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submitted 1 year ago by sik0fewl@kbin.social to c/canada@lemmy.ca

An affordable housing crisis that is hurting the Canadian government's popularity will take years to resolve, even if construction hits an 80-year high, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said on Saturday.

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[-] nul42@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

I work in construction and pretty much all I get to work on is huge luxury homes for people who own multiple homes. These projects take up huge amounts of construction labour resources. We are very busy but what we are building is not going to increase housing stock for working Canadians.

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