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42% drop in Vancouver housing starts prompts worry from development advocate - Urban Development Institute says plunge signals worst housing downturn in 30 years (www.cbc.ca)

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Drummond also noted that Canada's foreign homebuyer ban is set to expire in 2027, and said that Australia could serve as a potential model for how to deal with foreign buyers.

"They allow foreign buyers to purchase new product," he said. "But they don't allow people to buy existing inventory and bid up the cost of existing stocks."

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[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If we were properly functional wed go back to city built housing which you could either rent or buy at reasonable rates with no huge profit motive.

My grandparents lived in one (rented) their whole life. And the city was the landlord that took care of maintenance and painting, etc. Once they passed the house goes on the list for the next people needing one.

[–] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

Heavy tax breaks and assistance for co-housing and co-ops, especially at missing-middle size, and opening up careful mixed-zoning, is where municipalities can make a huge impact. Upper-income parochialism will blind most councils though.