what the
how does the root canal cost that much
i thought you had free healthcare in canadaland

>>35416
dental and optical isn't healthcare

why dont they build more homes

>>35418
Housing is seen as an investment vehicle, not a commodity. NIMBYs, mostly old retired senpais who can actually attend city council meetings that almost always scheduled during work hours, protest building apartments, condos, and townhouses by saying things like "this will impact the character of our town" when they really just mean they don't want housing prices to fall.

>>35419
imagine if instead of gross old senpais it was councils of permalolis

>>35418
There are a lot of excuses but home ownership is an investment and and industry with people who want the status quo maintained. In China they pumped out tons of houses for the status quo of builders. In Japan it's the same where houses must be torn down every time it changes hands.

In North America it's like stocks so people want it to always go up and the status quo is constant upwards growth. That requires limitated supply.

i though t lived in florida

Quebec is where they speak French, right? I imagine that affords them a degree of isolation from the mass immigration crisis that makes landlords and real estate hoarding investors salivate

>>35427
it's an advantage. Their pushes towards Anglo isolationism and their movements support by the Canadian government means they don't reap any rewards of American culture while the rest of Canada does.

So you have the parries which are farm areas and not very urban that replicate the opioid crisis and poor education of America and Toronto which replicates corrupt mayors who rollback on spending while appealing to hedge-funds(NIMBY) and ignores addiction and homeless problems. Quebec is more European in the sense that it doesn't abide by any sensible stereotypes. Probably it's closer to China where our leading party tries to ban religous symbols from state and education and also tries to make it impossible for foreign buisness to enter without abiding by local customs. But it differs from China in that there's no state apperatus that tries to monitor what happens, it's closer to the Japanese system of guilting people into conformity

>>35419
What I am going to say is brutal but that reasoning makes me wish Norh American cities had brutal earthquakes and constant typhoons like Japan.
Most of my city’s housing was built before 1970 and it like many others could use a makeover.

>>35422
>people want it to always go up
That makes property taxes go up too so you don't really benefit from prices going up unless you own enough to rent out or flip and can pass the cost onto someone else.

I own enough to FLIP

The real problem is immigration. It's common sense that if you build fewer houses than you import people then house prices will go up.

We have this issue in Australia too.

Australia is quite suburb oriented so changing zoning in some areas might help but probably not that much. Builders here are already spread thin. That's another issue here. I heard that the union builders are in stops the government importing other builders. Not sure how true that is or how much of an effect it has but it seems likely.

>>35637
>Immigration
Build more houses

>>35640
lol

>>35640
t. raped by a jeet

The real problem is immigration but not because it leads to high house prices/rent

You ever wonder how China manages to share a border with Pakistan, India and Russia (with some degree of immigration), have a billion number of people yet also have enough houses and jobs for all of them

>>35651
China has barely any immigration and a declining population.

They do make a lot of houses though. But the quality of them is questionable and such construction is driven by speculation and a huge amount of irresponsible spending fueled by massive amounts of debt. Not something we should want to emulate.

I can't say I'm familiar with China's housing market, but I remember hearing that they build a lot of things even if there's no one to live in them. Lots of industries involved to keep the economy going or something. Western housing, is uhh... well, the immigration policy of "let them all in and let someone else figure it out" naturally hasn't had a good effect.
Something shared by the West and China is housing is now a luxury to hoard rather than a basic commodity, so various parasitic firms scoop them all up, even foreign ones. There was a new neighborhood built a few dozen miles from here by some Californian investors and it only has small, kuso rental houses that no one would choose to live in. I can see it being filled with "legally challenged" residents.
That's the way of the future. Neighborhoods where no one owns their house.

He posted more about his rent-eviction process