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The current system was working fine until the government mismanaged things.
Canada has had too many immigrants and foreign students imported by the federal government too quickly combined with no regulation for people buying investment property to take advantage of the rising housing prices, whether domestic or foreign owned. The demand has spiraled out of the control, much faster than new builds can keep up, especially with government red tape.
We could argue that some of this has to do with corruption by developers and banks lobbying the government.
But obviously this corruption wouldn't go away if the government becomes their only client regarding housing, nor would it go away if the entire economy became communist as you would advocate, as all real world communist countries have shown, including the reasons for the collapse of the USSR.
No its an example of government housing mismanagement.
So far you've ignored all problems that will occur with public ownership of the real estate sector and greatly oversimplified a complex set of variables. The complete lack of foresight and understanding of unintended consequences regarding this variables proves my point that you have absolutely no idea what will occur if housing was 100% socialized, including whether it will be better or not than the current system, or the current system if it were better regulated and managed. And the vast majority of Canadians agree.
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The current population of Vietnam in2024 is 99,497,680, a 0.65% increase from 2023. The population of Vietnam in 2023 was 98,858,950, a 0.68% increase from 2022. The population of Vietnam in 2022 was 98,186,856, a 0.74% increase from 2021. The population of Vietnam in 2021 was 97,468,029, a 0.85% increase from 2020.
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This is not an example of low income housing for the masses.
Private housing has a profit motive to make people do things like this. The person running the public housing has no such incentive.
And private landlords have an incentive to not do repairs at all. This is called “reducing your overhead”.
And landlords do not fire themselves, so in the real world right now, these problems already exist and, in fact, are bigger problems,
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late wrote:
Russia is conquering countries, and if they get Ukraine, what comes after that is NATO.
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He's been talking about Poland, and that's one of the countries Russia always wants.
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The Equality Act 2010 says you must not be discriminated against because of your race.
In the Equality Act, race can mean your colour, or your nationality (including your citizenship). It can also mean your ethnic or national origins, which may not be the same as your current nationality. For example, you may have Chinese national origins and be living in Britain with a British passport.
Race also covers ethnic and racial groups. This means a group of people who all share the same protected characteristic of ethnicity or race.
A racial group can be made up of two or more distinct racial groups, for example black Britons, British Asians, British Sikhs, British Jews, Romany Gypsies and Irish Travellers.
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Charles Hugh Smith wrote:
...The enormous profitability of edible snacks is mirrored in all the other manifestations of America the Snackable: our daily lives are now composed of one bite-sized addictive snack of social media, novelty memes, political opinion, financial data-snacks and pundits' opinions and snackable videos after another.
Attention spans and the ability to grasp complex issues have withered to snack-size, and whatever is being marketed as "ideas" are as devoid of value as an empty-calorie snack...
6. The snack is a legal addictive product as the snack has been designed to hijack humans' innate receptors for sugar, salt and fat and satisfying mouthfeel. (Bet ya can't have just one.)
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Israel Gaza war: EU says starvation being used as a weapon
Starvation is being used as a weapon of war in Gaza, the EU's foreign policy chief has claimed.
Josep Borrell described the lack of aid entering the territory as a "manmade" disaster.
A Spanish ship carrying desperately needed food supplies has left Cyprus for Gaza, but the UN says this cannot replace the delivery of aid by land.
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has meanwhile vowed to press on with an offensive in southern Gaza.
The quickest, most effective way to get aid into the territory is by road, but aid agencies say Israeli restrictions mean a fraction of what is needed is getting in.
Attention has instead shifted towards alternative routes including sea and air drops.
On Tuesday, a UN World Food Programme convoy used a land route to deliver aid to northern Gaza for the first time in three weeks.
The trucks used an Israeli military road running along Gaza's border fence, Jamie McGoldrick, UN aid coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory, told Reuters.
Enough food for 25,000 people was delivered to Gaza City, with WFP spokesperson Shaza Moghraby saying they were hoping to "scale up" deliveries, but "need access to be regular and consistent".
Israel says it is not to blame for Gaza's food shortages as it is allowing aid through two crossings in the south.
But addressing the UN Security Council in New York on Tuesday, Mr Borrell said the humanitarian crisis in the territory was as a result of a lack of viable land routes.
"We are now facing a population fighting for their own survival," he said.
"Humanitarian assistance needs to get into Gaza, and the European Union is working as much as we can in order to make it possible.
"[The humanitarian crisis is] manmade and when we look for alternative ways of providing support by sea, by air, we have to remind [ourselves] that we have to do it because the natural way of providing support through roads is being... artificially closed.
"Starvation is being used as a war arm and when we condemned this happening in Ukraine, we have to use the same words for what is happening in Gaza."
His comments come after the UN warned at least 576,000 people in Gaza - one quarter of the population - were one step away from famine.
The territory's Hamas-run health ministry says at least 27 people, many of them children, have died as a result of malnutrition and dehydration at hospitals there in the last two weeks.
Currently en route to help is the Spanish ship the Open Arms, which set sail from Larnaca just before 09:00 (07:00 GMT) on Tuesday towing a barge loaded with 200 tonnes of food supplies.
While it is at sea, Palestinians working for World Central Kitchen (WCK) will continue building a jetty at an undisclosed location on Gaza's coast, which will be used to offload the aid.
A US military ship, General Frank S Besson, is also sailing towards the Middle East carrying equipment to build a temporary pier, which WCK says is unrelated to its own project.
Israel has welcomed the creation of the maritime corridor and said it was facilitating the transfer of aid to Gaza while its forces continued to fight Hamas.
Mr Netanyahu reiterated on Tuesday that Israel would press ahead with its military campaign into Rafah, Gaza's most southerly city located near the border with Egypt.
"We will finish the job in Rafah while enabling the civilian population to get out of harm's way," he said in a video address to a conference of the pro-Israel Aipac organisation in Washington on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, the UK's Foreign Secretary, Lord Cameron, has urged Israel to open the major port of Ashdod - one of the country's three main cargo ports located just south of Tel Aviv - to seaborne aid deliveries destined for Gaza.
The war in Gaza began when Hamas gunmen attacked southern Israel on 7 October, killing about 1,200 people and seizing 253 hostages.
More than 31,180 people have been killed in Gaza since then, the Hamas-run health ministry there says.
Weeks of talks involving US, Qatari and Egyptian mediators have failed to bring about a ceasefire or hostage exchange deal.
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Haitians tried to install quality leadership chosen by them. But the US government intervened severely all the time.
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...Debord traces the development of a modern society in which authentic social life has been replaced with its representation: "All that once was directly lived has become mere representation."[2] Debord argues that the history of social life can be understood as "the decline of being into having, and having into merely appearing."[3] This condition, according to Debord, is the "historical moment at which the commodity completes its colonization of social life."[4]
The spectacle is the inverted image of society in which relations between commodities have supplanted relations between people, in which "passive identification with the spectacle supplants genuine activity". "The spectacle is not a collection of images," Debord writes, "rather, it is a social relation among people, mediated by images."....
Statistics: Posted by QatzelOk — 18 Mar 2024 16:11
There aren't any legal restrictions on foreigners buying property in the UK. ² This means almost anyone can buy a property there, regardless of nationality. You don't need a visa to invest in UK property either, although of course you will need one if you're buying a home with the intention of living in it.
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And yes, one issue with actual law of war is that it can extend conflicts. Another one is that it can in practice encourage operating within civilian areas.
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Consecutive Canadian Prime Ministers can't even manage their own residence, let alone every property in the country. They've been waffling around renovating the Prime Minister's residence for decades and it hasn't been lived in for many years.
Their entire government procurement apparatus is completely dysfunctional and it takes forever to procure most anything significant, but you want them to run our housing sector?
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/2 ... e-00118911
And what happens when the public servant managing the property kicks the recent immigrant out so his kid can move in?
Or gives their parking spot to someone else, or refuses to mow the grass, or asks for bribes?
And what is the incentive for the property manager to do repairs or care if another tenant is making lots of noise in the middle of the night? It's not like the unionized public servant is going to get fired for not doing his job well, and there's no financial incentive for them to care.
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Cartertonian wrote:
funding from Westminster
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Do you disagree that colonialism was the main reason why some countries are developed and others are not?
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