DouglasTodd Private capital assumed this risk. No public sector bailouts please. Let prices fall.

But weren’t they less than 5% of total purchases, as the industry was saying to the public? 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️ Guess that 5% was pretty important 🤷‍♂️

Norway's national anthem is a thing of ethereal beauty 😲🇳🇴 ASTRID S brings all the feels on matchday one at #WEURO2025

If you’re a British Columbian, is it more important to: a. Ensure that housing is affordable for the next generation who are raised here?, or b. Attract international capital to drive construction that’s unaffordable to locals?

Hutchyman DouglasTodd Andy Yan | @ayan604.bsky.social 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

Hutchyman DouglasTodd Andy Yan | @ayan604.bsky.social Most MPs are landlords ismympalandlord.ca/en

As housing starts circle the drain, developers are lobbying the federal government to amend the foreign-buyer ban to allow foreign investment in newly constructed homes. vancouversun.com/opinion/column…

“Listen, the only way condo development works is if we keep accepting foreign wealth into this city and pricing people on local incomes out” - the UDI #VanRE

With the real estate market faltering and prices declining, we’ll soon see whether the government once again steps in to prop up legacy stakeholders—or finally lets affordability unlock homeownership for a new generation.

Fascinating how "getting projects off the ground" is treated as more important than affordability, and that the UDI is admitting these two goals are at odds. Supply cultism at work.

DouglasTodd #Investors foreign or domestic will only buy pre-sale #housing in a market where prices are rising, not falling Investors want a return on their investment Now with an abundance of #supply - built & unsold units, prices are stagnant thus no investors, no pre-sales, no new starts

17.5k foreigners have had their criminal convictions forgiven by Canada's Immigration Department over the past 11 years. The disclosure has raised transparency concerns about the type of offences they committed. Via Marie Woolf #IRCC #cdnimm #cdnpoli theglobeandmail.com/politics/artic…

Didn’t the industry say it was racist to even mention this back in the day… 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️ We all remember how easy it was to hack an email 😉😂

Falling home prices has improved housing affordability. Buying a home in Canada is the easiest it's been in the last three years.

Population growth to B.C. and Metro Vancouver is slowing. But this Metro Vancouver chart reveals how speedily it's been rising until now. Metro Van jumped by 120k people in 2023. 90k of them were "non-permanent," ie. foreign students & other guest workers. metrovancouver.org/boards/Regiona…

DouglasTodd thanks for shining the light on city’s so called green agenda

"Without more trees, B.C.’s next heat dome could be even deadlier." Via Dr. Melissa Lem, Bethany Ricker, David Quigg. Apropos my latest today: On how half a city block of foliage is to be covered by a highrise at 5455 Balsam St., Vancouver. timescolonist.com/opinion/commen… via Times Colonist