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Foreigners Are Not The Root Cause For Canadian Housing Crisis?

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Assuming “TheĀ Housing CrashĀ Conspiracy Theory” is real, then foreign investors aren’t really the most significantĀ factor.

BecauseĀ foreigners made up of just about 5% of the real estate purchases in Canada.

That said, is 5% such a significant number (that can cause a severe housing crisis)?


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Early data shows foreign nationals buying 5% of Metro Vancouver homes sold

CBC.caĀ – ā€ŽJul 7, 2016ā€Ž
Preliminary data collected by the B.C. government on foreign investment in the province’s sizzling real estate market shows that in Metro Vancouver five per cent of allreal estate purchases were made by foreign buyers, almost all of them Chinese …

Canada’s housing crisis: The time for study has passedĀ 
Majority of foreign buyers from China, new real estate data revealsĀ 
Preliminary government data on Vancouver home sales says less than five percent go to foreign nationalsĀ 

The question remains … Is 5% such a big deal?

Foreign buyers snapped up 5% of B.C.’s real estate deals in June

Either I buy real estate in Canada with the cash, or I’d just burn the hell out of dirty money? Image Source
Financial Post – Jul 8, 2016
The new data comes as Canada’s largest credit union warned that young workers who have long since abandoned hope of owning a home in the Vancouver area are also now being priced out of the city’s rental market. A new report from Vancity explores theĀ …
What now? Bar foreigners from buying real estate in this country?

Daphne Bramham: Should foreign welcome mat be rolled up until affordable housing is addressed?

Calgary Herald – Jul 8, 2016
This lineup of condo buyers stands outside the showroom of “Flo”, an Omni development in Richmond. Sun photo by Stuart Davis … Foreign investment and immigrants have been courted and encouraged long beforeĀ Canada was even a country. It’s rarely notĀ .
Is it fair to make investors from mainland China scapegoats for our housing woe?

Race and real estate: how hot Chinese money is makingĀ Vancouver unlivable

The Guardian – ā€ŽJul 7, 2016ā€Ž
She’s browsing online real estate listings in a cafe near Vancouver’s City Hall. Behind her, the mountains of the North Shore – the view that launched a thousand bidding wars – rise through mist.
Wealthy foreigners: “We don’t just buy houses, we buy these beasts as well …”
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Indeed a catch-22 situation …Ā Big headache ahead.

What is yourĀ take based on this finding?

What is the politically correct actions forĀ Liberals to consider?


Asking one more time, do you want the cold hard Renminbi to flow into this land or not? Yes or no …? Ā Image Source

If 5% foreign investment is no big deal (and not the major factor behindĀ theĀ housing crisis as perĀ “TheĀ Housing CrashĀ Conspiracy Theory”), then it looks like we better off focus on the mainĀ culpritsĀ a.k.aĀ the infamous “House-Flippers” – these are mainly locals and whoĀ have beenĀ piling up debtsĀ higher than the Himalaya …

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