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by Karl Nerenberg • Rabble.ca

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[-] Anon819450514@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Inflation is a monetary issue. You need to vacuum the excess liquidity in the economic system by having high interest rates. There is no escape to that.

Maybe if we'd removed the limitations on the building height or other law that limits the housing offers, the private sector would build more houses, who knows.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes, we should absolutely do that too. Calgary is going to vote on blanket rezoning all single-family housing area to allow 4-plexes (with additional basement suites), for example.

I guess the "simple" solution, looking at this data, would be to give a special BoC interest rate specifically for financing certain housing loans and mortgages, and continue raising the rate for everything else. There might be pitfalls to that that I'm not considering, though. You'd want to be sure there's no way for other instruments to inappropriately get cheaper as a result.

[-] Powerpoint@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Tax speculators. It'll free up tons of housing.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

I'm skeptical. Buying an expensive asset and collecting nothing from it is usually a good way to lose money. Didn't Vancouver already do this a couple years ago anyway?

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