Only 319 new condo units were sold in the third quarter, down 54 per cent from a year ago and the lowest quarterly total since 1990 when Toronto’s condo market faced a severe crash, according to a quarterly condo report by the real estate research firm Urbanation.
Lemmings, what are your opinions on the housing market?
Can you explain this?
Do you mean private industry is asking for social money to invest in their construction?
No
I mean private industry can only operate on a profit based motive. Housing being a literal neccessity that private industry self- admittedly can’t do, it is now up to the public to take over.
The last 50 years of neoliberal rhetoric around privatization has only brought about multiple existential crises. It’s long past due time to put bad ideas to rest.
tbf, you actually could make quality housing, high-density housing for an affordable price, and sell (not rent) it for a profit…some real estate developers back in the day used to do this.
it’s just these businesses realized they could make even more money not building homes, if they captured legislature to get themselves a bunch of speculation incentives then just purposefully didnt build anything new while sitting on old land/buildings.
there is a long history of this same cycle of housing boom/bust going back centuries. there have been occasional surges in housing when someone with actual morals and work ethic acquired the capital to throw down housing.
Don’t tell me, tell them.