“This has become probably the most important both economic and political problem facing the country right now,” said Tyler Meredith, a former head of economic strategy and planning for Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland.

“And especially given the significant emphasis the government has put on immigration and the relationship between immigration and the housing market, there is a need to do more.”

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    1 year ago

    but I wouldn’t be able to move for a new job or resize if we had a kid, or anything like that for probably a decade

    But that’s only true if your property value went down, but absolutely no one else’s did.

    If property values went down across the board, your ability to do all those things would be basically unaffected.