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Lily Eggink
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CHP will make housing more affordable through the reduction of taxes and cost of living and foreign owned property.
Owning one’s own home is perhaps one of the highest priority goals of most Canadians.
In some of Canada’s largest cities, this goal has become almost impossible due to soaring prices and the other costs of living. Even renting or leasing a home within cities like Vancouver and Toronto has become so expensive that many young couples starting out feel they have no choice regarding childcare but feel compelled to use childcare services to allow both parents to work outside the home.
Aside from the stresses created by having to manage two work schedules, there are additional transportation costs and most importantly a reduction in the amount of quality family time and increased influence of other, non-family members on child development.
The high cost of housing has also discouraged many low-income citizens from even the dream of home ownership. In combination with unemployment or under-employment, drug use, mental illness and broken, dysfunctional families, high housing costs have contributed to the number of people choosing to live on the streets rather than face 32 the challenges of finding a safe, secure place to live.
Many times, it can be said that “homelessness” is not the same as “houselessness”. Some of the people now living on the street could be living under an existing roof if their families had managed to stay together. There are also many empty houses on rural farmland and in urban towns and cities.
Real estate speculation and often foreign investment in Canadian properties have had a significant role in the surge in housing prices. Red tape, bureaucratic delays and short-sighted zoning restrictions have also made construction of new housing more expensive.
A CHP government would take steps to reduce foreign ownership of Canadian homes, businesses and farms. This would help to lower housing costs. We would also take steps to strengthen the family unit, reduce divorce and broken homes, restore a sense of hope and purpose to young people and make stay-at-home parenting more affordable.
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Conservateur
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Remove the requirement to report home sales to the CRA
Libéral
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Lower the GST on homes between $1M and $1.5M for first-time homebuyers