The Prime Minister announced a new government agency to oversee billions in financial incentives for developers, a plan he spoke about during his election-campaign appearance on Village Media’s podcast
Let me say this, as an “elder” millennial. This isn’t the first time government puppets have touted some plan for affordable housing.
You know what I’ve seen throughout all of those adorable housing plans? Prices going up, property sizes shrinking, materials becoming cheaper and less durable, houses becoming less unique.
So you “get to” buy a smaller home, that looks like every other home, that was built poorly and will need repairs sooner, and for all of this, you get to pay more for the “privilege”.
I hope I’m wrong, but I’ve heard this song before.
The only way you will ever get an affordable home is when someone you know, who owns a home, dies, and leaves it to you in their will.
If that happens to anyone, my advice: take it, keep it, fix it, and never leave it. You’ll only fuck yourself over if you do. I don’t care how much the house is “worth” on the market. Never sell. It’s literally the only way you’ll own a home outright, without killing yourself with working overtime to afford it.
I feel, the song is similar but much louder and more coherent this time. Harper really had nothing besides some mucking about at the margins, Trudeau tried a bit but like a lot of things he tried, didn’t get all that much done. This one at least feels like a fairly coherent, federal through to municipal approach on the government side, with a bunch of private sector ideas.
That being said, I think the key is what you mean by affordable. I am hopeful they can lay the foundations to get housing back to something like just pre-pandemic (and hopefully just keep going!), which still wasn’t great for many people. I’m lucky enough that I think I’d be okay to buy something I want in that scenario.
But overall, yeah I think housing standards are just going to be different for us than our parents and similarly, between us and the youngings coming up now. I live in Vancouver, it’s almost doubled in size since 1990! The single detached houses a 10 minute bike ride from downtown that a middle class couple could easily afford? Probably not happening again.
Let me say this, as an “elder” millennial. This isn’t the first time government puppets have touted some plan for affordable housing.
You know what I’ve seen throughout all of those adorable housing plans? Prices going up, property sizes shrinking, materials becoming cheaper and less durable, houses becoming less unique.
So you “get to” buy a smaller home, that looks like every other home, that was built poorly and will need repairs sooner, and for all of this, you get to pay more for the “privilege”.
I hope I’m wrong, but I’ve heard this song before.
The only way you will ever get an affordable home is when someone you know, who owns a home, dies, and leaves it to you in their will.
If that happens to anyone, my advice: take it, keep it, fix it, and never leave it. You’ll only fuck yourself over if you do. I don’t care how much the house is “worth” on the market. Never sell. It’s literally the only way you’ll own a home outright, without killing yourself with working overtime to afford it.
Hey fellow oldie!
I feel, the song is similar but much louder and more coherent this time. Harper really had nothing besides some mucking about at the margins, Trudeau tried a bit but like a lot of things he tried, didn’t get all that much done. This one at least feels like a fairly coherent, federal through to municipal approach on the government side, with a bunch of private sector ideas.
That being said, I think the key is what you mean by affordable. I am hopeful they can lay the foundations to get housing back to something like just pre-pandemic (and hopefully just keep going!), which still wasn’t great for many people. I’m lucky enough that I think I’d be okay to buy something I want in that scenario.
But overall, yeah I think housing standards are just going to be different for us than our parents and similarly, between us and the youngings coming up now. I live in Vancouver, it’s almost doubled in size since 1990! The single detached houses a 10 minute bike ride from downtown that a middle class couple could easily afford? Probably not happening again.