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Originally Posted by blankall
That only works so much. Look at BC. People did start looking to live in other places, which just resulted in the all the prices in the secondary markets, like Nanaimo, Victoria, and Kelowna going through the roof too. Small town can also only handle so much growth. You can't just move 20k people into a small town and expect the town to handle that. Then you need to rezone the land around the town. You also price out the locals, who are earning local dollars and don't have the benefit of bringing in a big wad of cash from another market.
There's a million people coming into the country every year. The government neeeds to come up with a plan for housing.
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I guess I shouldn’t have said “solution” - it’s not as simple as I implied there.
What I was meaning though, is that this could be a big tool in terms of solving a problem which will require the entire toolbox.