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With rising rents and house prices making it increasingly harder to find a place to live, some are pointing the finger at Canada's record-level immigration rates.

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[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 16 points 10 months ago (2 children)

But experts and economists say that targeting immigration broadly won't bring the cost of housing down. What's required, they say, is a more nuanced approach.

These damn experts and their complicated answers to problems! I don't understand any of it! I just want someone to give me a simple answer!

"It's very simple math. If you have more families coming than you have housing for them, it's going to inflate housing prices," Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre told an audience in Winnipeg recently.

Ah! There we go!

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