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Well, a home needs to be repaired and improved before sale. This is part of what the market demands.

This is part of the investment a homeowner makes, and increasing the value of a home through repairs and renovation really shouldn't be looked at as a bad thing.

If you are renting a place, you expect the same repairs and improvements to be made, which is why rent doesn't simply drop because of “depreciation”.

If the land is so valuable in the suburb of a city, it should have multi-unit housing on it. Then the rich are forced to pay that raising cost and the poor get an increased supply of housing.

Well, some people do sell their land so that developers can have their way with it. I don't think that's a good thing overall, since there needs to be some balance.

But multi-unit housing on expensive land does not make it affordable. Having an income that's above the median, in addition to renting, is what Stats Canada says is affordable housing to the majority of Canadians.