business. They don’t care to do the right things for the elderly. The agencies advertise that they have qualified people to take care of the elderly when in fact, the people they hire are not qualified. These agencies should be all investigatedz

How they afford these plane rides. Somebody breaking laws.

I was born in NYC and I've never been able to afford any type of hotel stays in my own city ..... I hope Joe Biden burn in hell for turning his back on USA.

So they can afford a flight from mexico to canada? They don't need to much help then bc their doing better than most US citizens.

If you can afford to fly to Canada, you don't deserve asylum in America.

If they can afford to fly to Canada what sort of people are coming in. Makes you wonder if they are terrorists or cartel.

I was a diesel truck mechanic couldn't even afford food and borrowing gas to get home from work Americans are tax slaves why are we so poor is so messed up

If it was me I'd close our border down for 20 years, we can't afford these people where over 36 trillion dollars in debt, we don't have the jobs, we don't have the housing, we can't feed these people we need to take care of America ! Sorry I'm not a racist ,I just care about our country that's the bottom line !

How are such poor people living in object poverty affording to fly clover the world to get into the US ? Something isn't right

About time we started talking about this!! Who can afford to fly there? The worst of the worst.

Great, totally impovished ppl in poverty, who have no $$, leaving Mex cause of ABJECT POVERTY, can afford plane tickets?\n\nYou gotta a be a special kind of Stupid, to listen to @Cash Jordan