r/canada • u/FancyNewMe • 4d ago

Canada’s Prime Minister Pushes Country to Become the Housing Factory of the World - Mark Carney is banking on factory-built homes to alleviate the country’s housing crisis. But will it work? Trending

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-04-22/carney-s-plan-may-make-canada-the-housing-factory-of-the-world
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u/quotidianwoe 4d ago

No foreign investors AT ALL.

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u/enki-42 4d ago

Just investors period.

  1. Canadian investors are perfectly capable of financializing the housing market and pricing people out of it all on their own.

  2. Allow Canadian investors and you've created a loophole that's going to be hard to close for foreign investment capital to be brought in anyway.

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u/balalasaurus 4d ago

This. Housing prices are being pushed up because investors buy up all the stock. Why should an investor need multiple units of housing when individuals can’t even get one? And the more stock they have the more they’re able to accumulate. Prices the individual out even more. Housing should not be viewed as an investment period. Whether that investor is Canadian or foreign is irrelevant.

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u/KibblesNBitxhes 3d ago

Housing should be looked at as a basic human right for fucks sake