To avoid any suburban sprawl, city bylaws also need to change. We must make it easier for vacant lots to be turned into 3-4 apt walk ups of a good size by allowing for single staircases access. This would make the home design better, larger & faster to build.
Those 'little homes' were actually larger inside than one might think.
I'd go back to one of those in a heartbeat now I'm older with less desire to clean/fix/repair/maintain.
Maybe w even less room 'upstairs' and ALL ground floor bungalow.
I love that you're tuning your message based on comments coming in here.
We need to avoid 3P. Period.
We need to build and hire a department of the best, most experienced planners, builders and craftspeople. It's the only way to keep this great plan from failing of corruption as 3P always does.
My province has done quite a bit. Stopped ugly shortages from growing due to corporate housing buys (and stopped assholes in their tracks from other provinces, buying here just to rent out).
No info on this yet. This policy's only addressing one half of the issue - the availability of homes, regardless of price. Hoping that we hear about a second half on your exact point later on. Something to write the MP about, regardless.
The policy paper itself is annoyingly vague on the topic. It does mention relief for home-buying loans and a carve-out for low income homes, but it's not clear. I get it, it's a platform document, you don't want it to be byzantine, but I want to know a lot more about it.
Yeah. It's unfortunately more a provincial level thing to my understanding, though. Liberals are pushing on what they can get their hands on - drastically increase the supply of low cost housing.
Your father, Robert, was an Indian day school principal, acting director of the Department of Indian Affairs for Alberta, and life-long apologist for residential schools.
You were raised by this man. Will you keep ignoring APTN's interview request?
After WW2, families were happy to live in 1100 square foot bungalows. Many of us in #CanadaSky were raised in those homes. Show a youngster today those smaller-sized homes and see what the reaction is. Expectations are a large problem. #cdnpoli
I don’t agree with this.
20 years olds want to get into a home with their partners and make babies. I can’t speak for everyone but my sister for exemple purchased half a semi and she is very happy and got a her first baby last month. I really think family it’s the main motivation.
Did Canada have “Levittowns”?
The 1950’s price was ~$15K
Current price ~$700K
(All heavily renovated)
ANNUAL PROPERTY TAXES
~$17,000
(Long Island NY is known for good schools & high property taxes.)
Don't tell me it's not true. Ask any realtor trying to find a home for a young person/persons. A small home? A home that needs work? Forget it. Of course there are exceptions to every rule, but it's not "demonizinng" - it's fact.
Again untrue. My daughter and son-in-law just bought a house. About 1300 square feet and an unfinished basement. All their friends own modest homes. They were actually looking for a fixer upper but couldn’t find one reasonably priced.
It isn’t the exception. My daughter had to save for 7 years
This is uniformed nonsense. Most people under 40 are renting. How much space do you think we are getting in that deal? Owning anything is an upgrade, you don't understand people in general.
Thats true. I dont mean to pick on the younger generation, but the younger ones today seem to want the biggest,the best and newest of everything all at once and we all know it just doesnt work that way,it takes time and years to accumulate, unless youre born with a silver spoon in your mouth.
This isn’t true. You can pick on younger generations all you want, but at least have an informed opinion.
Where are you getting this idea that young people scoff at smaller homes?
Small homes are out of reach for most young people.
I couldn’t afford the home I was raised in.
We bought 1st home in '80' it was almost 3000 sq ft. Our second home 900 sq feet. Lived there 32 years. A young family bought it, moving from 3500. sq.ft. They were going to put on an addition. A year later she told me she really likes how small the house is. She has no plans to change it.
Hopefully the housing crisis changed that - both of my adult children would love to be able to buy one of those wartime homes but they live in cities - need to for their jobs.
I'd love to live in a tiny home. I'm 72, disabled, depend on a small pension, and co-own my deceased parents' condo. I can't sell and move to a livable, serviced area because I can't afford what's out there. There are a lot of us trapped in my situation. Affordable housing isn't being built.
I don’t think you know much about young people. Most people would be happy to get on the property ladder. My mom’s 900sq ft home sold over asking before it hit the market. They were younger. Most younger people don’t want the upkeep/utility costs of a large home.
I’m afraid I must disagree with you. I have three adult children still living with me at home and the average house price in my region is about $800,000.
Cheapest house is about $600,000. Nobody at their age can afford to buy a house.
And one bedroom apartments are over $2000 a month.
Andy, those home prices are the same here in Hamilton, ON. Our housing values shot up starting in the 2000s bc Torontonians bought up lots of homes and commuted to T.O., then immigration affected housing.
We need lots of small homes again.
A 1,200 sq.ft. home is *half* the materials of a McMansion.
The expectation is the younger generation want a larger home, which costs more to build. Part of the problem is developer's are not building smaller homes. They say the younger generation don't want them!! Is that true?
From high school (1971) to marriage at 25 I rarely lived alone. Usually, there were 3 of us sharing a 2 bedroom apartment so our costs were split. If I lived alone I lived in basement suits where I shared a bathroom. Buying a home at 20-25 wasn't an option then either.
You've hit on another large expectation. I did real estate deals in law firms from the late '70s to the early 2000s and only started seeing younger buyers in the '90s. Even then, it was highly unusual to see someone in their 20s buying a home (and most downpayments were gifts from parents).
I live in a 1950's small rancher that two children were raised to adulthood in. If I sell whoever buys it will probably demolish it to build bigger which doesn't help the younger generation. My nephew and niece would never live in a house this small let alone raise kids in it. Different values.
When we moved off the farm we moved into large row housing. Was the best time of my childhood (apart from living on a farm). Tonnes of kids to be friends, alleyways we played hockey on. We had 1 TV, 1 family car. Post-WWII expectations were reasonable. You don't start out with everything.
Build more housing and drive the cost down, as Mark Carney has pledged to do.
Regulate REITs, who drive the cost of rent through the roof.
Implement UBI, so people don’t have to choose between rent and food. Every study proves that UBI more than pays for itself in terms of economic benefits.
I might have misunderstood your comment, I thought you were disagreeing with the PMs plan but I think it was directed elsewhere. I agree with your ideas wholeheartedly 😊
I’m an addiction medicine doc and the number one thing that would improve mental health and addictions in Canada is affordable housing. That is not something I can prescribe. Really hope Carney pulls this off.
A big issue that needs to be addressed.... transportation for trades. There are many training programs and jobs but no way to get there, particularly in rural communities. Ask any of the rural schools or employment centers. ....
My 19yr old son is working on setting up a non-profit to help get these people into a reliable vehicle just so that they can work. It is a horrible huge problem that even he sees especially with young trades starting out. I hope projects like this will get assistance to grow to help others.
Mister Prime Minister, may I ask what your government plans to do in terms of the rental market? Landlords are gouging, and realistically there are Canadians who will never be able to afford to buy because they can't work as much due to things like disability. How are you going to help them?
All across the country, people with disabilities are living below the poverty line because places aren't willing to hire them because they don't move as fast, and disability services barely cover the bare basics. Affordable housing needs to apply to renters as well as buyers.
Ohhhh don't even get me started on what Smith wants to do to AISH. As a disabled Albertan myself, I have been up in arms about it since I learned about it! And this is on top of the already existing AISH policy that restricts how much you can work while recieving AISH to barely part time.
I'm so sorry.
Severe disability is terrible in & of itself, but forcing ppl to STAY in Legislated Poverty potentially forever while gaslighting all citizens about how all their needs are 'covered' is unbelievably selfish.
Virtually everyone will suffer disability eventually; this WILL be THEM too!
And then we get people being angry at us for getting "handouts" and calling us "lazy" for needing gov assistance... it takes a toll on mental health from so many different angles. Like I want to work but those same people won't hire the disabled. It's an endless trap that makes you wanna check out.
Poilievre has literally no qualifications to be Prime Minister, no achievements in his 20 years as an MP, no great legislation he wrote or passed, nothing but his failed attempt to weaken democracy & his compliance agreement w Canada Elections.
PP should be nothing more than a backbencher, not PM.
He should be ousted I don’t want my tax dollars paying his salary for any longer. He hasn’t contributed one good thing to Canadian society in 20yrs. Matter of fact he’s voted against anything that would, to hell with him I want him gone!!
My conservative neighborhood has nothing but Liberal signs everywhere.
I did ground work weeks ago reminding everyone of Harper promising us 33 billion in Ship building & giving it ALL to Vancouver & Quebec. Showed them Carney’s commitment & suggested we give him a shot 🤘
Build mainly small-sized apartments, 1b1b or 2b2b, so that singles, DINK families and families of three can buy basic housing at low prices. Rich people can still buy luxury houses, which is reasonable, but most working-class people need affordable houses.
PM Carney: Many of us have savings in TFSAs that now earn little interest & bleaker rates on the way. Is there a way to set up a similar savings vehicle that will see 100% of our funds going towards home building - but with security of savings bonds, tax exempt, & higher interest rates than banks?
I hope you have a plan for the most vulnerable Canadians, those who will not qualify to be on the property ladder. Out communities need a Wheelhouse model versus the Continuum of Housing. Everyone deserves a place to call home.
What would be nice and no politician seems to care about is the homeless crisis we have and how it should be fixed. Nobody should be homeless in a country like ours and this is something that seems overlooked by every politician. It's as if homeless people don't matter.
Supply and demand. Landlords will gouge the shit out of people when the demand is high. Once demand cools, supply increases and prices drop. I’ve been in real estate my entire life. I’ve seen in happen multiple times. Landlords are greedy mofos and they love a market with no supply.
The policy says they're going to be encouraging public ownership of affordable units, seems like rental is in there was well? Not entirely clear. There's language in there about shelters and other subsidies as well. Worth going to read the actual document.
Yes but that's not going to stop landlords from gouging like they are now. There needs to be legistation put in place to put a cap on that sort of greed.
Yeah, Carney seems to be avoiding that. It feels like the idea is to force a larger supply of properties into the market (including rental markets) in order to drive down prices.
Honestly very Canadian. The comparison to wartime efforts is apt.
I hope he addresses this itself like he has here for home buyers. A 1b1b bare essential apartment costing over 2k a month is absolutely disgusting and something has to be done about this predatory system
The policy paper itself is annoyingly vague. It mentions a lot of these issues tangentially, but isn't clear on what, specifically, they're going to do about the rental market. I think a lot of this is made more complex by it being a provincial thing, too.
Landlords can’t gauge when you have an appropriate vacancy rate. Remember when landlords used to offer things like first month rent free, referral fees for referring your friends to the building. It will take time but if we build, competition stops gauging!
Yeah, a lot of issues will start going away when the unit availability goes up - and there *is* a lot of language in the platform paper about ways to expand rental units. On crown land, even. This is a pretty monumental shift.
You were governer of the Bank in England, you've seen how we messed housing up. We gave into the nimbys and stopped building houses where they were needed, then made the planning laws so restrictive and rigid that it pushed the price up and the time to took. Dont follow our example.
Similar in Canada. Permitting is slow and inconsistent bc it's at the municipal level. That's a huge bottleneck that is out of the feds' purview, but feds are trying to work with the provinces to put pressure on city govs to fix this. 🤞
VOTING matters, ESPECIALLY, after seeing what our friends & neighbours are going through in the US. If ANTI-voters stay home on election day, it won’t just be Maple MAGA who will elect the Governor of the 51st state. @lilatheofficial.bsky.social @briantylercohen.bsky.social #CarneyForCanada 🇨🇦❤️🇺🇸
THIS is a GENERATIONAL INITIATIVE to deal with the housing crisis in Canada or ANY country. If we don’t vote #CarneyForCanada it will NEVER happen. Poilivre & Harper gave up 800,000 rental units to developers & corporations. @daviddoel.bsky.social @beckhamliberal.bsky.social @meidastouch.com
Well Poilievre isn't about to build cheaper housing that will bring the price of his own real estate investments down. He has already down voted everything that helps Canadians.
Where has our 🇨🇦MSM been for 10 yrs? While PM Trudeau stick handled us through Trump 1.0 & COVID, all I recall hearing is Poilivre’s whining that the Sky is Falling & “Canada is broken”. Did the media EVER say anything about this? Ever? They’re quite demoralizing of late so I watch, @meidastouch.com
This what happens when previous PM’s like Harper allowed American corporations to buy up almost ALLour media. Americans own 90% of ALL OUR MEDIA! And those owners are right wing GOP supporters
Building more homes is great. But it is essential that the government enact and enforce laws that prevent corporations, and buyer groups from owning mutliple homes.
Condo fees must be reeled in.
Popular place for immigrants to settle
Drug money laundered through Real Estate
Foreign ownership w/ no occupancy
Speculation
High approval costs
High building cost
Slow govt approvals
How about actually bringing down the cost of homes. Used to live in Manitoba and a two bedroom barely livable house went for nearly 200k. Now you can nothing for less than 300k. The market needs to come down from this stupid pricing so people with a living wage can afford them.
Building new homes isn’t much of a solution when they usually start at 500k. A bigger problem are those controlling the prices don’t want to lower them as to keep their profits high.
They're specifically building low-income and subsidized housing. There aren't any mansions in their plans. Many of them are multi-unit condos and duplexes. These are designed to actually address the problem. Worth looking at on their website if you're honestly concerned.
We still need regulations on the investor class, or corporations will just buy up properties again and inflate. More supply alone won't solve it like it did in the past bc of the investment landscape now (incl house flippers, short term rental greedos etc).
@mark-carney.bsky.social Don't make the single focus mistakes. It can't just be housing, it has to be an interconnected plan. If you don't put in the high speed transit and interconnect communities you won't have the density to do it efficiently required later. (Part 1 of multiple)
Proper interconnection of communities, not just with roads but reliable public transit with hub/node type development allows 2 way travel. Kanata is an example of that as a failure. Instead of creating 2 way fast reliable transit it was 1 way allowing downtown government job access. (Part 2 of)
The lack of 2 way transit impeded the access of Kanata's high tech business for people who didn't live in the immediate vicinity like the downtown core and increased car congestion.
Don't just build bedroom communities make sure there are options for local employment like knowledge workers.
I totally agree, smaller homes are great starter homes. Affordable and get you into the market. As time goes on you can sell and upgrade. These 3000 square foot homes help no one.
Exactly. When people today cry they can’t afford a home, they’re not thinking condo apt or townhouse. For young people/couples that’s an affordable start to get into the market. Nobody talks about that anymore.
These modular homes sound neat. Ottawa has many vet homes still standing.
Yes. I think it’s the best plan I’ve heard yet. There is so many war time houses still around. They are great for starter homes and for retirement homes.
Those little war time houses sell for 350,000 in my neighbourhood. I love them. I wish they were affordable though. I hope we can build lots of nice small affordable homes again.
There is a difference between ‘wartime’ and ‘victory’ houses. Wartime were very small and are still going strong today.
My dad was a WWll vet and I grew up in a Victory house. Built after the war. Three bedrooms, one bathroom and a full basement. No dining room.
It was great.
Indeed. The 3K square foot homes don't help anyone. I say this as someone who is a blue-collar unionized worker and seeing these unnecessarily large homes being built really doesn't help regarding affordability for the younger ppl who may or may not want to have roommates to split the rent.
please don’t take offence, I was not talking about multigenerational nor was I talking about those that can afford having a large home. My point was for those starting out, who have limited funds and cannot get into the real estate market any other way. These small houses give them that opportunity.
I certainly don’t take offense I agree with you. The bigger homes don’t make sense for most of the population. The consumer didn’t have a choice, the builders made that decision for us. The high prices of older starter homes proves it is what people what.
I agree, and in some municipalities in our area small homes are banned because they do not garner enough taxes. If you are not rich you are shut out of the market.
I disagree. I dont think big houses are an issue. I dont think more houses are needed. I think less corporate and foreign owned is necessary. There are tons of airbnb and foreign owned investment properties that should be owned by canadian citizens as actual housing.
No one is saying you can’t choose to have a large house to support and house your family. It’s just not practical for most people starting out or downsizing. The large houses as an only option is how me got in this mess.
The policy doc on their site has details. They'll both be developing existing lands and putting a fair chunk of money towards new developments. Crown land also on the table in places. All medium density stuff. It's not bad!
Almost every kid I grew up with was either raised in the left over, very old farm houses sprinkled about in the east Vancouver neighborhood or War housing built for returning veterans. Houses just like the ones Carney is suggesting and there are many such neighbourhoods all over East Van!
Know that more than half of us living downstairs from you in the meth-lab apartment are already - to put it lightly - envious of your leadership. Oh, and if you can annex Michigan that'd be great too. #wishiwascanadian
You should copy-paste the policy paper on this and just hand it to AOC and other actually-vocal representatives. Can they implement it right now? No. But it'd give people something to hope for, and that's honestly what people need down there right now. Keep your elbows up!
Immigration's unfortunately not easy to go through in Canada, we've got pretty strict laws on that. But if it were up to me, I'd put you on the list for a nice little cottage by a lake somewhere. Stress down there's unbelievable. Keep your elbows up!
I don't blame you, you have to keep dangerous elements out. They’re bringing drugs, they’re bringing crime, they’re rapists, and some I assume are good people.
I hear that. Really hoping y'all can get some new walkable developments like the Liberals appear to be planning here. Y'all deserve it! Just keep pushing, it'll get better.
it would have been so great if harper/poilievre cons hadn't sold off 800,000 affordable housing units, we'd be buidling more now, instead of trying to fix harper/poilievre mistakes AGAIN! Thank you for moving us forward! #VoteLiberal PP isn't going to build for reg people, he's a mcmansion guy
I pay over a thousand dollars in rent for a studio apartment with no stove, or fire/emergency exit, because I can’t find anything cheaper. What are you gonna do for renters, and those on ODSP?
❤️ Fortunately this time there will be no asbestos and the new homes will built for purpose and the positive future of the companies and Canadian citizens
And what are you going to do to invest in social housing stock and subsidies- we need more rgi housing not just more homes for sale- none of this will make housing accessible to the homeless or those on government assistance or the working poor
$6 billion will go towards rapidly building deeply affordable housing, supportive housing, Indigenous housing, and shelters. BCH will direct $2 billion of this amount to build new student and seniors housing, in partnership with provinces and
territories. (1/4)
We will immediately develop homelessness reduction targets with every province and territory to inform Housing First investments, improve access to treatment, and end encampments (2/4)
We will facilitate the conversion of existing structures into affordable housing units by reducing the tax liability for private owners of multi-purpose rental when they sell their building to a non-profit operator, land trust, or non-profit acquisition fund (3/4)
-- so this reads to me as most of what the federal level can do. Rent controls and other specifics are provincial. The paper does say that they'll be working with other levels of govt as much as possible, but... well, I'm in Alberta, so I don't see much of that happening here.
Canada stop freezing your azzes off, join the U.S. Come on down. Hell you will be able to vote in the U.S. elections. Maybe even have the 1st Canadian U.S. president. This will totally F up the globalist agenda. They will not get North America. For those that want to freeze their azzes off, do it. ✌️
Fix the economy and more homes will be affordable. The problem is the Value of Currency. If someone bought what is said to be an affordable house they could multiply their money selling it in a few years. 2nd building so called affordable homes create ghettos. This is well documented in history.
My Canada #loghome built in 2017 for just $256K. Today, the same kit runs about $315K + $55K for windows, mainly due to rising costs of aluminum,soffit, fascia, metal roofing, and insulation. But 8”x10” white pine logs are still $14/lin.ft. in Eastern Quebec. Time for #CMHC to regulate these builds!
Beauty of it, is that to build half of the house all you need is a powerful impact drill, 12” log boss screws, a chainsaw and 4 gallon of gasoline. All the log walls were up in just 4 days for 1,750sqft house + 1 crane day for the trusts + 1 day for the windows + 1 day for the sheet metal roof.
I live right by a neighbourhood with those war houses. Lots are still there to this day. Fun A-frame houses. That initiative really set a lot of Canadians up for success. For rentals, I hope you get non-profits to run them. Like Norfolk here in Calgary. Life savers.
I have a CMHC plan book from the 1950s that belonged to my Dad. He used it to build small houses on Burke Road in what is now western Ottawa, which used to be Nepean Township.
Nobody needs McMansions! Where this started becoming a “thing” is mind boggling! I’d just like a regular home that’s not a nightmare to clean or heat! 😂
Though there's nothing wrong with renting property, it becomes an issue when you pretend to be the savior that will make housing more affordable, as if you aren't actively keeping housing behind a paywall yourself.
When building please prioritize sustainability. Sweden has a ROBUST district heating network in place. It utilises waste from various industries to heat homes. It’s sustainable and affordable for consumers.
District heating! I wish we had that here. I don't think the plans account for that, but the plan does talk about redeveloping urban crown land. It could go in there so easily. So easily! We really need to do this.
Absolutely agreed on all points. We have no reason to *not* put this in. I expect that they won't, and will say "we need to get this deployed now, no time to engineer that solution" but it's not true. They just don't want to cut into the profits of utility companies.
If you know people who lived on a reserve in Alberta in the 1990's, then you are explicitly aware of the conditions that people were forced to "live" in. And why.
The same conditions that many First Nations in Canada "live" in today.
You are welcome to read my writing to understand my thinking.
Even what they showed in the video showed a wide range of homes - duplexes, apartment style, single family detached. Plus, if we're talking something like the victory homes, many of those are still standing today in my city. Good investment in Canadian businesses to create.
I would be happy to take a list of each of those builds, plans and funding approved, and see what is possible in any given city or municipality in Canada.
And then I wouldn't build any of them, because they don't meet the standard to survive heatwaves.
I mean, it looks like they're taking into account climate zones as part of the building plans, regional variations to meet requirements. I think I've seen some builds that look much like them already going up where I live. Definitely tiny homes though.
The problem is that homeowners don’t want more housing. The scarcity keeps prices up. They bought high and don’t want a market full of houses to bring the prices down. This is a big voter block
The designs they've come out with are almost entirely multifamily. Still low rise, but much denser than your typical SFH. Multiplexes, townhomes and such. The major cities of course need denser forms but that policy has to come from the local/provincial level.
In other words, you're going to give money to the big bosses and unions and further screw construction workers who've been doing nothing but taking hit after hit over the last decade. Just say no to fascism, people!
Prime Minister Mark Carney will build new, affordable Canadian homes. Carney is smart and capable. He will work hard to make life better for all Canadians. Carney for the win!
Many of these still line Toronto neighbourhoods, some have additions, some simply maintained. This would be a great catalyst in so many ways, and solve many problems. #elbowsup
none of the prefabs are ready to help Canadians through climate change heatwaves or floods. We can't build 20th century solutions for 21st century problems
Any details? Unlikely to have geothermal installs. 5m down it's 12C. There's every building's air conditioning. Heat pumps? Every building rooftop must be white to reflect summer sun. A black roof absorbs heat in summer and dissipated heat in winter, you want the opposite. Also triple pane windows
I was 15 learned about geothermal. Never understood why people didn’t insist on it. Retired frm military 24 y later I built my 1st house. I installed geothermal. Best thing I did. 22deg heat and air conditioning year round. 21 years later still going strong and saving me thousands year after year.
Well done! I've always wanted to try it. Now in my mid life I'll never afford a home but thank you! Only thing that makes sense is it would take away monthly payments to nuclear white elephants that'll never be paid down, in Ontario at least. (insert local monopoly). House should be baseload power
the objective is quality public homes at reasonable cost not on private capital profits of as cheap as possible. Also this builds baseload across each home and neighbourhood cutting municipal development costs not being factored. That way that isn't a buck being passed to cities
Also could be mandatory solar panels and heat pumps for every building. Set the standards now b/c developers couldn't care less @mark-carney.bsky.social
Admittedly I don’t know much about it, but I’ve heard great things about Australia’s passenger rail system. And if they can do it there, we can do it here!
I can't handle these common sense policies based on things that were already successful. I'm too accustomed to politicians spouting slogans. I feel like I'm being pranked 😂😭
The National Post is blabbering on about "Soviet style housing" 🙄
Conservatives: We need more housing!
Liberals: ok, let's build more affordable housing,use Canadian resources and create a ton of jobs while we're at it
Conservatives: Not like that 😭
The speed of getting them built because there are only so many models, that they're cheaper to live in because of better insulation, consistent with what we need here in The Great White North.
There's bi-facial solar that collects sun from both sides & heats up to melt snow on it. Very cool.
So fab.
But it absolutely, absolutely cannot ,must not include bank "bail out" like I said , we are the 99.9 and not the society of dummies they were betting on us to be
No bank bail-outs in the policy. It's very developer-side, but we sorta need some of that - we have to make incentives for developers to build smaller, cheaper homes. This will address that, and really fast, too.
My (admittedly non-expert) understanding is that a lot of the issue here comes from overly restrictive zoning. I would love to see relaxation on zoning laws allowing for mixed-use residential with commercial, and even light industrial.
From the policy paper, "Building on the success of the Housing Accelerator Fund, we will further reduce housing bureaucracy, zoning restrictions, and other red tape to have builders navigate one housing market, instead of thirteen."
So yeah, zoning restriction relaxation and unification is in.
That said, if we really can increase the supply of housing, I'm all for it.
It's refreshing to hear someone in government even addressing this crisis at all.
"Building on the success of the Housing Accelerator Fund, we will further reduce housing bureaucracy, zoning restrictions, and other red tape to have builders navigate one housing market, instead of thirteen."
I believe they've done most of that already.... with some stragglers and refusers still left.
I recommend a Canadian TFSA fund that directs our savings into home-building in Canada. Same flexible terms, same tax exemption, but with security of better-than-bank rates, & backed by Bank of Canada. 🤫
You're going to need to upset a lot of rich NIMBYs in order to create effective housing boom, and so far very few governments, even local governments, in the Anglosphere have had the courage to do this.
Just make sure they actually get sold to the right people. People who need homes not investors.Don’t just toss them on the market like Poilievre wants to.That solves nothing. Build a mix of homes, rentals and co-ops and keep them out of the hands of investors. If that means nationalizing the sale
Build with Habitat for humanity and that problem is solved. Imagine receiving a x7 tax deduction for a Habitat donation. Imagine giving corporations who release employees to volunteer for builds a payroll reduction credit. Get the land to build on and get all hands on deck to build
We MUST DEMAND our local officials to STOP investor purchases and influence sellers to investigate who is REALLY buying their homes!
INVESTOR SLIME kno greedy sellers love excessive cash; STOP THEM!
We Need Our Homes!!
@voiceofsandiego.org
of them so be it. Building a huge number of homes without ensuring people in need get first crack at them and can afford them and know that if they can’t there’s other options they can afford, is how this has to work. Otherwise it just creates a feeding frenzy for investors.
Construction productivity is lower now than it was decades ago. We have gotten worse at building. We need to solve this problem to end the housing crisis.
Build up, not out. Don't make the same mistake the US has for decades. Urban sprawl is unsustainable. Medium density cities that are walkable, have public parks and good public transportation and quality residences is a better approach in the long run. And tax short term property flippers 100%
So interesting to see the different designs for different regions. The Alberta designs will look odd to small town folk but pretty normal for Edmontonians.
The designs they've come out with are almost entirely multifamily. Still low rise, but much denser than your typical SFH. Multiplexes, townhomes and such. The major cities of course need denser forms but that policy has to come from the local/provincial level.
And they need to consider putting in grey water systems, district heating. We have to build sustainably and put in the infrastructure for it before a building goes on any land.
Yes. The goal should be to build a small town/city that's fully sustainable. Once that model works, just replicate it. But don't dig or build anything until that model has been vetted to be both environmentally and fiscally sustainable.
You won't get anywhere if you don't listen to the people. We have tons of housing. Its all owned by corporations and foreigners. Or both. We need federal level ordered rent control and we need to limit corporate and foreign buyers. We DONT need more greedy developers and realtors.
Wish levels of government would get it together and bring more hempcrete products into building codes and regulations. Highly renewable, mold and fire resistant.
I was thinking same thing, in his book he talks about 3D printing homes. In 1/3, the time than conventional homes. It would be good to see them made out of hempcrete.
I think it’s really important that there be apartments (regular apartment units - not condos!) that can be purchased by individuals.
Where I grew up in southeastern Ontario, it is not possible to buy an apartment because they are ALL owned by some land holding company (eg Homestead).
Just send us some good doctors and nurses because we're short on both. Some may like working in our smaller towns and communities where life is a helluva lot saner than living in the U.S. under a Trump government. Some new doctors even negotiated a house for their families - rent free. 😘
Until Provincial Home Builders Associations quit treating Carpenters/Framers like crap, you’ll have no professionals putting up the shells to a level to be proud of.
Start with not calling framers UNSKILLED LABOUR.
Then, quit cutting their payout to the lowest part of a home’s cost.
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Increase supply to alleviate the demand to help house people and create an affordable market
Looking forward to seeing this initiative roll out
I'd go back to one of those in a heartbeat now I'm older with less desire to clean/fix/repair/maintain.
Maybe w even less room 'upstairs' and ALL ground floor bungalow.
We need to avoid 3P. Period.
We need to build and hire a department of the best, most experienced planners, builders and craftspeople. It's the only way to keep this great plan from failing of corruption as 3P always does.
It’s now $2.1mil
Our wages have not gone up 24 times what they were in that time
If we can do this, my mother and Grandmothers heart will rest so much easier.
We don’t have to destroy the earth and their inheritance.
You were raised by this man. Will you keep ignoring APTN's interview request?
Your refusal and your silence speak volumes.
20 years olds want to get into a home with their partners and make babies. I can’t speak for everyone but my sister for exemple purchased half a semi and she is very happy and got a her first baby last month. I really think family it’s the main motivation.
The 1950’s price was ~$15K
Current price ~$700K
(All heavily renovated)
ANNUAL PROPERTY TAXES
~$17,000
(Long Island NY is known for good schools & high property taxes.)
Signed, Gen X
It isn’t the exception. My daughter had to save for 7 years
Where are you getting this idea that young people scoff at smaller homes?
Small homes are out of reach for most young people.
I couldn’t afford the home I was raised in.
Let folks make up their own minds, everyone is different and so many will be happy to have their own place and yard.
Cheapest house is about $600,000. Nobody at their age can afford to buy a house.
And one bedroom apartments are over $2000 a month.
We need lots of small homes again.
A 1,200 sq.ft. home is *half* the materials of a McMansion.
Even just a starter home.
They don’t care about size, they just want a place to be able to live on their own or with a partner.
Developers just want to maximize profits. I wouldn’t trust them.
When my young adult sister got her home, she got a baby a year after. She felt finally comfortable and safe to have one.
Regulate REITs, who drive the cost of rent through the roof.
Implement UBI, so people don’t have to choose between rent and food. Every study proves that UBI more than pays for itself in terms of economic benefits.
And “giving up” is not one of them.
best exemple of unity, solidarity, community.
the people first.
that's the true value of a country.
the people.
https://liberal.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/292/2025/03/Mark-Carneys-Liberals-unveil-Canadas-most-ambitious-housing-plan-since-the-Second-World-War.pdf
Taking $200 from the MOST vulnerable citizens is just GROSS.
Next: the extreme benefit reduction from it's initial proposal. Disabled live 40% BELOW poverty rate!
Severe disability is terrible in & of itself, but forcing ppl to STAY in Legislated Poverty potentially forever while gaslighting all citizens about how all their needs are 'covered' is unbelievably selfish.
Virtually everyone will suffer disability eventually; this WILL be THEM too!
It works far better than more rules.
Anything by conservatives
PP should be nothing more than a backbencher, not PM.
He's nothing more than a bullhorn for Harper and Manning.
My conservative neighborhood has nothing but Liberal signs everywhere.
I did ground work weeks ago reminding everyone of Harper promising us 33 billion in Ship building & giving it ALL to Vancouver & Quebec. Showed them Carney’s commitment & suggested we give him a shot 🤘
http://www.housingcatalogue.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/
😩
#NeverVoteConservative
#ElbowsUp
#PaperboyPoilievre
That organization has blocked so many younger couples from buying older houses.
This is what uninformed Canadians need to know
Keep the conversations going on all platforms
https://liberal.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/292/2025/03/Mark-Carneys-Liberals-unveil-Canadas-most-ambitious-housing-plan-since-the-Second-World-War.pdf
Go to Carney’s profile and scroll down to find the link to the landing page
It is comprehensive
Honestly very Canadian. The comparison to wartime efforts is apt.
I sorta understand why - that'd be a different policy, different area of law. Something to write your MP about, for sure. I'm in the same boat.
Condo fees must be reeled in.
Housing should not be a commodity.
Not helping anyone if they are half a million dollars.
Those are questions that will need to be addressed
https://liberal.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/292/2025/03/Mark-Carneys-Liberals-unveil-Canadas-most-ambitious-housing-plan-since-the-Second-World-War.pdf
We had dicks from BC buying purely for rental. It’s not just corporations it’s also greedy dicks.
Worked.
BC is a unique problem for housing prices
Lower mainland has finite space to build on
Popular place for immigrants to settle
Drug money laundered through Real Estate
Foreign ownership w/ no occupancy
Speculation
High approval costs
High building cost
Slow govt approvals
He's the right person for these challenging times.
https://liberal.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/292/2025/03/Mark-Carneys-Liberals-unveil-Canadas-most-ambitious-housing-plan-since-the-Second-World-War.pdf
Don't just build bedroom communities make sure there are options for local employment like knowledge workers.
These modular homes sound neat. Ottawa has many vet homes still standing.
My dad was a WWll vet and I grew up in a Victory house. Built after the war. Three bedrooms, one bathroom and a full basement. No dining room.
It was great.
https://liberal.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/292/2025/03/Mark-Carneys-Liberals-unveil-Canadas-most-ambitious-housing-plan-since-the-Second-World-War.pdf
Protests are happening everywhere across the US today. Join in, and make it real for the states, too!
I'm spreading the word though
Building more and subsidizing companies that build?
I hope it's not just making the biggest realty companies richer.
I like capitlism.
I don't like robber baron Oligarchs.
$6 billion will go towards rapidly building deeply affordable housing, supportive housing, Indigenous housing, and shelters. BCH will direct $2 billion of this amount to build new student and seniors housing, in partnership with provinces and
territories. (1/4)
https://youtu.be/7Nw6qyyrTeI?si=vPuKl_gNFj7NiGju
Knowing where we get the best bang for our buck is a reasonable beginning.
We need city building further north.
We are among the best.
It's just beautiful; you must be so proud.
https://liberal.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/292/2025/03/Mark-Carneys-Liberals-unveil-Canadas-most-ambitious-housing-plan-since-the-Second-World-War.pdf
https://liberal.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/292/2025/03/Mark-Carneys-Liberals-unveil-Canadas-most-ambitious-housing-plan-since-the-Second-World-War.pdf
It’s the perfect opportunity to set it up when there’s no housing already there. And local industries with waste production can make extra cash.
“homes” that should not be lived in, can’t be survived in.
You can’t solve this with solutions that created the problems
Think forward. Please.
Ask @nolore.bsky.social
https://www.housingcatalogue.cmhc-schl.gc.ca
The same conditions that many First Nations in Canada "live" in today.
You are welcome to read my writing to understand my thinking.
I know those homes and those families.
I want no person to experience that. Then, or now.
I work towards that reality.
And then I wouldn't build any of them, because they don't meet the standard to survive heatwaves.
This was published in 2018 with warming data that was vastly, dangerously, short sightedly low.
400km north, in less than 75 years.
We are not building for the climate reality we're in.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-26321-8
Because it was seniors and poor people. That didn't have AC. Or water.
They died at home. Because their homes were not built to survive in.
https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2022PSSG0035-000911
Also air conditioners.
When the power goes out, you die.
The result… I would like to be hopeful but I don’t see it.
https://bsky.app/profile/proconsul.bsky.social/post/3llos5shx5c27
http://www.housingcatalogue.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/
This is such a good set of policies. Exactly what the moment calls for.
http://www.housingcatalogue.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/
https://liberal.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/292/2025/03/Mark-Carneys-Liberals-unveil-Canadas-most-ambitious-housing-plan-since-the-Second-World-War.pdf
https://liberal.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/292/2025/03/Mark-Carneys-Liberals-unveil-Canadas-most-ambitious-housing-plan-since-the-Second-World-War.pdf
https://www.hayhoehomes.com/images/pages/5%20%2D%20Optional%20Features%20List%20%28June%2010%2C%202022%291%2Epdf
http://www.housingcatalogue.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/
Imagine taking an hour to get into the GTA when I live in Peterborough.
I definitely don't fit that requirement
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Conservatives: We need more housing!
Liberals: ok, let's build more affordable housing,use Canadian resources and create a ton of jobs while we're at it
Conservatives: Not like that 😭
There's bi-facial solar that collects sun from both sides & heats up to melt snow on it. Very cool.
So fab.
https://kalesnikoff.com/
details: https://liberal.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/292/2025/03/Mark-Carneys-Liberals-unveil-Canadas-most-ambitious-housing-plan-since-the-Second-World-War.pdf
So yeah, zoning restriction relaxation and unification is in.
It's refreshing to hear someone in government even addressing this crisis at all.
https://liberal.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/292/2025/03/Mark-Carneys-Liberals-unveil-Canadas-most-ambitious-housing-plan-since-the-Second-World-War.pdf
"Building on the success of the Housing Accelerator Fund, we will further reduce housing bureaucracy, zoning restrictions, and other red tape to have builders navigate one housing market, instead of thirteen."
I recommend a Canadian TFSA fund that directs our savings into home-building in Canada. Same flexible terms, same tax exemption, but with security of better-than-bank rates, & backed by Bank of Canada. 🤫
INVESTOR SLIME kno greedy sellers love excessive cash; STOP THEM!
We Need Our Homes!!
@voiceofsandiego.org
http://www.housingcatalogue.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/
Where I grew up in southeastern Ontario, it is not possible to buy an apartment because they are ALL owned by some land holding company (eg Homestead).
Start with not calling framers UNSKILLED LABOUR.
Then, quit cutting their payout to the lowest part of a home’s cost.