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submitted 5 months ago by lautan@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca

Canadian real estate prices have surged in almost every market, with a typical home price doubling in many regions. A median household in major cities like Toronto and Vancouver would need to save over 20 years for just the down payment, more than 3x the historic average. Seems absurd? The outlandish scenario was apparently a […]

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[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 17 points 5 months ago

Fuck me that's stupid.

Australian politicians from our main two parties very obviously think like this as well. But they're both—even the right-wing "hates the poor" party—smart enough to not fucking say it out loud. They even pay lip service to the idea housing should be "affordable" from time to time.

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