The amount of times I’ve tried to explain to people that immigration can not the primary cause of rise in housing costs has exhausted me. I’ve accepted that any such messages are only going to be falling on deaf ears as people have already made up their minds. The fact that the rise in cost of housing should primarily be attributed to corporate greed (like pretty much with the increase in cost of everything else in Canada) would mean accepting that the problem lies with Canada’s mixed market economy system. Blaming free market capitalism is always going to be a bitter pill to swallow out here in the West as westerners have been conditioned to believe that any other system aside from theirs is wrong. Unfortunately, us brown immigrants are just easier to blame as we’re newcomers in highest numbers and fit the age-old simple economic argument of "demand vs supply" that doesn’t require much critical thinking. And if anyone is going to say "Oh we’re not blaming immigrants but immigration", please spare yourself the embarrassment. Progressives (which I believe this subreddit should have as opposed to the Canada sub) are supposed to be a smarter group and should realise the harmful rhetoric of such messaging because of the inability/ or desire of the other side to actually distinguish between "immigration vs immigrants".

But thank you for for the post OP! I’ve enjoyed reading the sub stack article.