“Homelessness & Affordability Crisis”

Record numbers of international students coming to Canada is making the already inflated cost of housing worse, said Steve Pomeroy, a policy research consultant and senior research fellow at Carleton University’s centre for urban research.

The biggest strain on Canada’s housing market, he said, isn’t only the rising rate of permanent residents, with more than 400,000 permanent residents in 2022, and the Liberal government determined to hit 500,000 a year in the next couple of years. Those coming here seeking temporary residence, either temporary foreign workers or international students, are fuelling rental price increases.

Related … ‘Something doesn’t seem right here’: International students’ revoked college admissions cast spotlight on Ontario’s public-private partnerships

This week’s news that admission offers to 504 international students have been revoked by an Ontario college is likely to cast a spotlight once more onto partnerships between Ontario’s public and private colleges.

The students in question had been admitted months ago by Timmins-based Northern College to study at Pures College, its private partner in Toronto.

The revoking of the admission offers comes before a new rule takes effect next month that will cap international student enrolment under such partnerships.

There doesn’t seem to be a day that goes by when people aren’t talking about housing, or the lack of it. Or the fact that in this country it is so damn expensive.

Everyone has a solution, but no one has the solution. It’s all the gatekeepers’ fault, says federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre. More supply will help bring down prices, insists Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, echoing what so many maintain is the answer.

An interesting piece discussing the many & various fees developers must pay to build a condo.

While there is lots of blame to go round Trudeau’s unwarranted mass immigration scam remains the primary culprit. That alone creates stress throughout our institutions and infrastructure.

“If people are asking us to slash, what does that mean? Does that mean slashing the skilled workers that we need to actually build those houses? Slash family reunification, which can be devastating for the mental health and well-being of the families that are already here?”

We need to legalize the Tar and Feathering of idiots like Miller.

Rent in Canada hit a new high in July as students prepped for school, buyers sidelined: report

A new report says Canada’s average asking rent reached a new record in July.

Data from Rentals.ca and research firm Urbanation says the average asking rent totalled $2,078 in the month.

That total is 8.9 per cent higher than a year earlier, making it the fastest pace of growth over the past three months.

h/t Osumashi

For two months, Amanda Lease and her four-year-old dog Krue have been living in her pickup truck — sleeping in underground parkades and in front of friends’ houses in Calgary.

Lease can’t find a rental she can afford, let alone one that accepts pets, she says.

“The housing crisis in this city has put us in this position,” she said.

“Even if you find something in your price range that will allow an animal, they hold bidding wars and take whoever’s got the highest budget.”

Mayor Eric Adams is finally throwing in the towel.

He admits that the current (non) policy on illegal immigration is a disaster. He doesn’t go far enough, but his capitulation on the issue reveals a more profound truth: “sanctuary” policies were always a fraud.

I live in Toronto which coincedentally is also a sanctuary city facing its own imposed “homeless migrant crisis” and I have no empathy at all for the self-destructive fools who voted for Chow.