Housing Minister Sean Fraser says the federal government should have never got out of the housing business even as high-income professionals are struggling to find affordable housing.

“For the better part of the last half century, federal governments of different partisan stripes, by the way, liberal and conservatives, have stepped away from forwarding affordable housing in this country,” he said. “That should never have happened, but it did.”

Talk is cheap, but it’s refreshing to see the new Housing Minister broach the issue of the feds building housing. AFAIK, landlord Ahmed Hussen never discussed this in his tenure as Housing Minister.

I guess we’ll see if there’s any meaningful action from him before the next person takes his seat.

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    1 year ago

    Are they gonna aggressively build out a supply chain to support that aggressive build out? I mean, it’d be ducks if they did but it seems really unlikely.

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      They could. I mean, they are the government: they can print money, raise taxes and/or straight up expropriate land and resources.

      Will they? LOL…