Crypto Turd has such simple solutions for housing.
Even though he was responsible for when Harper cut funding to housing. Oh yeah lets forget about your own crappy record on housing when you were in government.
He is so busy congratulating himself in the house of commons on his self declared "brilliant" video that he had the airs of a over confident teenager.
Voters are going to be really disappointed once they see that Crypto can't easily solve the housing crisis.
Gary Mason puts it in perspective.
Poilievre’s Housing Hell video offers a lousy, dime-store analysis of our housing crisis
Gary Mason ([url]https://www.theglobeandmail.com/authors/gary-mason/)National[/url] affairs columnist
Published Yesterday Updated 6 hours ago
"For instance, Mr. Poilievre zeroes in on high government borrowing between 2020 and 2022. This led to inflation, which led to higher interest rates, which led to higher borrowing costs. He doesn’t mention that those years were beset by a pandemic, during which governments worldwide were borrowing to help those who’d lost their jobs.
He doesn’t mention that if it weren’t for those government cheques, thousands wouldn’t have been able to pay their mortgages or their rents. Many would have lost their homes. No, the federal Conservative Leader doesn’t touch that one with a 10-foot pole.
In Mr. Poilievre’s world, the most complex issues have the simplest solutions – other politicians are just too stupid to see them. For instance, he will get rid of the “gatekeepers” driving up housing costs – bureaucrats working in cities and municipalities who impose unnecessary and costly conditions on new home construction.
His common-sense solution? Withhold federal infrastructure grants until construction is complete and people are living in the homes. Why didn’t anyone think of that before? Well, maybe because cities and municipalities need that grant money to build the infrastructure necessary to build new homes. If you withhold it, it will only reduce the number of homes that can get built.
Andy Yan, director of Simon Fraser University’s City Program and one of the country’s top urban analysts, told me it’s hard not to be impressed with the quality of the Housing Hell video. It smartly focuses on the complete decoupling of house prices with income, he said. But it is clearly an outsider’s view of the situation, one that ignores complexities that can only be seen and appreciated from the inside of the housing conundrum.
“The video is someone offering simple answers to intractable problems,” Mr. Yan told me. “I would say: Beware of false idols.”
The video has been viewed more than four million times as of this writing. Many of those who’ve watched it are, I’m sure, people whose dream of owning a home seems to become more distant by the day.
The type of people whose desperation might make them gullible enough to believe Pierre Poilievre ([url]https://www.theglobeandmail.com/topics/pierre-poilievre/)has[/url] all the answers, and that he will help them to live happily ever after."
Even though he was responsible for when Harper cut funding to housing. Oh yeah lets forget about your own crappy record on housing when you were in government.
He is so busy congratulating himself in the house of commons on his self declared "brilliant" video that he had the airs of a over confident teenager.
Voters are going to be really disappointed once they see that Crypto can't easily solve the housing crisis.
Gary Mason puts it in perspective.
Poilievre’s Housing Hell video offers a lousy, dime-store analysis of our housing crisis
Gary Mason ([url]https://www.theglobeandmail.com/authors/gary-mason/)National[/url] affairs columnist
Published Yesterday Updated 6 hours ago
"For instance, Mr. Poilievre zeroes in on high government borrowing between 2020 and 2022. This led to inflation, which led to higher interest rates, which led to higher borrowing costs. He doesn’t mention that those years were beset by a pandemic, during which governments worldwide were borrowing to help those who’d lost their jobs.
He doesn’t mention that if it weren’t for those government cheques, thousands wouldn’t have been able to pay their mortgages or their rents. Many would have lost their homes. No, the federal Conservative Leader doesn’t touch that one with a 10-foot pole.
In Mr. Poilievre’s world, the most complex issues have the simplest solutions – other politicians are just too stupid to see them. For instance, he will get rid of the “gatekeepers” driving up housing costs – bureaucrats working in cities and municipalities who impose unnecessary and costly conditions on new home construction.
His common-sense solution? Withhold federal infrastructure grants until construction is complete and people are living in the homes. Why didn’t anyone think of that before? Well, maybe because cities and municipalities need that grant money to build the infrastructure necessary to build new homes. If you withhold it, it will only reduce the number of homes that can get built.
Andy Yan, director of Simon Fraser University’s City Program and one of the country’s top urban analysts, told me it’s hard not to be impressed with the quality of the Housing Hell video. It smartly focuses on the complete decoupling of house prices with income, he said. But it is clearly an outsider’s view of the situation, one that ignores complexities that can only be seen and appreciated from the inside of the housing conundrum.
“The video is someone offering simple answers to intractable problems,” Mr. Yan told me. “I would say: Beware of false idols.”
The video has been viewed more than four million times as of this writing. Many of those who’ve watched it are, I’m sure, people whose dream of owning a home seems to become more distant by the day.
The type of people whose desperation might make them gullible enough to believe Pierre Poilievre ([url]https://www.theglobeandmail.com/topics/pierre-poilievre/)has[/url] all the answers, and that he will help them to live happily ever after."
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