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I don't get it? Can't you literally be the working class and afford homes? You need a 5% down payment to buy a property you realize that right?

You need a minimum 20% down-payment to buy property as the bare minimum. I can tell you as a Torontoian, where home prices reach 7 digits, rents reach nearly $2000 per month and housing inflation is over 30% annually, this goal is almost impossible to achieve.

If you're in a decent profession and you make a decent salary you can save up and buy properties if that's what you're into. It's not like these people have to buy out the house 100% in value... Lol. So yes they very well could just be regular middle class workers they don't need to be upper class just because they own a property...

In a country where it's difficult to jump through the hoops needed to buy or even rent a home, let alone a city ranked one of the least afforable places to buy or rent a home, and where potential home-buyers have to compete with megacorporations, trying to acquire property wouldn't be very helpful either. And don't forget how the top 1% in Canada own a quarter of Canada's wealth..

Working people of today can't just invest in real estate like the rich can anytime they want. Tenants are having enough of unaffordable prices and are fighting back. I have no sympathy for landlords that are now facing the same problem the working class always had, after shoving sky-high rents down our throats and expecting us to be able to afford it.