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The federal government has a bunch of tools to lower demand or increase supply. And their response is to create a TFSA?
It's embarrassing. We all know how to fix this issue, but they refuse to do it because people would lose their paper gains.
The only was this gets solved is if renters become a voting block and demand that prices actually go down. How they get driven down is up to some limited debate. But the real hurdle is having people acknowledge that in order to improve affordability, prices have to actually go down.
It's so stupid. The problem with the housing market isn't that I don't have a proper account to keep a $200k down payment that is needed.
The TFSA has a limit of $40k and you can "only" save $8k/year. So you wouldn't be able to get an actual down payment in there anyway.
But yeah, point taken. The TFSA is an insufficient response to a real problem.
So, and hear me out here, why the hell doesn't the CMHC build public housing like they used to? You know, like before the late 1990s when every level of government just abdicated responsibility for anyone who wasn't already rich.
yes plz