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The provincial maximum on rent-controlled apartments last year was 2.5 per cent, but Sharpe’s building has no limit because Ontario Premier Doug Ford removed controls on any rental units built or occupied after November, 2018.
Yet another thing that our Conservative Premier here in Ontario has done, yet the public is still going to blame the federal government.
That's a shitty move, but people should still request that rent control be a federal law rather than a provincial regulation.
The Canadian conservatives are systematically destroying this country.
Alberta is already headed down the toilet, Ontario is following close behind...
I don't know, landlords are price fixing but economists all think most rent control schemes are a bad thing for housing and rental markets on the whole as well. It really seems that the only solution to fighting end stage capitalism is to just have the government itself compete in the rental and housing markets.
Economists? Or right wing economists?
Just Economists. Rent control accomplishes a very limited amount of goals in an non-ideal way. There's plenty of information available on the internet about the downfalls but it basically all comes down to landlords looking to maximize their returns and doing everything possible to avoid rent control and enshittify things for those already in rent control while at the same time halting private development of any new apartments because they can get greater returns elsewhere...so housing options conversely become more scarce.
Edit: Replied in wrong spot.
It's because of money men like these that I think the guillotine may need to make a comeback.