To solve the housing crisis we need to turn away from neoliberal doctrines and look towards solutions that actually work. Our own history, as well as the experiences of our contemporaries abroad, teach us that the only way to restore housing affordability is to create non-market housing alternatives that anchor prices and push the investor class out of the housing system.

The evidence is clear: Canada’s housing crisis is not a simple supply and demand problem. It is a problem of who owns our homes and why. By focusing almost exclusively on expanding supply through the private sector the NHS has given our housing system over to predaceous investors while deeply indebting everyday Canadians.

  • orcrist@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    Thank you a lot for sharing this, because I didn’t know the history at all and this topic comes up south of the border as well. It’s good to have specific things to point to, success stories that we might be able to copy, if we could somehow get enough political willpower. Maybe one of these decades, up there or down here.

    • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
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      3 months ago

      because I didn’t know the history at all

      You and most of the people commenting on it.

      Good on you for being willing to become more informed.