my views are not different than they were a few years ago.

but, society has moved it's goal posts rather far to the right, making me seem much more liberal - relatively speaking - than i did a few years ago.

and, i will readily acknowledge this point: the society has become more conservative than it used it to be.

guys, listen.

the university of windsor is the 26th rated school....in canada.

so, even if you're just looking for an excuse to get here, there are still 25 other schools listed ahead of it that you couldn't get into.

it's one thing if you grew up in amherstburg or something. i went to the university down the street from where i grew up, too - and for the reason that it was down the street. i get that.

it's another to fly around the world to get the opportunity to attend classes in a school that is not even well known enough to have a bad reputation.

so, i'm not exaggerating when i call it a diploma mill. but, i understand that it's the only thing pulling people into the city, too.

most healthy people are, in fact, going to interpret habitual marijuana use as exceedingly unattractive.

again: where are the ndp?

have they read any naomi klein?

i mean, forget about calling her and asking her for advice - which they can do, quite easily. have they even read anything she's written?

i expect the liberals to tell everybody to stay calm and pocket the rent - because this is the side of the class war the liberals are on. unfortunately. liberals are supposed to rail against rentiers, but in canada they work for the banks. so, a housing crisis, to them, is neither a challenge nor a crisis but an opportunity to make a profit.

that's fine. it's understood. really.

but, the ndp should be yelling from the trees that this is an incredible crisis of unheard of proportions and using it as a means to push for more subsidized housing.

they aren't. they're just saying the same things the liberals are, because they don't want to be the party of the working poor any more, they want to be the party of brown conservatives - who, as a rule, stand to profit from increasing rents.

this is a huge crisis in housing!

a crisis of unheard of proportions!

a catastrophe!

so, let's take advantage it....

building new houses will create construction jobs, which is something that actually has a multiplier effect. it'll be good for the economy.

and, when the refugees move on, we'll have more supply for people on disability - a problem we've been grappling with for decades.

the feds have announced a program recently, but they need to get on it immediately. and, they need to force the cities to make sure they're spending the money appropriately.

we need shovels in the ground, asap.

maybe, one day, months from now, somebody will launch a commission into what went wrong here, and try to figure out what they should have done differently.

but, i can tell you the report's findings well ahead of time: rather than plan how and where to build the appropriate housing, there was an ethereal assumption that the market would deal with it.

you won't find anybody stating those words, explicitly. no minister has stated "the market will take care of it" - because no journalist had the foresight to ask the appropriate question.

everybody, everywhere, just assumed this would be the case.

but, the homeless crisis that is now upon us - as we slowly hurtle towards the canadian winter - belies that assumption.

the market is not going to take care of this.

the government needed to plan this out.

the problem that they're causing is not financial. currency is a social construct; this is not a real concern.

the problem they're causing is in the availability of low rent housing.

this guy is just assuming that the housing to absorb them already exists. this is the fundamental error everybody is making; the fact is that this housing does not exist.

and, so, if you want to cost this properly - if that means something to you - you have to include the cost of building new housing at the appropriate income levels.

so, how much does it cost to build thousands of new housing complexes that families on welfare can afford to live in? tens or hundreds of millions?

you can't increase the population by 200,000 people in a few months and expect not to have to build houses for them. that's crazy.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/armstrong-refugee-costs-1.4762930

the upcoming danger is that a lot of these rentiers from out of town are going to shutter properties rather than take losses on them.

windsorites need to push back, and try not to overpay. i know that's hard. i might get stuck in the end, too. but we have a fight on our hands. and, we need to work together to put these bastards out of business.

see, this is an example of why i'm waiting.

it's a two bedroom apartment cut out of a house. before the influx of international students, these units would run in the high 600s or low 700s. i had a similar basement unit, initially at 650 (and up to 680 before i moved out). i might be apprehensive about a unit at ground level, but this is similar to what i'm looking for - and should be in my price range.

the place was no doubt bought by some asian guy from toronto, and he no doubt wants to rent exclusively to asian students. so, he's splitting up a two bedroom apartment into rooms and charging $500 a head. but, then he insists on renting the unit together, probably because he legally has to. so, he's trying to rent a two bedroom apartment, but insisting on charging market rent for a room in a big house. i don't want a room in a big house, but a room in a big house comes with certain things - peers, a kitchen, a living room, a backyard. there's none of that, here.

so, he can't rent it - because it's not a room in a house, it's a two bedroom apartment, and market rent for two bedroom apartments of this nature is much less than $1000. it's closer to $700. as he's from toronto, that sounds too cheap to him. so, he's going to let it sit empty in august, because he's trying to charge toronto rent in windsor...

maybe he cuts the price to $300-350 a head for september 1st and rents the unit out.

but, if he stays stubborn and can't rent the unit, what happens on sept 1st?

if it was a basement, i'd offer him $700, unfurnished. that's what the place is worth.

and, there's not a small number of these, either.

rentiers are getting greedy trying to capitalize on this diploma mill, and they're artificially inflating the rent, creating a crisis. a lot of them are going to fail, lose tens of thousands of dollars and ultimately sell the property for nothing. windsor is still an economic backwater with a high unemployment rate and next to no employment prospects. you have to charge below-market rent here, or you're just going to lose a lot of money.

do i have time to wait this out?

https://www.kijiji.ca/v-room-rental-roommate/windsor-area-on/2-full-bedrooms-beautiful-private-all-inclusive-5-min-to-u/1366820048?enableSearchNavigationFlag=true