- cross-posted to:
- canada@lemmy.ca
- cross-posted to:
- canada@lemmy.ca
the housing crisis has been created by banking practices that have directed excessive amounts of credit into the property market, and especially residential mortgages. As a result, buyers can bid prices up to ever-higher levels, resulting in a market where people must pay more for the same type of housing. Hence financialization can be defined as an inflationary tendency in the housing market that is induced jointly by banks’ desire to expand mortgage lending and buyers’ confidence that the value of their properties will rise.
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However, the image of a bubble bursting and prices returning to a more rational “equilibrium” level does not seem to apply to the housing market. Because housing is a necessity, people are willing to pay high prices for it. Bidding wars can therefore persist even when relative supply grows, so long as credit markets enable them.
“slightly higher level”
They quite literally multiplied it by no less than 3, everywhere.
How much supply are you looking for here?
No, it isn’t, and it’s very easy to double check.
https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2021/dp-pd/prof/details/page.cfm?Lang=E&SearchText=ontario&DGUIDlist=2021A000011124%2C2021A000259%2C2021A000235&GENDERlist=1&STATISTIClist=1%2C4&HEADERlist=20
Go look at the section of that statscan data that shows number of total units by bedroom count. Even if you assume that 4+ bedrooms is only 4, the total bedrooms in Canada is about 40.5 Million and that data was as of 2021, when the population from Statscan was a little under 37 million.
Like I said before, even assuming nobody ever sleeps in the same room, and using the worst case for counting bedrooms where no house has more than 4, there are still 4 million excess bedrooms in this country.
Once you account for couples, it’s probably close to 10-15 million excess bedrooms with nobody sleeping in them.
Even if you look at just BC data, it’s the same thing. If you switch BC out for Ontario, guess what… At least 15.1 million bedrooms, and 14.2 million people in 2021.
You need to stop spouting off about “factually untrue” when the facts don’t support your argument. There is more than enough housing available for everyone at the moment if it were distributed equitably. Homeowners and politicians are lying to you to keep profiting off your stupidity.
Nobody gives a shit about housing in bumfuck nowhere exurbs. It simply does not count because pretending people can be warehoused there when they can’t does not solve the problem.
Quit citing irrelevant bullshit and talk only about housing within commuting distance of downtown Vancouver or Toronto (or in general, urban centers where people actually want to be), because that’s what actually matters.
You can look up the data even for cities specifically, it’s not significantly different. You aren’t doing that because you don’t want to be proven wrong.
Continue tilting at windmills my friend. I’m going to go after the actual monsters.