According to a new report from Rentals, In July, the Canadian rental market hit a record high with an average asking rent of $2,078, marking an 8.9 per cent annual increase.

You are viewing a single thread.
View all comments View context
24 points

Approximately 40% of MPs are landlords.

Approximately 20% of Ontario MPPs are landlords.

More information for the provincial politicians.

Who knows how many politicians at the municipal level are landlords.

Politicians have a clear, genuine interest to continue the system as is, so they can continue to make money off this. Add in the fact, that home ownership is considered the sacred cow of the investments and nothing can happen to that investment.

Guess what? People lose money on investments on all the time.

permalink
report
parent
reply

Canada

!canada@lemmy.ca

Create post

What’s going on Canada?



Communities


🍁 Meta

πŸ—ΊοΈ Provinces / Territories

πŸ™οΈ Cities / Local Communities

πŸ’ Sports

Hockey

Football (NFL)

  • List of All Teams: unknown

Football (CFL)

  • List of All Teams: unknown

Baseball

Basketball

Soccer


πŸ’» Universities

πŸ’΅ Finance / Shopping

πŸ—£οΈ Politics

🍁 Social and Culture

Rules

Reminder that the rules for lemmy.ca also apply here. See the sidebar on the homepage:

https://lemmy.ca


Community stats

  • 2.8K

    Monthly active users

  • 5.7K

    Posts

  • 52K

    Comments

Community moderators