From 1972 onward, between 10-20 percent of all housing built in Canada was public, non-profit, or co-operative owned. These units came with various affordability covenants that anchored prices. Suddenly, private landlords had to compete with a robust public sector that prioritized affordability instead of wealth extraction, lowering costs for everyone.

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Renters could have their monthly payments subsidized through the Assisted Rental Program (ARP).

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Low-income folks who wanted to own a home could secure below-market rate mortgages directly from the federal government, or have their private mortgages subsidized through the Assisted Home Ownership Program (AHOP).

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In Toronto, where participation in FHAP programs was high, real housing costs fell by 30 percent between 1974 and 1978.

no no no just do thirty year mortgages it’ll be fine

I tried this with Gemini. Regardless of the number of rs in a word (zero to 3), it said two.

Earlier this month the government changed one of its rules on mortgage payments, allowing first-time buyers or people purchasing a newly-built home to take loans with 30-year amortizations, instead of 25 years.

Although the move is intended to lower monthly payments and make home ownership affordable to more people, critics say it may have opposite effect by boosting demand and raising prices.

It’s hard to see how this won’t increase prices and costs for buyers. It clearly benefits lenders, but everyone else will pay more.

There are a tonne of realities that are very close to ours are populated by cockroaches and mutants.

Synergy can be pretty good. I think it syncs clipboards and stuff like that, doesn’t it?

be way more based if the porn star, mossad agent, and general were the same person

I can’t speak for 404 Media, but the rest of them build products that people enjoy using. They fill a niche that the users appreciate and do a good job at it.

It’s hard to fault people for liking things.

Gotta keep those waves away from their delicate grey matter.

That or their phone has shitty palm detection and will unwittingly treat their face as a touch if they hold it too close.

armband is sus

credible

Chinese companies stealing American technologies could lead to the former being able to produce something for cheap, which, … will allow an everyday person to have a better bargain.

While the company that originally created the product will collapse, putting people out of work and weakening the American economy.

That’s basically what the globalization movement from the 1980s and 90s was. Jobs may move overseas, but think of the cheap shit you can buy!The hollowing out of Western economies has led to the political moment we’re in now.

We knew it was wrong in the 90s, which is why edgelords like this dude (and Trudeau) were into it.

lucky guess

I came over in the API exodus. Lemmy lacks niche content, so I went back to Reddit. I stick around here because I’m so used to Sync.

I have an Oral-B, and the head replacements are CAD$45. I’d get this, but I feel like I’d be wasting the toothbrush I already bought. 😞

Kinda surprising that this comment got downvotes on this video.

His ideas aren’t monetizable. They’re a throwback to the golden age when tools and utilities were built for passion or need.

Now, tooling is built by for-profit corporations. It satisfies users enough that there isn’t enough room for passion projects. For-profit tooling tends to get usability right.

Look at the fediverse: it’s a workable system that users would be fine with, if more usable for-profit alternatives didn’t exist.

Way too credible for ncd

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If it had worked, it would have been cool. Sadly, it often failed to register movements.