BC Homes Matter

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Canada’s State of Emergency | Pamela Palmater | TEDxRyersonU The repercussions of a colonial past are still ever present among the aboriginal communities in Canada. Through her talk, "Canada’s State of Emergency and Ho...

Unfortunately, austerity is spreading across north America like a disease...corporations and developers are targeting the most vulnerable since they often do not have the resources to fight back. Banks and governments are loving it because they earn more money from the hard sweat of the common man as we fall deeper and deeper into debt. Multi-generational mortgages on $1.5 million shoe-boxes?
A lot of ridiculously priced new developments are sitting empty, owned by non-citizens who live off shore and administered by development groups with numbered companies. Meanwhile our veterans, aged and handicapped live on the street?!
How is this the Canada our forefathers gave their lives for? It disgusts anyone with a beating heart.
These are not ex-cons, hookers and drug pushers...these are mostly grandmothers, single parents, young families, veterans and handicapped people! These are all our grandparents, mothers, children and siblings! THIS IS THE CANADIAN WAY OF LIFE! We are only as good as our least fortunate in this society... People need to stand up and fight. It can make a difference but we need to make our voices heard! No form of government wants rallying outside chambers with press attention while they pass unconscionable property laws!

Vancouver’s rental cost crisis worse than any other major Canadian city, data shows Greater Vancouver is flashing a code-red rental affordability crisis according to a new Canadian rental housing cost index. And B.C. has the most costly rent among all provinces in the index’s most critical measure, with 23.8 per cent of households spending more than 50 per cent of income on r…