Pretty sure it’s companies like Blackrock
It’s both really, but investment firms are certainly a bigger, growing, threat
Is the solution not incredibly obvious? Ban non-owner occupied purchase of SFH. You want to get in the market? You need to create purpose built units with high density.
Yes, but that’s not gonna fly with the capitalists.
Also less high density, more medium density please. That’s how you get dense but livable places like Montreal.
I’ll repost a comment I made before again here:
If you have half the population each have 1 investment property. You must have the other half renters. You literally want to create two classes. Those with investment properties and those with no property. One class above another. You’re just using billionaires as a shield. You want to put yourself in a class above other people.
We should all work so that each person has one home.
And the “I don’t want to work until I die” should be covered by social insurance/social security instead of making someone else a renter.
context: https://lemmy.ca/comment/4927203
Not everyone wants to own and not everyone that doesn’t want to own wants to rent an apartment and it’s not the government’s place to own single family houses for rent (all provincial governments should have a non profit crown corporation owning all rental properties over a certain number of doors though).
Edit: Downvote all you want, I know tons of people that don’t want to have to deal with the maintenance responsibilities that come with a house, they still have a family and don’t want to live in an apartment, would you rather force them to own the place they live in?
it’s not the government’s place to own single family houses for rent
all provincial governments should have a non profit crown corporation owning all rental properties over a certain number of doors though
Why the arbitrary distinction? What’s so special about the number 1 here?
The level of maintenance per unit and the density issues caused by single family housing means they’re a luxury item and not a necessity, the government should be there to make sure everyone has acceptable living conditions (a private bedroom for everyone, a kitchen, bathroom and livingroom per household…) not to provide them enough space to have a home theater room or a bedroom used as a walk-in.
There are two solutions.
- Housing Cooperatives: https://chfcanada.coop/about-co-op-housing/
- Community Land Trusts: https://www.communityland.ca/
Both provide people the ability to have homes without direct ownership nor dealing with the hassle of ownership nor the uncertainty of renting.
It has the benefits of owning. Control over rent prices, ability of modifying living space (including putting up pictures) and benefits of renting (allowing easy relocation, delegate maintenance responsibility).
Housing cooperatives and CLTs have the benefits of both without the drawbacks of either. It also treats housing as a human right as opposed to an “investment”.
There are housing cooperatives for students, the most temporary population and the least wanting to maintain a property.
You can be a part of this movement too by donating or investing in such projects. I urge you to do so.
They work, and work well. There just needs be mass injection of funds into them.
It is most certainly the government’s business providing housing for its citizens. Like we did, the state- and thereby the people (who own the fucking state), collectively owned like half of all homes in the country. Rent was dirt cheap, anything belonging to the apartment or house was the responsibility of the landlord (a communal entity) to maintain on their own buck, everyone could easily get a home, and it was considered one of the social wonders of the world.
Then the capitalists bought their way into government, sold it all, and now we have a “housing crisis”.
Conservatives- they sure know how to create a good life for everyone.
This is only true if there’s the same number of houses as people. There are way more houses than people.
Trash analogy
If there are more than enough houses then an investment house would be a bad investment since no one would need to rent it and/or no one would want to buy it with a good profit margin. Instead, they’re buying houses that people want, which is driving up home prices and letting them set high rents.
It is not an analogy. That’s just math.
I’d like you to show the math as to what the ratio and relation between landlords and renters are.
I’ll wait.
Some more scenarios:
If there are more houses than people, then investors would loose money and housing won’t be a good “investment”.
If there are fewer houses than people, then the same situation would unfold now just there would be homeless people.
I’d like to see this demonstrated as false.
Also this fits perfectly fits within supply demand curves.
If you have people who want to own homes + an investment property, you’d’ve increased demand compared to everyone just wanting one home. D*2 > D. Hence the mere act of desiring investment properties and acting on that desire causes prices to increase. Prices only decreases when supply increases. As S ▲, then prices fall, P ▼. However the set amount of humans stay the same. So the following scenarios are possible: [N+0], Everyone wants one home [N+I], At least one person wants an investment property
- S[=N+0]=D[=N+0], P-
- S[=N+0]<D[=N+I], P▲
- S[<N+0]<D[=N+0], P▲
- S[<N+0]<D[=N+I], P▲
- S[>N+0]>D[=N+0], P▼
- S[<N+I]<D[=N+I], P▲
- S[>N+0]>D[=N+0], P▼
- S[>N+I]>D[=N+I], P▼
I don’t know how I feel about the “mom-and-pop” characterization, but yes.
It always rubbed me the wrong way when the previous housing minister made a point of saying we needed to protect the Mom and Pop investors. Like - no, we absolutely should not.
I absolutely agree. I’ll repeat a comment I made separately.
I’ll repost a comment I made before again here:
If you have half the population each have 1 investment property. You must have the other half renters. You literally want to create two classes. Those with investment properties and those with no property. One class above another. You’re just using billionaires as a shield. You want to put yourself in a class above other people.
We should all work so that each person has one home.
And the “I don’t want to work until I die” should be covered by social insurance/social security instead of making someone else a renter.
context: https://lemmy.ca/comment/4927203
Robert Kavcic, senior economist at BMO Capital Markets, told Global News “as much as a quarter to maybe a third or slightly more of certain markets are being bought up by multiple property purchasers or investors. So (that is) adding another layer of competition to first time buyers that are actually looking to get into the housing market for a place to live.”
If true that’s fucking nuts. That sort of thing needs to be taxed so hard to no longer make it profitable. We all understand that you don’t go for seconds until everyone has eaten, but when it comes to a basic human need like shelter, people say FYGM.
There’s a lot of people saying it’s the corporations fault which isn’t exactly untrue and they do have significant sway politically with lobbying.
But it’s the people who keep bringing back politicians that clearly don’t want to lower housing prices because a segment of a population is to heavily invested into it. If anything the current tax system clearly incentivize people to invest into housing, imagine if we treated water like housing and people would buy up then vote for anyone that’ll make the prices go up.
No, corporate buyers and lack of regulation is pricing out first time buyers.
