And after paying all that money you still have to live in London 😔

I have no love for the Liberals but this is indisputably good policy for incentivizing rental supply. Gotta give credit where it's due.

That is a 100% indisputably correct assumption. Vacancy taxes worked where they've been implemented to incentivize the occupancy of empty homes and the overwhelming majority of homes have people living in them.

The point of this article is we can and should make room in Toronto. There’s plenty of space if we accommodate with a better built form that isn’t sprawling detached homes.

“let’s tear down everything here that all the existing residents chose and replace it with something else that we think is more logical”.

This feels like a dishonest interpretation that misses a lot of the nuance presented in the article.

Subsidizing homeowners with a taxpayer-funded cheque for $500 is regressive policy for a leftist party. Even if we're means-testing it, there's so many better ways that money could be spent.

Once again, as a renter dealing with year over year increases of hundreds of dollars per month, I get nothing.

How much empty housing do you think exists in canada’s largest cities?

"dealing with" is a charitable way to describe "pacing around my apartment desperately trying to avoid thoughts of existential dread"

Fighting this with regulation is a losing battle. The mobility revolution is already here. The long-term solution is to build more mobility lanes to accommodate.

lol a temporary boycott with an explicitly defined timeframe of two days. Yeah that'll show them.

I had no idea this was so dangerous. Uninstalling now

The very obvious solution to our housing crisis, the one almost literally every other country on earth would do, is to upzone our cities contained in the greenbelt. To say those cities are full and swap out greenbelt land is criminally negligent. Sprawl will cost us not only in upkeep but in the environmental devastation.