Vienna has something like 40% of all units as public housing, and decade waitlists where you have to already live in the city to be eligible to be on the lists. Singapore is closer to 90% and still has waitlists, requiring you to get married to get priority and even that can take a couple years.

How exactly does your proposal somehow fix that situation?

I’ve seen no situation in which building public housing of any amount becomes anything but a lottery for the poor, and here especially with all the land already privately owned it would be prohibitively expensive to get to even 10% public housing, let alone the larger amounts seen in some of these other places.

No, the real answer lies with crashing house prices directly. It’s just a Band-Aid we’re going to have to rip off at some point, and it’s going to fucking hurt.

I’ll enlighten you, It’s a bad idea. Engineering intentionally contagious things is far too likely to go wrong.

Can you show me a single place where buldinng public housing has kept prices affordable?

Even Vienna and Singapore, the kings of public housing, still have expensive private housing and decade long waitlists.

I’m not sure why people keep pushing public housing as sort of fix. Public housing is just a lottery for poor people, paid for by government taxes on everyone else. It doesn’t fix the problem at all.

That wouldn’t really work well, I did the math a couple years back, and waiting for inflation to correct housing prices back to “affordable” based on the standard definition in Vancouver or Toronto would take almost a century.

It’s better than nothing, but it wouldn’t significantly help anyone who’s struggling now, or really anyone who’s already been born. A new baby born tomorrow is looking for housing in 20ish years… And if rents stayed the same as they are today and wage inflation was fairly normal during thay period, minimum wage would be around $30 an hour or around $4000 a month full time and a one bedroom apartment in Vancouver or Toronto would still cost well over half their gross income.

If you turned up at their door randomly, and they’d feed you and let you sleep at their house for a night while you’re passing through, they’re family.

In some ways, friends are family too.

Just “finished” Factorio’s new Space Age expansion. Just a few more achievements to collect, but I need to start a couple new runs for those so I will be continuing on with that until Path of Exile 2’s early access in December.

This it the real answer. It’s usually just easier to do it because it’s the expected situation.

They won’t be able to address the cost of living issue.

They can’t. The policy changes required are too painful for voters to accept.

The easy fix to make cost of living cheaper is to crash the price of homes. Cheaper homes means cheaper labour (since people don’t need to make as much to rent/own) which in turn translates to cheaper everything produced by labour in this country. It makes our country more competitive globally too, though certain imports would be more expensive relative to percentage of income than they are now.

The government could crash home prices in a half dozen different ways, but it means that existing home owners would lose almost all the value of their home, which they’ve been told their entire life is an investment. Some people would literally end up with no retirement funds because they were banking on their house getting them through the last few years. Almost everyone who bought in the last 10 years would end up with mortgages which are greater than the value of their home that they would still have to pay legally.

We aren’t talking about a few thousand dollars here either, a single condo owner would lose multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars and some families would lose more than a million dollars on single family home. It would bankrupt almost every single landlord, even those people who just rent a suite and rely on it to pay the mortgage.

I don’t think voters are willing to do that, given that close to 65% of Canadian homes are owned by the family that live in them, and home owners tend to vote more than non-owners.

We’ve built a pyramid scheme on real estate, and far too many Canadians are invested in their home to want to let the system crumble. So we’re just fucking the next generation harder and harder until eventually we won’t have a choice.

Trump only has an idea of a plan at this point, there are no specifics

Usagi means Rabbit…

What a strange naming convention.

You’re talking about the future, we’re talking about right now.

Right now, the statement was accurate.

Start small. Learn to make ramen

Oh boy, please tell me you’re referring to just simply instant ramen.

It takes me 2 days of cooking to make a proper ramen with the stock, tare, noodles, and toppings.

That rabbit hole goes waaaaaay down.

No, he’s right. There is far more in common between someone from Seattle and someone from Lafayette than there is between two people from almost any two EU countries. Even in two countries that touch each other like France and Germany, they have radically different people in terms of language, customs, political priorities, etc.

replace with Y’all

Good.

I’m not aware of any country where the child would not automatically be eligible for the parents citizenship, even if the child is born abroad.

The point of contention is that people convicted of serious crimes can no longer legally change their name. These groups say that hurts transgender rights.

First, this has to affect almost nobody. The number of people convicted of serious crimes is already very low, the number of those who transition after committing such a crime has to be astronomically low.

Second, you committed a serious crime. The reason this law is being implemented is that a lot of people were trying to hide their past from a simple Google by legally changing their name. This is a common enough problem that the government is having to take action for it.

Nothing is stopping the small number of people impacted from using a different name in casual life, many people don’t use their legal name outside of legal situations. So I don’t really feel like this is a problem.

Right now in BC you don’t require any proof at all to get your gender changed unless you’re a minor under 12. You just fill out a form and pay a small fee and it’s done.

Maybe the best option here is an exception that requires doctor approval via transitional care just to avoid felons doing it maliciously. It’s a bit more of a burden, but it’s not too difficult.

The deportation thing? It benefits corporate interests by giving them another excuse to raise prices by more than than their actual costs.

They loved the cover COVID gave to raise prices and increase profits.

The real answer is you can’t actually contract for illegal things, the contract is void from the start.

The vast majority of big one scenarios will be in the wrong direction to hit port Alberni with a tsunami. They’re mostly expected further south.

That being said, there are still tsunami sirens in town for a reason. Tsunamis aren’t that fast relatively speaking, and you only need to get a little higher up, 10 meters or so.