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Re:Canada bans foreign home buyers for two years by FredPret on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @03:03PM (#31087416)
Great, so every poor person or student or new worker will have to come up with downpayments and bank loans, or be homeless. Brilliant solution.
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Re:Canada bans foreign home buyers for two years by fennecfoxen on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @03:15PM (#31087559)
I think grandparent is not quite so cruel! If apartment buildings count as "commercial" (which they would in the industry lingo, which differs from the SimCity lingo) then we can just quarantine the undesirables away into a bad part of town using our Zoning laws!
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Re:Canada bans foreign home buyers for two years by Drew_ on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @06:56PM (#31090467)
Stop zoning out multi-family homes and apartment buildings and this wouldn't be a problem. Believe it or not, there are many low-income people living in cities where these things are allowed, and they're not all renting single family homes.
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