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I dont think this is enforceable under the current rules.

My landlord is an anonymous person living in China. For all I know they could be some large corporation. I only have a point of contact as a local Chinese owned real-estate company. They gave me the contact info to somone out in BC who they said was the owner.

I had to call with the person in BC when i moved in. that person who is on the lease as the owner, mentioned they where not the owner but the daughter of somone living in China who was the actual owner.

After a Google search they person I had spoken with turns out to be a “wealth and property manager” who apprently handles properties for investors. I suspect they are “the daughter” of a lot of clients looking to own property here.

So with foreign investors owning land via proxies who are themselves working through proxies. How do we even know who owns what anymore?

We need the standard leases to be mandatory and somthing that cannot be modified without exemption provided by a stronger landlord Tennant board.

I wonder if we could then make it so all leases needed to be registered with the board. Eatch requiring a lease recording fee wich could be used to fund the LTB. This whould also give them some power. If a landlord has a bad history, or is not providing proof of ownership they could just deny leasing agreements making landlords unable to rent out properties.

Hotdogs fails to pay for its new body guards. Next panel is just 4 fattened ninja kitties

Thanks I’ll set a reminder to check it in a few months.

Thank you for letting us know. I can react badly to loud noises. One if of these went off for an amber alert at 2am and I wasn’t able to sleep right for days later. This noise in particular just freaks me the hec out.

He is the purple one. He will do what he wants.

Ah that makes sense. I was just reading about that same kind of issue affecting commercial pilots. Both jobs have extreamly high training/education cost then leave students in low paying jobs for a long stretch of their early careers. Both jobs also have foreign countries paying way better then what we are offering. (The documentary was about the US but I assume we are not better off)

Sorry if I missed this in the article. But what is the reason we can’t just expand the number of residents? It seems like the issue isn’t foreign intrest taking the slot, but that there isn’t enough slots to meet demand. Wich seems like a thing we should be able to fix.

I’m having trouble with the “if you need more housing, rewarding development is what you need to do.” Part

From my limited understanding the purpose of a developer is to do speculative research to determine what building ideas they can make a profit off. They pay the builders and then find a buyer for the finished product.

So I can see how removing the gst can help motivate the building of apartments. but is that really the best strategy? It seems like a gamble to me. If it’s still more profitable to build over priced condos they’d stick to that. Having affordable apartments near by those condos may lower the demand for expensive condos. So it may not be in the best intrest of developers to make them, let alone make them last.

We’d need somthing a little more systemic. Somthing not dependent on doing the profitable, thing but doing what is nessary to ensure there is quality affordable housing.

So does this only benfit building developers? Seems like another rich getting richer situation.

It’s terrible enough this merger was allowed to even happen, now we are paying for it in what I am guessing is tax dollars.

At what point will we be replacing the maple leaf with the rogers logo?

Same. Quit FB a few years ago. Never bothered with Instagram, or Twitter or really anything with my real identity.

However I used FB for nearly 15 years. I got a new job so I wanted to clean as much public facing data as I could, including all the “intrest” FB had decided I had. I’m not sure if its the same now but Facebook used to just keep a list of stuff you where “interested” in based on your browsing history (even outside of FB). Often it was inaccurate. I think ads or somthing whould hijack the algorithm to add whatever they wanted, youd have to clear it out every once and awhile.

After doing this my feed started showing me hate groups, alt right nonsense and images of child abuse material. I realized this meant, that in cases where Facebook had no listed intrest for somebody, this is the ads that it whould use, this was the core of what Facebook was. I nuked the account and never looked back. Honestly, great decision and I’ve never once regretted it.

Being from Kitchener/waterloo I see there’s definetly a student housing issue and it affects the area badly. But also see the proposed solution as blunt and likley ineffective.

With 2 universities and a college that area has it pretty rough with housing. I had to move into my dad’s basement for a few years despite having a good job. I could afford a place but there was no where else to actually live.

Many homes close to the college apprently had 10 people living per room, you see places with like cars filling the parking lot and the lawns. The fire department whould demand evictions but that usually never takes.

The universities have a lot of huge condos and student housing near them but it seems every year we’d get news of one of the buildings not being done on time and hubdreds of student’s ending up having to live out of hotels. This also stresses the transit system and a lot of services. Then waterloo becomes a ghost town in the off seasons.

Of course for non students the cities become a mess of temporary rentals, and explotive landlords. There’s also the massive street parties that whould drain the police force budget.

Now in cases like this I’m not suggesting less student visas but schools need to coordinate with the cities to ensure there is enough housing in the area for the number of students they intend to intake. Though I’m not really sure how to make that fair as KW seemed to favour one school over the others. Keeping this coordination free if blatant corruption is going to take effort and require the setting of some standards potentially on a national level.

Fortunately, there’s been solutions other to this. Remote learning, when available, reduces the stains a lot and is becoming a popular option. It’s cheaper for rhe schools and the learners.

I also know schools have been decentalizing with campus spreading out across the city instead if just having one massive campus. Though this can make things more difficult for staff and learner, often needing a private transit setup. The benefit is that it spreads the housing needs a little and reduces strain on the public transit systems.

However, I still think the best option may be to limit the number of housing dependant students eatch school can take regardless of a visa.

Can confirm it’s happening in Toronto not 5k but they don’t even seem to guarantee appointment times or that your getting an actual doctor. And given how hard it is to get a family doctor here I’m almost desperate enough to pay it.

Evidence: https://www.careand.ca/family-practice