🚀 go-pugleaf

liberty (liberty@vaxxine.com) wrote:

> I applaud the Conservatives for having the courage to tackle this one, as 
> we cannot afford to continue to subsidize housing at $1,000 a unit across 
> the province anymore, and we must create new incentives to bring the free 
> market back into the housing industry.

The last thing that the landlords want is a free market. They want plenty
of government support, plus the removal of rent control, before they will
agree to build new units.

To quote the master, Nick Sidor...

"What they say, grasshopper, and loudly, is:

- remove the GST on rental housing construction (subsidy from the federal
taxpayer) 

- remove rent controls

- give us more than the nearly $3 billion in shelter allowances that we now
receive from provincial taxpayer (more subsidy from the provincial taxpayer)

- remove regional development charges (that offset the cost of roads, sewers 
and parks) and

- lower municipal property taxes on rental buildings (presumably the shortfall 
would be offset by municipal taxpayers/homeowners)

Then, grasshopper, they will build new rental housing."



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Steven Meece
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