In particular, the government is proposing a new housing partnership directly with Manitoba, investing $1 billion through Build Canada Homes. The money will go to transitional housing and wraparound services – personalized supports that aim to address overlapping issues — in Winnipeg, and to building 2,000 new transitional and permanent supportive housing units in the city.
Unfortunately I think it’ll be a cold day in hell before a banker does anything to punish institutional real estate investors. But that tiny, seemingly inextinguishable spark of hope an optimism that lives inside me, refuses to completely give up on the idea.
I’d vote against anyone who does, because whatever they hit corporate landlords with will hit the people who rent from them. And it’ll be a cold day in hell when I rent from Joe down the street.