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Maybe I didn't read this right but how is this drawing contrast to conservatives? Are conservatives promising to make housing more expensive? Feels like all politicians from every corner of the political spectrum will sell themselves as affordability-focused.
Of course, I'm not defending that conservative policies for affordability work. They don't. Just like their policies for public safety, transportation, healthcare and most things don't, because they're naive and backwards.
Still, they'll still market themselves in defense of affordability, safety, transportation, health etc. So declaring oneself as "affordability-focused" is not a differentiating factor.
You'll find the Liberals and Conservatives are frequently presented as being a opposite spectrums. When in reality their political goals is essentially just based off of capitalism at a higher level.
Liberals will say that Canadians would starve if we dont treat the Weston's favourably while Conservatives will say we'd all be walking to work of we don't treat O&G favourbly. You could also look at how they value people for example both parties would tax doctors out the ass compared to housing investors.
I think the contrast is that the Conservatives have talked about addressing the supply side rather than the demand side. Pollievre has talked about "removing the gatekeepers" to allow more homes to be built.
I'm not sure if cities are actually making it hard to build more homes. But I would guess that from a city's perspective, you'd want to limit the rate of new homes being built so you can keep your land valuations as high as possible to maximize property tax revenue. But again, that's just a theory. And not sure the Conservatives could do anything about that anyway if it were the case