If you own a small run down million dollar house in Vancouver, let’s take a moment to thank the renters who help pay for some vital services, like the new first time buyer loans and the homeowner grant, the cap of which has just been raised to 1.6 million.
“This is a remarkably lousy policy,” said Thomas Davidoff, head of the University of British Columbia’s Centre for Urban Economics and Real Estate. “You’re going to take money from people who don’t own homes and give it to people who own homes. That seems to be a step exactly in the wrong direction if the dominant issue is affordability.”
Read the full article over at Bloomberg.
