Canada will change how it counts non-permanent residents, the main statistics agency said on Thursday, after an economist said the current methodology may have overlooked about a million foreign students, workers and others.

Canada will change how it counts non-permanent residents, the main statistics agency said on Thursday, after an economist said the current methodology may have overlooked about a million foreign students, workers and others.

  • irmoz@reddthat.com
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    1 year ago

    If the government has a monopoly on the housing stock, then individuals cannot choose what to build or how to permanently modify it since they cannot own their domicile.

    Of course they can. If a government has gone as far as nationalisation, they’ve also inevitably also undergone a democratic revolution in the favour of the people, with the people’s will leading the construction of new housing. When a person gets a home, it is theirs to have and use or modify as they wish. Why should it be any other way - what would the benefit of that be?

    I will not attempt to defend large corporations and hedge funds owning housing stock.

    So why parrot their talking points?

    I’m an individual homeowner, so I’m looking out for those who, through some mix of hard work and/or luck, have chosen to own their homes.

    So why resist the only remaining option for seizing the homes out of the hands of aforementioned hedge funds and corporations?

    I benefit from choosing how I live, where I live, what my home is like, and from accumulating equity. I want to preserve that opportunity for other hard working free people.

    Because you had enough money to buy a house. Most don’t, however hard they work. Because of corporate monopoly and the very existence of landlords removing homes from the hands of hard working people.

    As I stated in my first comment, we can certainly improve how we manage housing stock and make it available.

    By taking them out of the hands of landlords.

    Foreign corporations and shadowy hedge funds driving up pricing, and governments manipulating values through tampering with interest rates are places I think we should start looking

    You know why they’d drive up pricing and manipulate interest, right?

    Because they’re fucking landlords.

    Abolish landlording - remove that entire incentive. Of course that couldn’t happen with the type of government we have now, so what I’m saying is either a pipe dream or a potential historical document to ponder after some future revolution.

    Nationalizing the whole of our housing stock? Nah, I’ll pass.

    The only people who’d potentially suffer such a thing would be landlords. I’m sorry, but you’re just defending those who are keeping housing away from those who need it.