I wish he had a Mstdn.ca link on his page.

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    1. Build houses. AFAIU, CMHC used to work with provides to do that. The houses could be sold below market price to people below a certain income, or rented out.

    2. Build affordable housing. Rent it out below market rate.

    3. More no-interest loans for co-ops and not-for-profit builders.

    4. Put a lifetime limit on the amount of profit people can make on their primary residence tax free. Maybe 100k? Maybe 100k/five years of primary residence? I dunno. This would have to be on new purchases.

    5. Get more people building houses. Carney proposes more apprenticeships, which is great, but that takes time - we should also encourage more immigrants to build houses as a pathway to citizenship.

    6. Nobody in the trades should pay for an education. Our taxes should cover it. Ditto for healthcare.

    There’s a bunch of other stuff that I like, but may not make sense: remove taxes on construction materials; lower taxes on the trades; crack down on money laundering; disallow foreign ownership of Canadian homes; make improvements on homes tax free.