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Originally Posted by YOWetal
Most of those of us who aren't racists basically assumed Immigration=good until 2022 or so. I noticed it here first and then in real life conversations a few months after that. It took the political-media elite a little longer but they are also waking up to the fact we need a massive decrease in immigration and especially TFW fake students that now form the bulk of the intake.
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I never thought I would have said cut immigration and reduce student visas (and TFWs) but here we are in 2024, growing at around 1.3 million/yr
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Originally Posted by MolsonExport
For most of my years (more than 20) at SSP, and for those that shared an opinion on the matter, the desire has been for a bigger (population) Canada. Be careful what you wish for, you might just get it.
Clearly, the intake is completely unsustainable, for a multitude of reasons. And if there is one thing that the current liberal government owns, it is the completely unrealistic intake.
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Molson, you in
London and me in
Niagara among every southern Ontarian have seen the price of for purchase housing and rentals rise insanely quick compared to most of Canada. Now the population growth is
accelerating and not enough housing is being built in southern Ontario, lower mainland BC and increasingly other parts of Canada. Something's gotta give.
As a Calgary forumer like O-tacular could attest,
Calgary has quickly risen in prices of rentals and for purchase housing the past few years. It will no longer be a city/Metro affordable to the masses.
Rents in our most affordable large cities,
Edmonton and
Winnipeg have jumped year over year by 27.5% and 26% respectively.
Québec City rents increased by 22%. If that continues, there goes the affordability advantage these Metros offered.
Ottawa is now the
6th most expensive rental market in Canada, and becoming increasingly unaffordable.
https://www.zumper.com/blog/rental-price-data-canada/
In Niagara:
Unit size.........2019 rent.........2024 rent
Bachelor......~$700-800.........$1100-1250+
1 bed...........~$925-1000+......$1550-1700+
2 bed...........~$1125-1250+....$1900-2000+
Benchmark/typical prices for purchase housing
Type..........Feb 2019............Feb 2024
SFH..........~$400,000...........$635,000
Semi........~$375,000............$590,000
Condo......~$280,000............$420,000
Nite, do you really think wages have kept pace with housing costs?
Welland (2021 pop ~56,000), of all places in Ontario, went from building an avg of ~160 new dwelling units/yr to now over 1,000/y or over 6x the amount in a short period:
Year........New units....Total All Building Permits value
2016......
132...............$
81.7M
2022......
1,045............$
231.2M
https://madeinwelland.ca/Data/pdfs/2...ntActivity.pdf
The city's projections estimate the population will be over 81,000 within a decade.
Molson, I sorted by newest listings for sale in Welland, built since 2020 (if year built was entered).
A lot of Ugly Canada Thread contenders
https://www.realtor.ca/map#ZoomLevel...Listings=false
The quality of life for the average Canadian seems to be diminished from what I remember 10-20 years ago. Only those with affordable mortgages and grandfathered rental prices are doing better than the rest of our fellow Canucks.