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  • twopi@lemmy.catoCanada@lemmy.ca•Are ‘mom-and-pop’ investors pricing out first-time homebuyers?English
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    8 months ago

    It is not an analogy. That’s just math.

    I’d like you to show the math as to what the ratio and relation between landlords and renters are.

    I’ll wait.

    Some more scenarios:

    If there are more houses than people, then investors would loose money and housing won’t be a good “investment”.

    If there are fewer houses than people, then the same situation would unfold now just there would be homeless people.

    I’d like to see this demonstrated as false.

    Also this fits perfectly fits within supply demand curves.

    If you have people who want to own homes + an investment property, you’d’ve increased demand compared to everyone just wanting one home. D*2 > D. Hence the mere act of desiring investment properties and acting on that desire causes prices to increase. Prices only decreases when supply increases. As S ▲, then prices fall, P ▼. However the set amount of humans stay the same. So the following scenarios are possible: [N+0], Everyone wants one home [N+I], At least one person wants an investment property

    1. S[=N+0]=D[=N+0], P-
    2. S[=N+0]<D[=N+I], P▲
    3. S[<N+0]<D[=N+0], P▲
    4. S[<N+0]<D[=N+I], P▲
    5. S[>N+0]>D[=N+0], P▼
    6. S[<N+I]<D[=N+I], P▲
    7. S[>N+0]>D[=N+0], P▼
    8. S[>N+I]>D[=N+I], P▼
  • twopi@lemmy.catoCanada@lemmy.ca•Are ‘mom-and-pop’ investors pricing out first-time homebuyers?English
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    8 months ago

    There are two solutions.

    1. Housing Cooperatives: https://chfcanada.coop/about-co-op-housing/
    2. Community Land Trusts: https://www.communityland.ca/

    Both provide people the ability to have homes without direct ownership nor dealing with the hassle of ownership nor the uncertainty of renting.

    It has the benefits of owning. Control over rent prices, ability of modifying living space (including putting up pictures) and benefits of renting (allowing easy relocation, delegate maintenance responsibility).

    Housing cooperatives and CLTs have the benefits of both without the drawbacks of either. It also treats housing as a human right as opposed to an “investment”.

    There are housing cooperatives for students, the most temporary population and the least wanting to maintain a property.

    https://www.nasco.coop/

    You can be a part of this movement too by donating or investing in such projects. I urge you to do so.

    They work, and work well. There just needs be mass injection of funds into them.

  • twopi@lemmy.catoCanada@lemmy.ca•Are ‘mom-and-pop’ investors pricing out first-time homebuyers?English
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    8 months ago

    I absolutely agree. I’ll repeat a comment I made separately.

    I’ll repost a comment I made before again here:

    If you have half the population each have 1 investment property. You must have the other half renters. You literally want to create two classes. Those with investment properties and those with no property. One class above another. You’re just using billionaires as a shield. You want to put yourself in a class above other people.

    We should all work so that each person has one home.

    And the “I don’t want to work until I die” should be covered by social insurance/social security instead of making someone else a renter.

    context: https://lemmy.ca/comment/4927203

  • twopi@lemmy.catoCanada@lemmy.ca•Are ‘mom-and-pop’ investors pricing out first-time homebuyers?English
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    8 months ago

    I’ll repost a comment I made before again here:

    If you have half the population each have 1 investment property. You must have the other half renters. You literally want to create two classes. Those with investment properties and those with no property. One class above another. You’re just using billionaires as a shield. You want to put yourself in a class above other people.

    We should all work so that each person has one home.

    And the “I don’t want to work until I die” should be covered by social insurance/social security instead of making someone else a renter.

    context: https://lemmy.ca/comment/4927203

  • twopi@lemmy.catoCanada@lemmy.ca•Ed Broadbent was ‘the best prime minister we never had’ | RicochetEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I watched the debate from 1979. I wish Broadbend could have presented his vision better. He was a too aggressive and I can see why people voted for Joe Clark. Just on behaviour and delivery alone.

    The biggest issue at the time was oil production. The NDP proposed nationization while the PCs privatization. The PCs presented the choice between Canadian ownership vs government ownership and Clark stressed that. While Braodbend focused on domestic vs foreign interference. The PCs promising “direct ownership” as opposed to “nebulus government” ownership was delivered better.

    I wish the NDP embrace more demsoc principles. This will lead to focusing on distribution of power. Instead of setting up crown corporations with the board of directors being responsible to parliament, they should have proposed elected boards of directors of crown corporations be directly elected by the people on election day (maybe even sit/replace the senate) and also pitch it as alternative public revenue source.

    The PCs used the NDP talking point, about domestic ownership/control and direction and flipped it against them by tying it and subverting it into direct private shareholders.

    The NDP should do the same but reverse. Tie patriotism/civic duty of one vote per person to the concept of voting and controlling of natural resources through giving votes to each citizen to crown corporations and charging the PCs of removing the concept of one person one, vote. Also use fiscal conservatism against itself. Crown corporations diversify revenues. Charge the PCs of raising taxes due to reduced “income streams” for government. Lastly, tie charity to social welfare as it is the same thing.

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