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So does this only benfit building developers? Seems like another rich getting richer situation.
Maybe, but if you need more housing, rewarding development is what you need to do.
It's like when someone cries: "We need more workers". What's the answer? That's right: "Pay them more!". This time it's "We need more houses". But the answer is the same: "Pay them more!"
I'm having trouble with the "if you need more housing, rewarding development is what you need to do." Part
From my limited understanding the purpose of a developer is to do speculative research to determine what building ideas they can make a profit off. They pay the builders and then find a buyer for the finished product.
So I can see how removing the gst can help motivate the building of apartments. but is that really the best strategy? It seems like a gamble to me. If it's still more profitable to build over priced condos they'd stick to that. Having affordable apartments near by those condos may lower the demand for expensive condos. So it may not be in the best intrest of developers to make them, let alone make them last.
We'd need somthing a little more systemic. Somthing not dependent on doing the profitable, thing but doing what is nessary to ensure there is quality affordable housing.
Justin Trudeau could eliminate poverty, feed the world's hungry, and bring about world peace and you Eeyores would still find a way to chant, "TrUdEaU bAd!"
Conversely, he could do (well, did) essentially nothing for a few years while the housing and affordability crisis intensifies and somehow there'd still be a Greek chorus of red party kool-aid drinkers telling non-partisan Canadians that he's the second coming of Christ.
Is that a thing? Really? Or is that just blue party Kool-Aid drinker projection like the, "alt-left"?
I think that if you step out of your echo bunker and take an honest look you're going to find that many people who vote Liberal do so while plugging their noses. I do. Trudeau has been an incredible disappointment to me. He's far too right wing for my tastes. I would rather have a liberal leader who was actually a liberal rather than a center right corporate stooge. We just know that electing Pierre Polievre would be a far worse option.
Speaking of alt-right projection...can you name any alt-left talking heads, or alt-left organizations? Do you have any contemporary Canadian examples? I mean, most of us can name dozens of alt-right taking heads and alt-right organizations. I think that the alt-left is an alt-right boogieman made up by the alt-right to make itself feel better about its extremism. Like, "We're not as bad as everyone says we are because there's an alt-left that's doing the same things that were doing." but no one can name them.
Red party Kool-Aid drinkers are the same thing.
They're literally in a left echo chamber. Most of Lemmy is. And yet we don't see what they suggested happening - Trudeau being praised as the second coming. π Heavy innuendo.
You mean, "reality"?
Well, kind of. While reality has a left bias, I don't think there are many CPC voters on lemmy.ca but they do exist in reality. I'm not complaining though! π It's nice being able to discuss reality without getting dragged into fantasy by reality denying voices.
Yup.
He wouldn't do that even if he could.