Wenn alle Regierungsebenen zugeben, dass es eine Immobilienkrise in der GTA gibt, warum unternimmt dann niemand etwas, um sie zu beheben?
https://www.thestar.com/business/opinion/every-level-of-government-admits-theres-a-gta-housing-crisis-so-why-is-no-one/article_6971bd92-9c40-46e1-b1ed-053a3e9507ab.html
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The individuals in the government have too much money tied up in real estate amd would lose exorbitant amounts of money if they fixed it
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The GTA is segmented into wards. And each ward is given its own representative.
The people living in the most expensive areas of the city, don’t want to live next to poorer people, so they vote for representatives that block development in their wards.
If one ward does this, it’s not that big a deal. But when you have most wards doing this, you get a housing crisis.
There are many people who *should* be living in Toronto, but due to the inadequate housing they buy in the surrounding cities.
And then people who *should* be living in the surrounding cities end up displacing people even further out.
It would take an entire cultural shift to fix the problem. As currently, a government that took the housing crisis seriously would get swiftly voted out.
Because the people who have the power to fix it would have to do something fundamentally unselfish. And they are the same people who got where they are by being awfully selfish. They don’t care. The crisis rewards them. The Most Selfish Generation™ is, paradoxically, non-self-aware.