How the ‘housing theory of everything’ explains Canada’s many converging crises

[CdnFox]

https://thehub.ca/2023-08-18/matthew-alexandris-how-the-housing-theory-of-everything-explains-canadas-many-converging-crises/

With the lowest number of housing units per 1,000 residents of any G7 country, a ratio that has only gotten exceedingly worse since the uptick of immigration in recent years, Canada faces the highest prices for housing in the G7. 

In reality, the housing shortage affects everything. That is, according to a trio of analysts writing in the journal Works in Progress, housing shortages also impact many of the most pressing problems in the Western world, among them declining fertility, endemic chronic illness, brutal inequality, climate catastrophe, sluggish productivity, and slow growth

It's an interesting read. When you look at it and think about it there can be little doubt that there is some truth to it.

The long-term answer is find ways to build more homes. But in the short run they have to control the number of immigrants to keep this problem from becoming worse and possibly permanent.

Edited August 18, 2023 by CdnFox

[myata]

Or entitled and deeply entrenched governments without any real accountability, in a near-perfect detachment from the reality of the country. Happens all the time, and no need for grand theories.

[CdnFox]

38 minutes ago, myata said:

Or entitled and deeply entrenched governments without any real accountability, in a near-perfect detachment from the reality of the country. Happens all the time, and no need for grand theories.

Right. Right.

Which reminds me - I personally think there should be laws against women who drink while pregnant.