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Corporations hoarding homes thank Canadians for enthusiastically blaming immigration
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There's just not enough houses, though. Measurably. Banning landlords would be bad news for anyone who can't afford a mortgage downpayment.
Great news then. Banning landlords of non purpose built units, would drop prices!
Like former office space or whatever? That's not what OP said, but encouraging repurposing is an idea worth talking about.
No, as in single family homes. If the building was expressly built with density in mind (think triplex and above) then it's fine IMO. This reduces the land scarcity side of the equation, as well as incentivizes density.
social housing
Yeah, we could do a Castro and just nationalise all rentals, in theory. Growing a government department that plays the role of every landlord at once would be a big project, though, and of course it's not politically viable at the moment. And we'd still have a housing shortage.
Not public housing, social housing. We could seed self-owning housing coops.
Same problem as with getting a mortgage, then. A lot of people don't have the money to start or buy into such a thing.