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Housing-scalpers be like:
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A landlord owning 30,000 properties is wild.
If he divides his time equally between each property and works 8 hour days 5 days per week like a normal drone:
Yeah he probably has a team employed to deal with all this and doesn't actually do anything himself, but what value to any of them bring to society.
If all of his property were seized and given to homeless people, it would solve 13% of all Canadian homelessness overnight. Just find 7 more people like him and no-one in Canada would be homeless.
... what about the people who live in his properties now? Wont they be homeless if you give it to people? I'm not defending the guy, I was actually looking for the video to mock the dumbass for being a dumbass, but this statement doesn't make any sort of sense.
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Looks like it wouldn't effect Canadian housing at all since most of the housing they own is in the sunbelt
https://www.facebook.com/housingopen/videos/toronto-landlord-who-owns-30000-houses-explains-why-young-people-dont-want-homes/3164766910508794/
You should also see what percent of owned homes are [unlived in](Census Mapper https://share.google/sxb8FC9CwK5hrRhMA)
... less than 15%?
I see less than 8% on the source given.
For context, the the number of homeless is less than 1% of the Canadian population.