Be wary of any politician who tells you they can cure all your problems.
They can't and they won't. They're just saying what you want to hear to gain power.
third option?
and so many others online. there are so many very tight and close echo chambers, where people outright invent a new reality for themselves, and get angry, antagonistic towards actual reality
See: AntiVaxxers, NeoNazi's, and Flat Earthers.
at least before social media these nutbars stayed isolated and alone and couldn't get together and recruit / spread their messages easily.
There are a lot of people who see housing getting further out of reach. Rents are going up. Homes are too expensive for young people to buy. It’s too expensive for some home owners to move into larger/nicer homes.
there is absolutely 100% a housing crisis. no argument from me. Please don't take what I post as some support for the LPC. I AM NOT A LPC voter. I am just frustrated at the purposeful propaganda intended to disrupt government in the desire to put in place a more corporate friendly (historically at least) Conservative government, who has also historically, done even worse for Canadians, while all lying about it.
a lot of cases, people are seeing their mortgage/rent increase while they’re living in the same place
nothing new to me. I have a mortgage. I know
We don’t see any kind of comprehensive plan to get prices from where they are to where they were a decade ago
because that is not and has never been a goal of the federal government nor has that been ever in their pervue. Especially since the Canadian government has essentially been a Neoliberal free market money growth economy since the era of Mulroney. what you likely want is a shift to that to a more social based governance. Well, you're not going to get arguments from me there.
Nobody should be profiting off basic needs until the needs of all are met. I'm a mixed socialist :p
The simple fact is in a neoliberal and capital based economy, all things inflate. The biggestt problem is that theres a class of people whose incomes did not inflate in line with the rest of society. And nobody seems to want to care about them.
instead, we see a trickle of piecemeal announcements that talk about tens of thousands of units over decades. It doesn’t seem like enough.
This comes down to jurisdiction, and actual powers though. What would be the biggest, and most dramatic change to allow for mass building of homes? Fixing the provincial barriers to home building. Those barriers are in the power of our premieres who are all current conservative, and instead of doing anything about it, are saying "BUT ITS TRUDEAUS FAULT!~"" while doing absolutely fucking NOTHING to fix what is in their power. THis is intentional. This is rich developers using their money and power and influence in media to convince the masses (who in their defence, don't have the time to be OCD about this like me) to hate LPC and put a party in place who have their own nefarious behaviour in the housing crunch. (this is also exactly whats happening with the gas tax, which is 100% the premieres fault for having us pay)
The CMHC simply needs to be given back power and money to build non-profit housing to meet the needs. Something, that would cost so much money, that it will also get the inevitable "WHOSE PAYING FOR IT" anger and rhetoric.
(I still can't figure out why I'm not seeing your posts in the actual communities)_
while this one talks about 30k dwellings.
No it doesn't. The OP of the post edited out the actual words in the article to make it seem like that was what was said. That is not what was published on the Parl government site. The exact wording of the 30k number:
Delivering a $15 billion top-up to the Apartment Construction Loan Program to build a minimum of 30,000 new apartments. With this top-up, the program’s financing is on track to build over 131,000 new apartments within the next decade.
Is this enough? I can't answer that. But the policy isn't just 30k new dwellings. It was specific to a MINIMUM of 30k new APARTMENTS. nothign to do with houses, condominiums, or overall housing numbers.
~~Now ask yourself. Why did the OP omit the full wording of the statement? Sounds like they're just trying to push and feed that ongoing hate boner.~~
in addition that is a TOP UP to an existing program and not a new single investment: https://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/professionals/project-funding-and-mortgage-financing/funding-programs/all-funding-programs/apartment-construction-loan-program
I think you’re underestimating the amount of organic free-range rage that has built up over the past decade. We’ve watched as housing has almost doubled in price.
I do not. this housing problem started long before the current federal government. I was in the same place 20 years ago when we had a different administration.
the dollar amounts were different, but housing was still generally outside our reach as single people. this is a result of neoliberalism capitalism, and not any specific actions taken by Trudeau, or even Harper before him (who also massively ramped up immigration despite his own rhetoric). It's almost like the problem is our desire to stick to neoliberalism for things like housing. But that's popular because the majority of Canadians agree with it. And in that sense, the government is doing what is best for it's majority (or perceived)
At this point, I don’t think conversation is “nobody in government is doing anything”, it’s more “is it going to make a difference?” And “are they doing the right thing?”
Your arguments are that. which is legit. But no, go read the room a little better and there's a good chunk of "Liberals are doing nothing"... while they repeat tikto and twitter rants based on misinformation.
As I claimed originally, there's a LOT of ignorance being pushed intentionally on the housing crisis in order to put the blame 100% on Trudeau, despite the actual powers and responsibilities falling on what is Currently provinces led by Conservatives. So the argument that it's somehoow a "LPC" symptom, is misinformation. LPC is doing what they've always done, slow or nothing until shit hits the fan. This is the LPC for the last 50 years. and Canadian's on general like "status Quo" governments who aren't going to massively shake things up just for 20% of the population. (This isn't to ignore that we have to fix the 20%)
iN fact: A Lot of this is NOT organic. Our media in particular is nearly entirely owned by both Conservative party doners, or in the case of Post Media, is 100% owned by Chatham asset management. An American media conglomerate who was found guilty in illegal campaign funding fro Trump, and has outright stated that their goals are to get rid fo the liberal party and ensure conservative messaging. They have outright lied as part of this campaign.,
Don’t undersell this. Financial advice paints homes as great investments, because of the tax benefits on mortgage payments and sale profit. That is part of the reason Canadians are willing to spend so much on homes - because they expect to cash out with hefty profits. Limiting or removing those benefits would make a huge difference.
This is not untrue, but it's a bit simplified.
Financial advice paints homes as great investments
Yes it does. The banks and media have pushed this for decades. You cannot sit and read a paper, or listen to news without advertising for home buying as an investment vehicle. But if you dig into why? It's because the owners of these banks and papers are invested in real estate. And have the money and power to lobby the government for deregulation and access where the rest of us don't.
MEANWHILE, it's those same very rich billionaire paper owners taking that money and investments, publishing about the housing crisis and how you, without a house, should hate Trudeau.
and yes, I THINK that should all be curtailed and regulated.IMHO, Newspapers and media ownership should be disconnected from the editorial boards of papers, and a "bill of rights" so to speak made which ensures Journalistic integrity, and fact based reporting is mandatory. And in addition, The Budget from these papers should directly count against the campaign funding for the parties they push for. Why is it ok for a newspaper for example to fully endorse a political party and candidate, push only their messaging and narrative, and NOT count towards to the campaing funding for that party?
https://www.readthemaple.com/election-endorsements/
Any media conglomerate who endorses a political party should be forced to open their books and have those applied to the political parties campaign rules.
Does that sound "organic"?
Especially since the majority of the cause of housing development crunch is the Province. The Province has the authority over developers, how many houses are built, zoning regulations, and laws over building types. Which is the number one reason why housing is a mess. The developers will only build mcmansions or shoebox condos due to profit motive.
These same developers who in Ontario, ran "Ontario Proud" and were given preferential treatment by Doug Ford for greenbelt land. (which is currently being investigated by the RCMP, and has already cost an MP, and staffer their job in what looks like some handy's for land acces in vegas, and $1000 per plate wedding invites to Ford's daughter's wedding)
So yes, some of it is organic, but a lot of the rampant hate being directed exclusively in one direction is not. It is being pushed by agendas and individuals who will directly benefit from a Conservative leadership. And I do not believe they care about putting roofs over peoples heads, since you know, pretty much all of them are house investors too (So is dear old Skippy)
“is it going to make a difference?” And “are they doing the right thing?”
complete valid discussion to have. One I know you in particular do have. But you can see enough people repeating incorrect misinformation and rhetoric online, that these actual good conversations inevitably get enshitified by people repeating falsehoods.
because they expect to cash out with hefty profits.
yes and no. people just want the knowledge that they, when they have to retire, are going to be able to do so with some money in hand. With the constant attack on our social services, especially those by the Harper government, people pivoted to put money into what was already a growing investment market of real estate.
people living in their homes generally do not give a flying fuck what the current value is since they are actively living there. I can tell you as a home owner, my house value could be 10 million today and I Don't give a flying fuck. This is my home. my roof over my head. It's the investor class that cares. And they should not have access to homes while people struggle to find a place to live.
Sorry for the long post. I don't believe you're one of those people I was refering to since you generally are posting with thought in your posts. But there are too many people on social media who read a twitter post by PP or Ford and have immediately gone to spread those false messages and push hateful and divisive speech.
However, I don't know if something is wrong with your account as I only saw this in my inbox. Not a single other one of your posts appear anywhere when I browse Lemmy, and I don't have you blocked so I don't know what's going on.
My point was about how he became that rich, compared to other people with similar parents money, if he is a complete idiot.
You're lack of understanding about this doesn't constitute others arguing in a fallacious matter. We are not arguing a strawman but explaining to you HOW Musk got to where he was. Which is in SPITE of his intelligence, not because of it.
You're arguing your own fallacy based on your own lack of ability to grasp concepts. Congradulations, you're guilty of Personal Incredulity fallacy:
Intelligence
They’re lacking intelligence
Thank you
Today was rough. Been bed ridden since mid day and had to abandon work early cause of pain
The thing that scares me is potentially needing to replace cannabis with pharmaceuticals to deal with the pain, and I’m not sure that’s better
But this is a conversation to have with my doctor
There are definitely some federated servers that need to be removed from network
Lemmy.ml in particular is being used to push specific voices and banning anyone else
Banned apparently from asklemmy on there because one asshole interpreted me supporting Israel. When my comment exclusively was pointing out that the past the use made was low effort trolling meme in a thread complaining about trolling
So thank you [email protected] for directly evidencing that you, and your node are hateful little agenda pushing shits.
I want to love lemmy
But the federated model will fail if nodes like the .ml continue to online and assholes like this mod have zero accountability
I honestly don’t feel like because I’d these problems this site is any better than Reddit.
~~We also need the power to block a node completely from our feeds.(found it in filters)~~ Also to block and ban entire nodes from our own communities as i don’t want any lemmy.ml users in my sub
Keep being salty little shits ml users. Your proving the point to the rest of the lemmy world
The biggest mod tool: manual ban entry for preventing certain users. Looking for a way to ban from a community an individual before they show up.
Yup. here too in Canada.
The leader of the opposition, and several of his party members were found cohorting and publicly hanging out with neo-nazi's and insurrectionists.
They then paraded their only token Jewish MP in the party to get up in parliament and claim that the CPC can't be nazi's / racist since She's a Jew. (Meanwhile, I'm from her community, and her community HATES her for being a violence spewing anti-nonjew asshole, who has been encouraging Jewish parents to arm themselves against the islam/palestinian threats to their children in Canada). the fact that a Jewish person seems perfectly ok to ignore and lie about her own party members meeting with NeoNazi's should tell you that for her, it's about power and she's willing to use our heritage for that power.
Seriously: Look up MP Melissa Lantsman history. She's one of the most Vile human beings I've sadly met.