Liberal platform: Carney pledges to cap non-permanent resident population at below 5%
Liberal platform: Carney pledges to cap non-permanent resident population at below 5% - iPolitics
Proposed cap is a 5% non-permanent resident cap, and a cap of 1% annual population growth (416k). A 14% cut from last years numbers, a 53% increase over 2015.
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This deep into a housing crisis and a cost of living crisis, you have to cap immigration to housing completion - natural growth rate. Otherwise you will just exacerbate the issues, and we'll never get ahead.
Or you can... Build more houses. It's not that complicated.
That's not an "or". I said scale one to the other. Build as many houses as you can. It still holds true.
Literally none of the "build more houses" they've attempted so far has succeeded on provincial, municipal, or federal levels. We have significant bottlenecks that cannot be addressed in any short period of time, so limiting the incoming strain into the system WHILE also building more houses is the only realistic path.
That's because they keep trying to build houses whose primary objective is to be profitable for developers and/or investors. They keep building either suburban subdivisions or isolated condo towers. We need to be building to house people, not to create profit, i.e, we need to be building off market housing. And to make it work, we need to be building housing in transit oriented, mixed use walkable neighborhoods, not in car centric suburban sprawls.
Okay how about: Build houses without worrying about property values. Capitalism should have absolutely nothing to do with housing.
We have to wait for the boomers to die. Their wealth is all tied up in their overvalued homes, it's their retirement strategy. They're never going to agree to anything that lowers property values provides affordable housing.
NIMBYs existing is not a valid excuse as far as bottlenecks go.
Which is.... What the liberals are proposing aswell? See, the liberals and the NDP and every other party except the conservatives have the bandwidth to actually do multiple things at once. Bring the rate of immigration down and raise the rate of home building up, and then we can slowly increase immigration for those who have the skills we need
The Liberal and Conservative housing plans aren't so dissimilar. The NDP are the ones proposing non-market housing solutions.
Did he not just say that?
Its more then that though. We need more then just housed. We need more hospitals more schools.