There’s one government in Canada that’s actually beating back the housing crisis, and it’s not Justin Trudeau’s Liberals or Doug Ford’s Conservatives
There’s one government in Canada that’s actually beating back the housing crisis, and it’s not Justin Trudeau’s Liberals or Doug Ford’s Conservatives
B.C. was not immune to the housing crisis, but with bold choices from an NDP government, they’ve seen housing starts go up by 11 per cent, writes Jessica Bell.
It's almost like the NDP say what they want to do and then do it.
Remind me why we split the vote between them and the Liberals again?
This is BCs provincial NDP, which may or may not be ideologically in sync with the federal NDP. Its a difficult thing to determine as they campaign on different issues typically, but as BCs liberal party was its acting conservative party i tend to look at our parties as shifted one to the right. It tends to follow a lot closer to the federal voting patterns that way.
Edit: that being said i did vote for them
Well, in Ontario it's because "Rae Days" or something like that.
None of the candidates are strong either.
Most people my age don't even know what the fuck Rae Days were. We didn't live through it, but we're living through a housing and affordability crisis and the only people talking about doing anything about it are the NDP.
Unfortunately we don't go out and vote, which is why the lowest voter turnout in history enabled the Ford victory.
NDP are just as crooked as the Conservative and Liberal parties, they have just never had the a chance to stretch their legs.
Makes sense. Despite what Conservatives across the country have been saying. Provincial governments are the best positioned to actually solve housing related problems.
Federal governments have the ability to build a massive amount of social housing and related infrastructure in conjunction with provincial and municipal governments.
They are just ideologically opposed to it.
Only if you pretend the problem is lack of housing not insane immigration. Maybe importing carpenters instead of truckers and counter staff would help.
The NDP is doing the best job in the country for housing affordability but I don't see any metric in the article that quantifies it.
In itself this statement is incorrect.
These policies are making housing more affordable in real time for British Columbians.
The issue with any regional housing affordability improvement is the fact that it is regional and the benefits are not limited to locals. If BC magically halved our housing prices tomorrow it would return to high prices within months with the induced demand. I don't see a solution where affordability is not collectively fixed in this country.
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Oh, I guess that really was the whole thing then. I'm sympathetic to the premise that BC might be doing better than Ontario recently in housing policy, but it's unclear how much cherry-picking was involved in finding that one data point. Considering how far prices had risen out West it's going take more than that to convince me that they're "beating it back."
Prices out west were beyond ridiculous far before the current NDP government.
Yeah that was sort of my point. To say anything meaningful about it you have to look at the longer-term context, not just the latest single housing starts number.
The housing market in Swift fucking Current, Saskatchewan, is comparable in real dollars to St Petersburg, Florida, just outside Miama.