{"id":548,"date":"2024-02-07T17:21:08","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T22:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tim-link.c21.ca\/?p=548"},"modified":"2024-02-13T14:42:34","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T19:42:34","slug":"shifting-perspective-housing-as-a-home-not-just-an-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tim-link.c21.ca\/fr-ca\/2024\/02\/07\/shifting-perspective-housing-as-a-home-not-just-an-investment","title":{"rendered":"Shifting Perspective:  Housing as a Home, NOT JUST AN INVESTMENT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Currently Canada faces housing affordability challenges.\u00a0 This may be due to housing being treated as an investment rather than a home.\u00a0 As a result, homeownership costs remain high, and landlords have substantial rent-raising power.\u00a0 <strong>Solutions include<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>(1)\u00a0 supporting non-market housing<\/p>\n<p>(2)\u00a0 using federal land for affordability housing, and acquiring more public land<\/p>\n<p>(3)\u00a0 Lowering production costs through measures like reducing developer profits<\/p>\n<p>(4)\u00a0 waiving fees<\/p>\n<p>(5)\u00a0 eliminating GST on rental housing<\/p>\n<p>Other solutions include addressing Indigenous housing needs and setting specific targets for vulnerable groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Currently Canada faces housing affordability challenges.\u00a0 This may be due to housing being treated as an investment rather than a home.\u00a0 As a result, homeownership costs remain high, and landlords have substantial rent-raising power.\u00a0 Solutions include: (1)\u00a0 supporting non-market housing (2)\u00a0 using federal land for affordability housing, and acquiring more public land (3)\u00a0 Lowering production [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17181,"featured_media":466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim-link.c21.ca\/fr-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim-link.c21.ca\/fr-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim-link.c21.ca\/fr-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim-link.c21.ca\/fr-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim-link.c21.ca\/fr-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tim-link.c21.ca\/fr-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":625,"href":"https:\/\/tim-link.c21.ca\/fr-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions\/625"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim-link.c21.ca\/fr-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim-link.c21.ca\/fr-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim-link.c21.ca\/fr-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim-link.c21.ca\/fr-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}