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by snapplebobapple 838 days ago
We are not building plenty of housing. We started the most houses we have since 1973 in 2021, but we aren't setting any records (Canada's population in 1973 was ~23 million vs ~40 million today). (for reference: https://www.statista.com/statistics/198040/total-number-of-c...) We probably need to double or triple our output for a decade to bring housing per capita back into line with a balanced market.

What we are doing is massively overpaying for land and massively overpaying for government ineptitude on each of those units, which is why housing is such a large part of the GDP when it is embarrassing on an actual production basis.