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Your chances of owning a home in Canada were already decided at birth

In today’s Canada, the cradle you’re born into increasingly dictates whether you’ll ever hold the keys to your own home. This isn’t just a market fluctuation. It’s a boiled frog phenomenon.

Incremental changes – the steady rise in home prices, gradual policy shifts and slow-moving supply constraints – went largely unchallenged. By the time the severity of the crisis was recognized, many prospective homeowners were already cooked.

An interesting article marred by the author’s omission of mass immigration as the primary cause of Canada’s housing crisis.

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