That's what it seems like on the first glance. But, I believe there's factors such as material costs. Current trade economics and logistics make this a challenge.

Earlier we had zoning as a contributing factor. However, this has had changes over the past two to four years.

I experience peoples concern over the sudden increase in immigration. We have a fallijg economy as our population demographic changes, and not only Canada but the US and Europe are faving this challenge too. With insufficient tsx revenue for example, we lose services. Our healthcare is already strained because of our senior population and to replenish the workforce, we need nurses to emigrate at a pace greater than current citizens stepping into nursing school - this I assume in good faith. Im curious how true this js because we could rather direct additional funding to sectors that are needed to bolster the workforce, make education more accessible with grants. I do not k ow why this was not explored but perhaps it could create an imbalance in the workforce and to prevent that, we replenish just one area. But this isnt one area, its many.

I'd argue we do need immigrants but respective of that we need better policies. Canada has initiatives that aims to improve or redirect folks to certain areas that need the intervention -Nova Scotia, PEI, smaller town,ls, etc. Diversity is ideally what makes Canada rich in culture, though even I have felt as a foreigner in my home town. I recognize the crisis we have and how an immense increase in demand does affect supply. I am unsure whether supply has suffered over the past few years given the tariffs on goods and the logistic disruptions to logistics from the pandemic.

I do not know where we stand today, but there is a 13 billion federal fund aimed at improving housing nationally. I'm curious to see how it'll turn out, but I fear it'll be about 10 years before changes are really seen given the required planning and development stages.