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New B.C. NDP cabinet to focus on 'kitchen table' issues, premier says - Ahead of cabinet swearing in Monday, David Eby draws 'bright line' on who he will work with amid slim majority (www.cbc.ca)

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"Our hands are outstretched to any MLA that wants to work with us on [our] key priorities with just one bright line exception: we will not tolerate hate, discrimination, conspiracy theory garbage."

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 12 hours ago

Vienna has something like 40% of all units as public housing, and decade waitlists where you have to already live in the city to be eligible to be on the lists. Singapore is closer to 90% and still has waitlists, requiring you to get married to get priority and even that can take a couple years.

How exactly does your proposal somehow fix that situation?

I've seen no situation in which building public housing of any amount becomes anything but a lottery for the poor, and here especially with all the land already privately owned it would be prohibitively expensive to get to even 10% public housing, let alone the larger amounts seen in some of these other places.

No, the real answer lies with crashing house prices directly. It's just a Band-Aid we're going to have to rip off at some point, and it's going to fucking hurt.