worse housing conditions if that’s all they can afford.

You just called more affordable housing 'worse'. And you think I have flawed logic? Ok then.

You also seem to think we're leaches. Pretty obviously bigoted, which explains why you dont believe in logic or empirical data. But you do you my friend. Good luck with that attitude.

You're talking about rent manipulation by a corporate landlord. Those of us 'mom and pop' landlords have no desire to get people in a place and then jack the rate only to have to replace them again the next year. Stability, even if rent is slightly below market rent, is FAR more desirable and much more beneficial financially. Tenants moving out incurs our biggest expenses and costs, so no one wants to make that happen and one month of a unit sitting empty waiting for a new tenant easily wipes out any increase in rent so we generally avoid that as much as possible.

There's a happy medium where both tenant and landlord are happy and I find that to be when rents are 50 to 80 under fair market rent. If tenants know they're getting a decent deal and that moving is likely to not only cost them moving costs PLUS higher rent, they'll stay around, which works for both of us. Through in some advantages like allowing pets with no additional fees and they'll stay a LONG time.

Ill take the opinion of THESE two much more civilized Ottawa citizens any day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HehBfAnOTtA&list=PLXE2iI4B5qHwoWHzsBGZif7StPkYgW7pi&index=3&ab_channel=DennisHendrickson

No, I rent houses. That basement suite is the lower suite, the upper suite is a separate unit. My point is that they are far too big an investment for renters to actually be able to buy and many of my renters dont WANT to buy. Some do and several have done so but thats the minority.

And condos are a very bad investment. Condo fees and insurance, plus emergency repairs on them make them highly expensive. Would never touch one.

So my rental basement suite, I rent out for 1200 in a major Canadian city. The house is worth 650,000. A mortgage on that house at todays interest rates would be 3650. Insurance is another 150. Property taxes are 300. So monthly fixed costs of ownership are 4100. But there's always something to fix so add on a very modest 300 a month for that and 4400 is a reasonably moderate estimate.

SO explain to me how the person who now pays 1200 a month is going to come up with more than THREE times their rent per month to buy a house? And theres no way that house is dropping so far down in value that 1200 is anywhere close to being able to buy it, even if it lost HALF its value. Give me your solution to how that would work.

Mom and pop landlords provide the cheapest rentals on the market. Our investment in rental housing is absolutely necessary in providing a place for those on the lowest budgets.

There was ONE guy with a Nazi flag wearing a face covering (why? The protesters were anti mask) who was jeered out of the crowd and disappeared into a hotel. He was NOT with the convoy and definitely NOT supported by the protesters.

We’re all whores though. They wave cash in front of our faces and we beg them for it.

I got into teaching to help kids grow and learn and you think Im a whore for money? Im done with your ridiculous and completed unfounded opinions. You need help.

you shouldn’t do things like voting with the intent to push your view on others.

Dear lord, have you heard of this thing called democracy? Thats EXACTLY why we vote.

Selling your health, youth, time, etc. is fine in your opinion, but selling sex isn’t for some reason?

You honestly think that selling your time to make money is the same as selling your BODY to make money? Please tell me your not serious about that. There are barter systems where people exchange their labor for goods without any money involved, but I think you'd be hard pressed to find a system where people sell their body for goods on regular basis.

So exactly how does one provide for one's need for food clothing and shelter if they DONT want to sell their time? Live in the woods and forage for berries?

Where do you get 'hypocritical' and 'arbitrary' out of what I said? And where am I 'forcing' anyone to do anything? Im stating my views based on years of experience working with street workers and long experience on this earth.

Dude. one of my kids is a house cleaner. Give up your prejudiced opinion. But the difference between her and the average retail worker is she decided to start her own company and has now got enough work she can hire another worker. And she works her ass off scrubbing other people's toilets, bathtubs and sinks for hours a day on her knees.

There IS a way out of the hole if a person is motivated enough. But I dont have sympathy for those who aren't motivated enough to bust their asses to move up the ladder.

We shouldn’t live in a capitalist society. It’s a bad system that leads to oligarchy and class division.

Its definitely not a perfect system, but show me one thats better? I mean Canada has a capitalist economy but with as strong social support network underlying it. I cant think of a better way to run a country.