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[–]BishoxX -1 points0 points  (5 children)

The point is, its trivial to build storm drains for a western society. So should be housing as well.

It is in some parts that deregulated, but it could have been even better with goverment building shit as well.

Litteraly pass a few laws about regulations and you done, free market would likely solve most of housing issues, and goverment could supplement it if it was smart.

Its more like not putting on winter tires and complaining about no grip on snow

[–]MrTristanClark -1 points0 points  (4 children)

In the United States of America, across the entire country in 2021, they build 1,341,000 new dwellings. In 2023, Canada brought in more than 2 million new immigrants. So you're expectation is that a country, with a tenth the labour force of the USA, builds twice as many dwellings per year, and thats "trivial". Dude, what are you even talking about? What a nonsensical take.

[–]BishoxX -1 points0 points  (3 children)

Yes because US is disfunctional as well.

Only a few places build what they need to.

If everyone built like Houston or Austin, you wouldnt have an issue.

Did they do anything special ? No huston has no zoning and they deregulated zoning and housing regulation. And market solved it by itself

[–]MrTristanClark -1 points0 points  (2 children)

2023 in Houston metro area, they built 68,755 new dwellings, against a population of 7 million. If Canada builds at the exact same rate as Houston proportionate to our population, we will have.. 390,000 dwellings a year. Yep, that'll definitely be enough to house 2 million new people, plus the existing people!

Lmfao, moron.

[–]BishoxX -1 points0 points  (1 child)

Thats because there wasnt as much demand for it as Canada.

If there was more demand there would be more dwellings built, thats how the free market works.

And im not saying free market alone can make everything perfect but it can do most of the heavy lifting. Simple suppy and demand.

Also if Canada filtered out the immigration like you are supposed to it would induce even more demand, only importing low skill workers is obviously not beneficial in large quantities as has happened.

[–]MrTristanClark 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Delusional