“Anybody has any doubts where she stands on the housing debate?”

Not much different between her and the current NDP. The current housing minister Selana owns a SFH in both Coquitlam and Victoria. Then you have Horgan who owns 2 houses and Carol James 2 houses. Spencer Chandra Herbert owns 4 properties. Eby recently bought a property in Victoria so it could sit empty most of year while he is supposedly represents Point Gray. All these toothless measures are by design.

NDP’s bold brand is starting to wear thin

By no stretch of the imagination can the latest moves by the B.C. government on housing affordability be considered “bold.”

http://www.vancourier.com/opinion/ndp-s-bold-brand-is-starting-to-wear-thin-1.23280324

Perhaps not bold enough, I agree.

But way better than policies that actuallly promote housing and push prices even higher. Like the ones of the BC Libs.

In Point Grey, Wilkinson is supporting the homeowners. You draw your own conclusions.

The industry isn’t freaking out. That’s your interpretation only.

Bingo.

No hope since the minions here don’t even know what is going on.

Pathetic.

Just Me lusts after a $2m home in Kits.

The difference between a socialist and a capitalist is that a socialist likes to spend other people’s money vs. a capitalist who will create wealth. But socialists still like money, and lots of it. Witness Mike Harcourt who redeveloped his property on Pt. Grey Road and made millions.

http://www.theprovince.com/business/harcourt+golden+mile+windfall+former+premier+family+could+reap+million+profit+from+sale/10846074/story.html

http://www.theprovince.com/business/harcourt+golden+mile+windfall+former+premier+family+could+reap+million+profit+from+sale/10846074/story.html

NDP corruption.

As The Province reported last year, in July 2011 Harcourt — one of Vision Mayor Gregor Robertson’s key advisers — jointly purchased a home in the 2800-block West 1st Avenue for $2.8 million with his son Justen, a real estate consultant. The property is at the intersection of West 1st and Point Grey Road…After several years of development moves the Harcourts’ lot — which was advertised as “waterfront” — is now the picture of tranquillity. The property was being shown Thursday, at a listed price of $9.988 million.

In April 2014, without disclosing his ownership interest in a Point Grey Road bike lane lot, Harcourt — a former Vancouver mayor and NDP premier of B.C. — applauded council’s controversial road closure in a letter to the Vancouver Sun.

“The present Vision council has closed Point Grey Road from McDonald to Alma to through traffic and opened this stretch to pedestrians, joggers, baby pram pushers, bicycles, and local traffic. This act by the current city council brought to completion the April 6, 1886 vision started by our first council — to open Vancouver’s waterfront to all our people.”

Harcourt is, in my view, a crook. He and his son made some really shady deals, and they came out as multi-millionaires.

I do not believe Eby condones that, nor should we. Unlike you, other people are able to take a stand regardless of political colors.

Harcourt is as bad as Christy Clark, Gregor Robinson, and Andrew Wilkinson. We should judge people on behavior, not party allegiance.

What matters is their real actions on housing. That is the real meter of judgment in this vastly corrupt city.

“I do not believe Eby condones that”

I don’t recall Eby naming any of these NDP crooks in his speeches. He did state last year the Liberals were corrupt for taking developer donations and then not putting the foreign buyers tax on presales. Then Eby accepts a $500K donation from developers and exempts presales from the revised NDP foreign buyers tax. You do the math. We won’t know about the full extent of Eby’s corruption until he is out of power. Just like Harcourt. But so far he looks worse.

Surely you have proof of your donations, which in your mind went personally to Eby. Can you provide such evidence, with details of Eby’s involvement,

As for criticizing others, Eby criticized the ones in power at the time. Jenny Kwan, however unpleasant as a person, never had any power (which is probably for the best).

I’ve never known of starving NDP politician….they tend to float like turds …..

Eby ” may” have had altruism as his goal….but like typical NDP…usually F*k up once they get their historical default run in power.

The FACT he is a lawyer could be even more indicting…given all the NDP promises…and he likely knew from DAY ONE what the NDP” could” versus “should” do on such issue such as the housing front.

As usual, it is all relative.

Do you think we would be better off with a Wilkinson?

They have to form committee to study the models first.

Of course the underemployed will be happy because the Robinhood tax only increases the welfare rate for them, and more free needles to the addicts.

Do you even know you make no sense? Needles? Welfare? What are you on about?

Why are developed and RE agents up in arms then?

Stop writing nonsense.

Because many of them own properties over $3M and they don’t want to pay the tax.

And now think: if you have multiple investments and one of them get taxed more heavily, what do you do?

Your tofu brain need to see the difference between primary residences vs. investment. The reason people in Point Grey are angry to the wealth tax because most of them are retired with pension incomes, who already contributed enough to the system. Stop being jealous, and enjoy your basement dwelling life!

Those people are effectively behaving like investors.

Many of them would normally downsize in old age. The main reason they are not doing it this time is because they are hoping to cash in even more eventually.

It’s only fair that a have-not gets to reach into their pocket. You’re entitled to a house on Stephens, after all. You think you’ve worked hard and anything else would be “unfair”.

I certainly think that many investors have made fortune without working at all.

And many others made money criminally or elsewhere, while getting all protections of law over here.

If you think the last 10 years of gains are all normal, legitimate and fair, you are delusional.

Yeah, nothing pleases the stupid bears more than putting their paws to the people pocket and steal their money. Unlucky for bears, people will hold closed to their pockets.

It’s fair. Pretty much anybody with a pulse could obtain a mortgage these last few years. Nobody was unfairly excluded from the ridiculous game. Why on earth would it be unfair?

Because it was rewarding gambling, money laundering and people who did not save but just took chances.

What is fair about a market where valuations are pushed up by leveraging gamblers and foreign money launderers?

It wasn’t gambling. They just knew how to do a buy vs rent whereas you were – and still are – clueless.

Had you worked hard like them, you would have known that enough taxes are paid and more taxes will destroy the economy. But I don’t expect you to know, it’s not your money, so of course, you want more.

The tax is too low to make any difference other than piss people off who have to pay it. Kind of like the new carbon tax on gas. These are tax grabs is guise of housing affordability and saving the planet. The school tax will not make housing more affordable and the carbon tax will not reduce climate change. This is all spin to fool naive people like you into supporting tax increases.

Reread this just me.

If they wanted to solve housing. It would have been done by now.

A fucking year has passed.

I’m not voting for these Guys again. Let the place go to hell.

If they raised income taxes by a fraction of a percent on top income earners would they all quit their jobs or would people stop taking those jobs? No, and this house tax will not cause people to sell or discourage buyers. Make it 10% per year on the value over $3M and you may have a bold measure. Take away the capital gains exemption past $1M and you have a bold measure. This is meaningless token measure that will have zero impact.

That is exactly the point. We work to live so our behaviour will not change. But the housing investors do have other options. They can save in other assets.

It will have an impact. It is already happening. And the fact you don’t want to see it does not make it any less real.

This Robinhood tax will do nothing for affordability. The affordable train has long left the station, and the jealous people are being angry all the time for missing the boat! Bhahahaha!

If it’s so irrelevant why oppose it so viciously?

You guys know this measures hit speculators and money launderers where it hurts. That is why we see so much opposition to them.

Just the registry of owners alone will have a massive effect.

Wrong! This lousy measure hits the local residents the most, and destroy the BC economy. And your tofu brain still dwells in the basement, the NDP is not here to rescue you.

“This lousy measure hits the local residents the most, and destroy the BC economy.”

Wrong. As it has been shown many times, less than 1% of B.C. residents will pay the extra school tax.

It just so happens their all in Point Grey.

As for non-residents, I think they should pay the tax. Housing is scarce in the city: you want the luxury, you pay the price.

Is that one percent from the NDP loud mouth? Then I got a farm to sell.
“You want the luxury, you pay the price”. Finally you are not as dumb as you sound, but why stupid bears keep demand cheap housing in Vancouver?

Inform yourself. The shar3 of B.C. voters paying the price is tiny.

Much of it targets non residents.

And the price argument cuts both ways. Cannot pay the price? The leave, like the B.C. Libs used to say.

Of course, you got nothing to pay in the wealth tax, so it’s nothing to you. But the Robinhood tax can worth a month of pension to someone else. The reason you failed, because you can only see the issue within your tofu brain.