How Canada’s media manufactures sympathy for the landlord class
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- čas přidán 14. 05. 2024
- Canada's media is full of sob stories about the supposed plight of landlords.
It isn’t real journalism-it’s an effort to disguise the exploitation of the housing market.
Martin Lukacs explains how the media teaches us to pity the landlord class, rather than be pissed at them.
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most MPs are landlord, home shortage and labour shortage are by design
Well PPoilievre's family business is Real Estate and his biggest donors are wealthy real estate developers so I can say for sure there's ONE MP who's a problem and if he gets in as PM you can expect him to do what he did the last time he was Housing Minister in the Harper Cabinet and only build SIX HOUSES!
Well this renewed my hate in landlords.
In New Brunswick I remember years ago it was discovered that boarding house tenants weren't even included in the Residential Tenants Act. Meaning, they LITERALLY had no rights at all. An activist at the time talked about how they wouldn't talk to him because he was a blogger and the house 'managers' were always watching.
I didn't do much, but my only contribution to his complaints was that I read the act and noticed that ALL the government had to do was add ONE LINE to the RTA. It took SIX YEARS and two administrations, and then we discovered that in most cities they were making boarding houses illegal anyway.
Just for some perspective, I remember researching and the legislation granted the right to build a natural gas pipeline across the province got its first reading, second, third, and Royal Assent and was enacted in ONE DAY.
What kills me is that the people who only watch SOCIAL media are right about mainstream media, but for the OPPOSITELY wrong reason. They think media is some bunch of communist liberals, which is just outrightly crazy. But they ARE right about how shitty they are.
Thanks for sharing this. I don't know if you're some sort of journalist (you certainly did a lot of research), but it may make sense to publish this somewhere.
It's an old joke that a liberal supports all social causes except the one going on right now. 😂 If boarding houses have been legislated away and this is old news, it's likely that it won't get censored too heavily online. And hopefully it will lead to some class consciousness.
@@ChasmChaos No, I'm no journalist, this was all done 'online' at a blogger at the time. I wrote the story to ALL the media and the other reason I know about how shitty media is, is that in those six years we could NEVER get it into the media. I was living in ontario at the time and did ONE radio show, where the radio hosts main interest was "if your in ontario why do you even give a shit?"
That cynicism against media going on now is WELL deserved, sadly people now are not only UN informed but MIS informed. This show started well but seems to be veering into the "this is my opinion about shit" territory, which is now almost ALL media consists of.
@@mikearchibald744 you are a journalist in my books. Mainstream journalists are propagandists.
If you still have the blog post up, please share it here (and Twitter and Reddit and TikTok...)
Yes! Thank you so much. So sick of this.
Yep. Whenever I see a report on a "victimized landlord", especially now in the middle of a housing crisis, my BS detector immediately goes off.
I love a report from a few years back about toronto investor buying up any house he could down in windsor sight unseen because he would always make more on rent than the mortgage. 27 homes this "poor guy" owns in windsor alone. He didn't like the interest rates going up though, cut into his margins. This is when in 10 years houses went up by 4X in this region. I sold my first home for 127K in 2014 (bought it in 2001 for 113K) and its now worth about 550-600K That is insane.
My feeling is that predatory landlords should face legal and financial penalties that are shockingly severe. Landlording should be transformed into a very precarious, very risky activity. If that results in a reduced incentive for private developers to build new units, as landlord groups are always saying will happen, then so much the better. Then governments can get back into the business of building public housing on a very large scale.
I agree, but I also see the contradiction in the fact that the landlord class is also the political class (whether an individual started off as a landlord and then entered politics or vice versa is immaterial). There is no way to reform our way out of this.
@@ChasmChaos Yep, Poilievre's family business is Real Estate and his biggest donors are among wealthy real estate developers. When he was housing minister in the Harper cabinet he only built SIX HOUSES. On and on and on.
It gets me wondering 🤔 how many newsreaders and news executives are landlords? I'm willing to bet it's a great deal of them considering the coverage of the "poor landlord" on Canadian TV.
Poilievre's family business is Real Estate and his biggest donors are among wealthy real estate developers. When he was housing minister he only built SIX HOUSES. He voted NO on housing initiatives put forth by Trudeau and Singh. His 'pay as you go' housing plan holds provinces hostage to developers but only guarantees affordability of those homes for FIVE YEARS. See the scam? He stands around calling simple homes 'shacks' but he lives on the taxpayer's dime in Stornoway mansion while raking it in through his famiily's real estate investments. Just an FYI.
Newsreaders are actors. Thats it. The fiction of a newsreader running stories and editing is just ludicrous. And basically they couldn't run other stories even if they wanted to.
Wow, those newsreaders must be gazillionaires.
My rich cousin said they made tons of money but it was a pain in the ass. They only did it to give his wife something to do.
A teachers Salary has been a top earner at 90K+ depending on grade level and dept head etc. But that is hardly meagre. My friend that had 2 teacher parents where way better off than anyone I knew other than tradespeople at the big 3, and that was from working 12 hour shift work.
Being a teacher also meant that your parents before them may have paid or help to pay for your education to get to be in a higher education and salary career. Inheritable money is a secondary issue to the housing crisis.
Nothing stops you from being a teacher
@@hexxlaxx2992 I got into the trades at 18. But we have watched wage rollbacks and stagnant raises over the last 30 years. Where we once competed with a teacher and a bit of overtime, we now have to work an extra 25% of OT to keep up. That is an entire day and then some. 52-55 hours all year and we can hit 90,000 if we don't have slow periods, but you give up a lot of your life for that. Your body at 50 is a mess from hard labour and saturdays are worked to put a little something away in case of a layoff.
My parents couldn't afford to send me off to university. Would loved to have studied History and Physics. My grades were good enough to get me in but not good enough for scholarships. I went with a free education in the automotive sector.
@@hexxlaxx2992 I had a reply but youtube thought it was unimportant and deleted it.
@@hexxlaxx2992 Except age, education, and where you are living.
My parents did it once, as the article states, there ARE some small time landlords, but for some reason the argument 'well the good ones wont be hurt by this legislation' never comes up.
It was SOMETIMES a pain in the ass. They still complain about the ONE horrible tenant they had, older middle aged guy, the pain in the ass tenant who couldn't change a lightbulb, but for most of it they had students who were dream tenants who would even paint it.
But its like with truckers or farmers or soldiers, if you try to criticize an industry, out come the "how dare you harass this poor....."
If they don't like it they can always sell. No sympathy from me.
When a tenant doesn't pay his rent he should be evicted the next month.
@@hexxlaxx2992 Should we also arrest landlords when they don't fix things on time?
@@hedgehog_fox As long as tenants who break things are arrested too
You can't break something that was already broken.
@@blurtam188 please tell me you aren't a landlord 😅 If you are, here's a hot tip. Rents and insurance price wear-and-tear into the equation. Don't scream at your tenant if something breaks, just like you wouldn't scream at your family if they break something.
Watch the video again till you internalize that 99% of tenants are good tenants. If something breaks, fix it without the drama.
Excellent commentary... we had to leave Canada in order to find a location where we could survive on my CPP/OAS. We now rent a beautiful 2 bedroom 2 bathroom Casita in the hills of Panama for 50% LESS than what we were paying for a 1 bedroom apartment in Victoria, BC. Incredible! To the Canadian landlords (vultures) I say... "better call the waaaaahhhhmbulance!"
I am glad you're doing well. This is a great example of how greedy landlords force people to leave their hometowns and eventually force other people to leave their hometowns. The rising cost of housing in Panama will eventually force a Panama resident to have to leave.
All of us are free, or none of us are free.
excellent video ... we are fed up with landords crying and comtempt for tenants
Who sings that Pity the Landlords song?
Fred Hellerman - Pity The Downtrodden Landlord (1950) - copies on youtube
I wish I could 'like' this video 100x. I live in AB, and I am being reno-victed from a basement duplex. When I asked my landlady why? She said, "Because I can". The tenant next door is a senior, and she jacked up his rent by 30%. He protested that he was a senior on a fixed income. I overheard the landlady say to him, "That's not my problem".
I'd rather get effed, as a tenant, by a nameless, faceless, soulless corporation than by these "mom n' pop" landlords.
@@ChasmChaos Won't anyone think of the mom and pop parasite landlords! lol..
Karma
If you don’t like it, buy your own house. Then you would have a different perspective. After paying the down payment, mortage, insurance, property tax, and the occasional furnace breakdown, roof repair and etc… it costs money to own property, nothing wrong to make money off it.
@@kellyhou9594 GTFO its exploitation. When they commoditized housing and cancelled all public housing its how we got to where we are with greedy pigs saying NO this is fine. Mostly because better than 50% of the MP, and MPPS/MLA own rental units. Its a get rich quick scheme. It cost money to own properties but most landlords don't do repairs till absolutely required and at that point it is more damaged than it would have been if it was inspected and repaired in a timely fashion.
Sorry look at this damage, gonna have to raise the rent(which landlords writeoff, unlike a mortgage) to pay for this! Otherwise you can just go buy yourself your own home! Because when there is a new roof that goes on, its when the landlord say I HAVE to raise you rent this year, do you see how bad the roof was. It was expensive and I need to pay for that somehow. And because its a captured market, if they won't pay, someone else will. So who cares people are disposable, and any cost I MIGHT have to absorb i will just pass to the renter, AND write off on my taxes, unlike home ownership.
So you can pay 500,000 for a starter home that is falling in on itself at 10X your annual gross, unlike when I bought mine at only 3X my annual gross or you can pay rents that have become jacked so high because there is no competition and people are desperate to have a roof over their head. Its why you see people living in motorhomes at walmarts, or simply homeless and couchsurfing while having a job. Rent in my area is 1,300-1,700 for 2 bedroom apartment. Many are not inclusive of hyrdo. How is it 2 weeks net pay to rent? DO you think it cost that much for an apartments upkeep, and propertytax It doesn't I can assure you.
HOUSING is a HUMAN RIGHT in the UN charter, so yes there is something wrong with making money and exploiting people. In the 1800's it was called rent seeking and was frowned on because it was exploitative of the poor and seen as lazy for not doing an actual job. Passive income was immoral because you did nothing to earn it. The game monopoly was originally called landlords and was a warning not an instruction manual.
If our government wasn't captured by the wealthy, public housing would have kept prices of all housing in check and you might have a valid point. By limiting supply and raising demand by importing cheap labour for jobs that canadians won't do(for a held down min wage thanks to Harris of 6.75 for 9 years) or live with 3-5 people a room and multiple families like immigrant and migrants do, pushes up housing prices and creates more white elephant housing. We had cheap housing when we built home for vets coming home. It may have only been 6 rooms, but you could house a small family and it was built FREE for the vets. Now we say home must be a cash cow that is your best bet for being wealthy later because it has infinite growth unlike most actual markets that collapse in every "business cycle"
Now remember this when you go to vote. Poilievre's family's business is Real Estate. When PP was housing minister he only built SIX HOUSES. His biggest donors are among big REAL ESTATE. His 'pay as you go' housing plan is ridiculous. It holds provinces responsible to DEVELOPERS and only guarantees affordability of those homes for FIVE YEARS. Trudeau and Singh put forth housing initiatives that PP and the Cons voted NO on. Get the picture? AND if anyone wants to know, these are the major Right Wing leaning news organizations: Post Media Network which includes, The National Post, The Financial Post, and The Sun. Cheers!
Yeah, and supposedly those media are in Trudeau's pocket. But thats a convenient fiction, Pollievre was NEVER 'housing minister', Harper had no housing minister, he was minister for 'communities' which happened to include housing as a non entity.
While I wouldn't doubt that the marketling blitz the conservatives put on is having an effect, it wouldn't surprise me at all if the polling industry is in on the graft in some way as well.
Hell I don't even LIKE Trudeau and yet this constant Trudeau bashing reminds me of the Charlottetown Accord where EVERY media, party, adn group in the country was saying if we don't vote yes the world will end.
If voting changed anything, they would make it illegal.
The working class gets wins by organizing and showing they are united. That gets whichever clown happens to be in office to hastily backtrack and make some concessions.
Loansharks are also suffering so much, maybe they should also get media sympathy
Kudos to The Breach for producing this explainer video series
Excellent video, I have noticed this very one sided pro landlord coverage.
Applause. Commenting to help the algorithm. Make this go viral.
The property owners have way WAY more power than the tenants.
Come to Florida and see just how good you have it. I mean they could always not own more property than they need...
What is the song clip? Sounds Stompin' Tom-ish?
Answering my own question (answer posted by someone else here): Fred Hellerman - Pity The Downtrodden Landlord (1950)
I was waiting for the report on tenants and im still waiting if they're really been fair in their reporting.
The real victims 😂
You make some excellent points. I wonder what the agenda is? I have heard that most media outlets are owned by rich people (Conrad Black etc?) so I guess there is that. I miss the days when journalism aimed to be unbiased.
That was never.
The agenda is clearly painting all tenants in a bad light and weakening tenant protection laws
As a landlord I can say that I have busted my butt to become a homeowner, and I put 110K into renovating my basement into a suite. In a world where our corrupt governments have debased our currencies, being a landlord and owning properties is one of the only ways for self employed people such as myself to build wealth. It is not the landlord's fault that the government makes it so expensive to build new housing. Further more, our ridiculous zoning laws make it impossible for smaller players to create more housing. How is it that Canada is the second biggest country in the world and we have a housing crisis?
Have you tried getting a real job?
@@ArthurPencilDragon that's the best you can come up with?
@@joomlaserviceprovide you genuinely think I'd waste my time coming up with a clever insult for a landlord? Yikes
@@ArthurPencilDragon So you had time to write two lame responses but not a well reasoned or good one? Ok.....
*Waiting for Erminger to show up to screech and shill about openroom*
Tenants need strong rights and landlords need protection from grifters… What laws could balance this reasonably? How does immigration factor into the housing crisis vs corporate greed vs other factors? People of the comments how can solve this?
There should be consequences for delinquent landlords who rent out hovels and then seek to evict tenants who complain about the poor conditions. In fact, landlords should be required to deposit 25% of the rent in a repair fund.
Residential rentals should be strictly non-profit. Tax laws need to be changed to disincentivize anyone from becoming a rentier/rent-seeker. Ban HELOCs on rental properties - if you don't live in it full-time, you can't borrow against equity in it, unless 100% of the loan is used for repairs/maintenance of that same property. Better yet, just ban anyone except bona fide NPO 'housing providers' from owning more than 2 residential properties, and ban foreigners & REITs from buying. Ban MPs, MLAs, and City Councillors from being real estate "investors", because it's a gross conflict of interest. Canadian policy does the exact opposite of all of the above, in addition to pandering to developers who hold us all hostage, and why we have an affordable housing crisis.
@@lynb1022 So if the we remove any profit incentives for property owners to offer rental units, why would anyone want to offer rental units? Do you think housing should be nationalized and planned centrally in a grand communist system? I’m all for preventing price gauging, but I would never trust government with housing.
@@drewid3876 they wouldn't want to "offer" rental units, and that's exactly why we'd all be better off with out them. Without "investors" a.k.a. land-hoarders buying extra properties in order to extort other people into paying most if not all of the costs for the landlord to own them, there'd be less demand and plenty more affordable properties for tenants to buy them and pay their own mortgages. For the arguably small percentage who really don't want to own, there are bona-fide *non-profit housing providers.* The National Housing Strategy (NHS) promised rights-based legislation to implement the government’s commitment to the progressive implementation of the right to housing, and the National Housing Strategy Act received Royal Assent in June 2019. Housing is a Human Right under Article 25 of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and under Article 11.1 of the 1966 International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). Canada ratified both. But do go on playing the 70 year old neo-McCarthyist "communist" boogeyman to justify social parasitism in the form of "landlording" if it makes you feel good. If you would "never trust government with housing", perhaps you should educate yourself about Vienna's housing model (70% renters, including the middle class, all affordably and with robust tenure of tenancy rights).
Nice try. I am still not taking equity out of my house to buy a rental property and become a landlord in my old age.
Like Justin Trudeau, it's not worth the cost.
Well perhaps you missed that most of these people bought in when houses cost 200,000 and paid it off. Its entirely different for gen Y and Gen Z compared to even gen X. A house doesn't cost 400,000 in labour and materials, even with inflated post covid prices. Certainly not a 6-7 room house
Uh, Under Harper housing costs increased 60% and another 57% under Trudeau. Poilievre's family business are real estate investors. AND when PP was housing minister he only built SIX HOUSES. Trudeau and Singh put forth housing assistance initiatives and PP and the Cons voted NO. The same thing with Health Care Expansion and grocery initiatives. PP VOTED NO. So your 'like Justin Trudeau' comment is much more well placed if you say it like this . 'Like PP, it's not worth the cost'. That's a much more logical statement unless you're not paying any attention at all.
@@talktothehandreviews Good points, But I would also point out,
Prime Minister Chrétien froze federal funding to new public housing projects, in addition to reducing the social funding made available to the provinces[12] Quebec and British Columbia developed provincial policies, whilst the other provinces chose to transfer public housing authority to municipalities.[12] In 2005 the Federal Government commissioned a $110 million study to examine the effects of homelessness on social expenditure[13] The Housing First study has provided homeless people across Canada with accommodation and treatment services
Harris would then screw things up even further in Ontario. But the right wing liberals felt very comfortable with Conservative policies on Public Housing.
Vienna has an amazing public housing story where 70 percent of people use it and it is only 20-25% of your gross pay at time of rent and is fixed. Often times being passed to kids at old rates even if the parents move to something else.
@talktothehandreviews No. Before I retired, I worked in the finance space, and saw a lot of real estate deals, mostly small time landlord, and at the beginning, also nonprofits, although that dried up years ago.
So with respect to the non-profit side, I only saw their credit applications after a lot of wrangling had gone on behind the scenes with their govt source of financing. The issue there has been that most of those applications were for building new units or converting an old building to new units. The problem was that over the years, the building cost per square foot had jumped from $150 to $350. In the meantime, their balance sheets kept showing smaller net assets year over year, as govt grants remained static, even as the rents they collected and their expenses increased with inflation. Effectively they were hollowing themselves out trying to maintain what they had. The provincially backed ones were pretty bad, basically running grant to grant, with only a month's worth of cash onhand. Federally backed nonprofits started off in better shape, but by the end of the Harper govt, their balance sheets were looking like their provincial countetparts. We were either lending for these units to be built, or existing units to be bought, or giving revolving lines based on the size of their net assets. At a certain point, they simply stopped borrowing from where I worked. I don't recall a single credit application from a non-profit after 2014. The writing was on the wall for some time.
Now small-time landlords are an altogether different breed. They either had Joe jobs or were retired and drawing oas/cpp/pension, and real estate was their side gig. They mostly had very limited financial assets. Their tax returns typically showed slim profits on a cash basis from their rentals, basically a few thousand per house, with operating expenses usually just over $10k. Basically, their renters were there to subsidize them owning real estate, with the only real $$ they would make would be from capital gains when they would sell the property. Rarely would I see landlords who could make a living doing this, and those guys typically would own 10, 12 houses to do so. Of course back in my day, houses would cost $200k to $400k.
Anyhow, I am rambling on like grandpa Simpson. What annoyed me about the small time landlords was that they would inevitably borrow against their rentals after a few years in order to get the down-payment for a new property. Rarely was the small time landlord who never releveraged their rental stock. New borrowings = higher interest costs, which would be passed onto tenants. From my colleagues who stuck around after i retired, a lot of these landlords drank the variable mortgage koolaid, and had seen mortgage payments triple in the last few years. If you ever wonder why rents have increased so much..
Which gets my closing line about Trudeau. No, I cannot forgive him for not thinking about monetary policy. On a typical landlord's tax return, interest expenses used to more or less equal the operating costs of a rental property. No way that's the case now. Higher interest costs on govt debts means cost cutting in govt budgeting. The first cost cutting is in indirect govt spending, not programs managed by the civil service - grants to charities and nonprofits that are the backbone of the caring economy are the first to go.
Say what you will about PP or Smith etc. They won't screw themselves with borrowing costs. Heck, Singh might, but at least he will focus on support to nonprofits to make sure they do not bear the brunt of balancing the books. Heck, he might even bring in rules to limit landlords borrowing against equity in their rentals.
But Trudeau? He is the worst of those two type of politicians.
He is just not worth the cost.
@@tommyshanks4198 A lot of what you said doesn't fit timelines. For one, much as I hate trudeau, we had our lowest interest rate ever while he was "leading" the country. It went negative briefly. So anyone pre covid could get mortgages all day at below 3% So it may have been just regular borrowing.
Then we get Crypto King who has never had a job Skippy Polievre not showing a single solution, but he is darn good at throwing mud and hoping it sticks. "He's just not worth the cost" Con ad print. Concern trolling. While PP was busy shouting about Mandates that mainly came from provincial conservative premiers and layed it at the feds feet. People eat this up like a buck a beer. Only solution is tax cuts for the rich , P.P.rivatize anything left and deregulate.
Why would I ever trust PP when they guy gutted social services under Harper and tried(and partly succeeded) to allow more privatization of our healthcare system.
We took health professionals out of the public and they now have banker hours. Its a limited pool of people so moving from one area to another does nothing to change wait times, in fact by not working more than 8 hours during the day, and hardly anything after 4 when most people are just getting out of work, it has limited the working "manhours" of many private clinics instead of expanding it as we were guaranteed. Because human greed would solve this problem. Except many can cap out their doc pay, but supplement it by owning the clinic and attached pharmacy. Giving them hours to golf, or day trade.
Blood/imaging clinic where I live can afford to hire 2 security guards in toll booths charge $3 dollars to park, and closed by 4 pm weekdays and noon friday. Single payer but private profits.
Bad apples on both sides.
Exactly, every side has a story, the part BEFORE the mobile phone comes out and starts recording.
That's the best you can come up with? 😂
What's the hot scoop for today? Something like "water is good but too much and you down"?
@@ChasmChaos Moms basement is always a good option for lifelong losers.
@@joelmcneney5366 that quip reveals a lot more about you. The privilege of having parents who are already on the "property ladder" that even "a loser" in your mind always has a safety net
The world is what it is, not what you want it to be.
I think it's not that simple. Neither class (tenants or landlords) is categorically the victim here. Some tenants are real jerks who think paying rent is optional. On the other hand, some landlords are real jerks who reno-vict people, etc. But in the middle is a lot decent people who can make it work.
The issue in Canada is that real estate is so expensive and you get someone of limited financial means who buys an investment property and then the investment doesn't work out for them whether because of tenants not paying, the roof collapsing and the insurer not paying the claim, or even if they cannot find a tenant ... the sob stories follow. And in that situation I wish the media focused more on the financial reality that it is an investment and not all investments pan out. There is real risk in being a landlord because of the risk of any capital asset investment, especially when all your savings go into the one capital asset...
So I think the media really doesn't do the issue justice because as soon as you use the "victim" label, you've spun it. It's not black and white, it's a myriad of facts, and you cannot give that nuance in a tweet, a 3-minutes news bite, or a sob story (landlord or tenant). Investing is hard, and "just buy real estate" is one of those Canadian tropes that need to die.
The video clearly gives data from the landlords themselves showing that bad tenants are 1% of the population. Why do you insist on pulling the issue back into the realm of the subjective ("some tenants"...)?
You harp about the risks of investment, but no one is asking a landlord to stretch their neck out and take on risks.
I agree the mainstream media doesn't do the issue justice. It's simply propaganda by the landlord class. How else do you explain the microscopic focus on the 1% of bad tenants instead of just giving the facts like this video does?
@@ChasmChaosIt's a public forum, I can talk about what I want. I don't necessarily agree with the video and I think trying to make the conversation about who is the bigger victim on average is besides the point. Devolving into group politics to try to get into a one-size-fits-all solution is likely the cause of a great many problems in Canada at present... housing included.
There's a temptation in Canada and in our conversations to try to put people into victim groups and oppressor groups and I don't buy it. It's counter-productive.
If you believe every statistic you hear online, I'd say you need to think about it a little more. How does a statistic of "only 1%" of tenants are bad tenants even exist? Is the world still balanced if 1% of landlords are "bad landlords"? If so, how should the laws change?
Should it be like in some states where squatters cannot be evicted without a trial? Should it be like other states where the sheriff shows up within a day of one missed payment? I'm choosing two extremes that I think are preposterous in their own right to make my point here.
You really have to understand there is no "one-size-fits-all" solution for housing. That's the lack of nuance in this video and in the MSM.
You may notice, I haven't strictly taken a side either. I'm a tenant and don't necessarily side with tenants on all issues, and I know landlords and don't side with them on all issues.
There's a way to make up your own mind without grabbing your torch and pitch fork and trying to overthrow the "landlord class".... countries have tried that... most of them are poor police states now.
@@John_II Landlords shouldn't even EXIST. In Singapore all housing is publicly owned, what rent is paid goes to the government.
THe very idea of making a profit off of what is a human right is disgraceful. But its the real world, so what the video SHOULD emphasize is Rent Controls and legislation. Right now they ARE victims because they have no power. Legislation changes that. Quebec has better than most provinces, but canada is right now doing like the US and setting our society back more than a century.
Its interesting that Pollievre talks about giving DEVELOPERS fedreal land for cheap, but not CANADIANS. Why not sell off those federal lands for poeple to build their own housing? In the seventies we BUILT our house, while both parents worked. A house is NOT rocket science to build.
@John_II it's true that you can talk about what you want. I recommend making it coherent if you actually want a discussion (not a mandate, just a suggestion).
Having read your diatribe, I don't think we can come to an agreement if you can't accept the claim that landlords themselves make. Being a landlord is big business in Canada and if you think they're making up statistics against their own interests, then I don't know what to say.
I wasn't born yesterday, so spare me the centrist drivel. The only goal a centrist has is to perpetuate the status quo because it's in their interest.
@@ChasmChaos We're all centrists unless you are running for office, suing, or standing on a picket line. But I largely agree, thats like saying the 'there are good workers and bad workers and we should also feel for the poor employer".
Thats ridiculous, in ANY situation with such an extreme UN balance to power then emphasis goes to one side.
NOBODY is forced to be a landlord. NOBODY.
takes over a year to remove a tenant for not paying rent. the system is broken. and your just adding to the gaslighting good job.
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@@SquarishLinkpay your rent!!!
Why are you so concerned with something that landlords agree has a 1% chance of happening?
@@ChasmChaos i guess you never been that one percent. i would say its higher than one percent.
@@funmud._. anyone can say anything they want to. The fact remains that the "1% bad tenants" statistic is professional research done by landlords themselves.
If anything, they are over-counting to hedge for possible losses.
This, I feel, is largely dependent on location. Yes, there are landlords who are negligent and exploitative, no doubt. And if you can afford to buy multiple homes, you are in a different class than those who can't. BUT even as a considerate landlord, running an honest try at having some sort of retirement plan, it is NOT easy to keep rent prices down. Many tenants know nothing about maintaining a home and require constant hand holding. Materials and appliances cost more than ever and their longevity is less than ever. Being a good landlord is hard work and costs money. Therefore rent gets raised.
I'm curious why you bring up "rents get raised". This video is clearly about manufacturing consent and not about rents. If the landlord class raised rents without indulging in this sort of sophistry, this video would simply not have existed.
Tenants aren’t responsible for maintaining a home they don’t own and already pay the mortgage for lol. The hand holding is the landlords known and agreed to responsibility, as are all those expenses 😂 wild how this is being framed even in the comments on this video.
@trollundertherug4263: if landlording is proving too burdensome for you, sell up and retire.
TENANTS PAY THE MORTGAGES, meaning LANDLORDS ARE THE FREELOADERS. Land-hoarding is not "hard work", it's exploitation.
Housing is a luxury in Canada, not a necessity.
And are these justifications for theft and stealing?
What theft and stealing? Over 99% of tenants pay their rent on time.
@@zachem66 most (99%) spouses don't assault their wives either. But those who do must be imprisoned.
@@himediaunit3600 except that's not true at all. 44% of women in Canada aged 15 and older have reported some kind of abuse in their intimate partner relationship. so your analogy doesn't apply here. can't pin the tenants as the bad guy when such behaviour doesn't apply to over 99% of them. the tenants are not the problem.
I take it you're a landlord. 😅 Do you claim to be the unfortunate landlord who got the remaining 1% of bad tenants 100% of the time?
@@zachem66 You're right!
I don’t get the same feeling at all. What I see is that Canadian law protects only the $hitty landlords and the $hitty tenants. Normal landlords and normal tenants are the ones being shafted again and again.
Care to give an example? I can't even imagine how to write a failure of a law that actually benefits bad actors on both the landlord and tenant's side. Do you agree that good actors outnumber the bad? In which case why isn't the law overturned by bi-partisan support?
@ChasmChaos law? What relevance does the law have if building inspections and tenant/landlord tribunals are so underresourced they cannot deliver justice for all the wronged tenants/landlords?
For example, sometimes takes years to get bad landlords to bringing their rentals to code.
@@tommyshanks4198 it sounds like a bi-partisan issue then. What's stopping both landlords and tenants joining hands and pushing through legislature to fix those issues?
It sounds like there is significant lobbying effort dedicated to ensuring this issue isn't fixed. Who would put in that effort? It seems obvious to me that it would be the landlord class since it allows them to delay repairs and still collect rent. Landlords are aware that only 1% of tenants are a risk and they are willing to take that tiny risk if it means they get to delay repairs and keep collecting rent cheques.
Of course, I may be biased. Everyone is. I'm happy to be proven wrong if you have evidence.
It's pretty much a distraction to actually adress the true issue and that's the lack of affordable homes across the country. Supply of rental units is at an all time low
@@MrAlen6e Hi, Did you know that PP's family business is Real Estate? And his top donors are among wealthy real estate developers. When Trudeau and Singh put forth initiatives to help with housing POILIEVRE VOTED NO. When PP was housing minister under the Harper Govt he only built SIX HOMES. If elected PP has said he wants a 'pay as you go' plan for housing. That plan only guarantees affordable homes for FIVE YEARS but it forces provinces to build a quota of properties (thusly holding provinces hostage to DEVELOPERS). Just FYI.
What kind of channel is this? Ontario has some of the most draconian tenant laws.
The lefty one. Look up the rest of the material.Most definitely missing hammer and sickle in its logo.
Do you object to any of the evidence provided here?
interesting, like the media you only look at one side of the issue, you should update yourself with the laws governing rentals then take a basic economics course, clearly you have not
What do you take umbrage with here exactly? The fact is that there are a lot of sob stories by landlords in the media.
Basic economics is not a topic that is relevant here because the point is how landlords use media outlets to propagate a biased version of the story.
This video should be titled, how to demonize canadian landlords.
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