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I'm surprised we've seen basically nothing from provincial or federal governments to improve housing/rental affordability. With riding interest rates, I was expecting at least a slump, but that hasn't happened. Instead, we've seen amortizations grow rapidly.

The Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions has recommended

Removing the ability to extend amortization periods could exert downward pressure on some house prices, as it reduces the options available to help some borrowers meet their financial obligation

But (AFAIU) Parliament has ignored the recommendation. It's a really shitty situation, that I don't see a way out of.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Limit how many parcels/properties/acres any one person or business can own.

It would reduce the demand significantly and allow for people to offer less to buy a home when there aren't 15 people trying to buy their fourth rental property.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Limits will always have loopholes:

Open a bunch of small shell companies, each with exactly enough properties to meet the limit

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

be nice of there were restrictions on corporate home purchasing also