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What's behind Canada's housing crisis? Decades of policy failures, says former deputy PM | CTV News (www.ctvnews.ca)

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Canada's housing crunch is the result of decades of poor policy stemming from the federal government leaving the issue to the provinces in the 1980s, according to one former deputy prime minister.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In addition to building homes to increase supply, Copps said the federal housing strategy should also entail ways to incentivize migration out of Canada’s most densely populated areas.

“The other thing we need to look at is what the housing prices are in rural and remote communities versus urban areas and how we can encourage people to move around. We learned during the pandemic that everybody doesn't have to live in downtown Toronto,” she said.

Interesting thought; it would help if provinces would revamp employment legislation to include rights for working from home. The other thing to consider is internet access is more rural and remote areas. Starlink helps, but the bandwidth is still a fraction of what is available in major cities. Either way, reinforcing WFH helps with both the housing crisis as well as reducing commutes and traffic pollution.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I love to dream too, but I really don't see the government going up against ISPs to provide high speed internet to rural communities or against giant corporations to allow work from home.