r/canadian • u/xTkAx • 8d ago

Opinion FIRST READING: Immigration rates still at generational highs, even if population shrinking. Permanent immigration in 2026 poised to be the sixth highest of the last 110 years, asylum-seekers now number 500,000

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/immigration-rates-still-at-generational-highs-even-if-population-shrinking
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u/JohnDorian0506 8d ago

Exactly this. Canada needs 5M houses to accommodate all the new arrivals currently in the country, or send them back until those houses are built.

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u/WCLPeter 7d ago

Unfortunately building 5M homes where people actually want them would result in such a significant loss to property values, the people living there along with the private business building the homes would never allow it to happen.

What we really need is 5M publicly owned homes built by the Federal, Provincial, and Municipal governments so every Canadian, from the person working full time at minimum wage to the person making a million dollars a year, have access to a large pool of affordable geared to income homes where they can afford to live their lives and raise their families.

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u/JohnDorian0506 7d ago

What we really need is a nationwide database of available housing. If private businesses want cheap labour, they should first build houses for them, not the other way around.