Apparently there was an all night debate over this. The Liberals keep adding amendments to put in rent controls.. They say "temporary", but I don't trust governments to do anything temporary.
The radio had a good point last night. If we need rent controls, what about all the scummy people that bought houses a few years ago, rode up the prices and are selling them for huge profits now! The prices of houses have doubled in the past few years!!
That's outrageous, we need to impose resale controls to limit the increase in housing prices. Limit it to inflation + 2% per year, that way new people coming to Calgary will be able to find a place to live.
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