First Doug and Chow demand a RTO initiative at the plea of downtown Toronto business owners and commercial landlords so that people will, essentially, be forced to buy and eat downtown. It’s not working as people simply refuse to pay. So their next brilliant idea is to get rid of bike lanes completely so that people driving will shop and eat downtown? that’s not going to work either. people are STILL going to refuse to pay. This won’t work and if anything is going to hurt businesses even more because people will simply continue to not shop downtown out of protest like they’re already doing.
Why should I buy a $20 mediocre burger at some restaurant on king street when I can make my own lunch or a burger at home? why hop in my car and pay gas to go buy something when I can now just get it delivered on uber?
It’s the same shit with their new proposals for renting. They refuse to acknowledge the ACTUAL issues and rather skirt around it with horrible infected bandaid solutions. We’re all broke. We all can’t afford the cost of living. Want us to live and work and shop downtown again? cool lower rents, lower the cost of everything, and the people will return and shop. Or, heaven forbid, wages increase across the board and STOP stagnating. You can’t force people to buy more when they dont’ have the money to buy more at an increased cost.
Ending evergreen leases and rent control is going to be an unmitigated disaster that’s going to result in thousands of people becoming homeless.
I have never in my life seen such a fucking brain dead, stupid, self serving political move that is so blatantly against the interests of common people in Canada.
it’s so idiotic. They firmly believe that places are sitting vacant because Landlords “fear” evergreen leases. No. Places are sitting vacant because people refuse to pay $2500+ a month for a shoebox. They don’t get it. you lower prices and gasp people start paying. But all they can get through their thick as fuck skulls is a JG Wentworth commerical “I need cash now” they can’t think of the long term. Would you rather a consistent and steady income on your rental property over years with a tenant that has happy to pay decent rent? or would you rather potentially make more for a single year and then sit on a vacant unit because no one wants to pay your prices. And these morons pick “you’re saying I’ll have a lot of money for one year?”
First Doug and Chow demand a RTO initiative at the plea of downtown Toronto business owners and commercial landlords so that people will, essentially, be forced to buy and eat downtown. It’s not working as people simply refuse to pay. So their next brilliant idea is to get rid of bike lanes completely so that people driving will shop and eat downtown? that’s not going to work either. people are STILL going to refuse to pay. This won’t work and if anything is going to hurt businesses even more because people will simply continue to not shop downtown out of protest like they’re already doing.
Why should I buy a $20 mediocre burger at some restaurant on king street when I can make my own lunch or a burger at home? why hop in my car and pay gas to go buy something when I can now just get it delivered on uber?
It’s the same shit with their new proposals for renting. They refuse to acknowledge the ACTUAL issues and rather skirt around it with horrible infected bandaid solutions. We’re all broke. We all can’t afford the cost of living. Want us to live and work and shop downtown again? cool lower rents, lower the cost of everything, and the people will return and shop. Or, heaven forbid, wages increase across the board and STOP stagnating. You can’t force people to buy more when they dont’ have the money to buy more at an increased cost.
Ending evergreen leases and rent control is going to be an unmitigated disaster that’s going to result in thousands of people becoming homeless.
I have never in my life seen such a fucking brain dead, stupid, self serving political move that is so blatantly against the interests of common people in Canada.
Fucking appalling.
it’s so idiotic. They firmly believe that places are sitting vacant because Landlords “fear” evergreen leases. No. Places are sitting vacant because people refuse to pay $2500+ a month for a shoebox. They don’t get it. you lower prices and gasp people start paying. But all they can get through their thick as fuck skulls is a JG Wentworth commerical “I need cash now” they can’t think of the long term. Would you rather a consistent and steady income on your rental property over years with a tenant that has happy to pay decent rent? or would you rather potentially make more for a single year and then sit on a vacant unit because no one wants to pay your prices. And these morons pick “you’re saying I’ll have a lot of money for one year?”
It absolutely fuckjng sickens me that there are people out there that are so fucking shortsighted, stupid, and selfish.
If this is passes it will be a fucking disaster.