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Topic	Geee... I wonder why there's a labour shortage...
Blightzkrieg 11/27/21 1:09:42 AM #133:	adjl posted... Pretty much. It's what's happening here (Halifax, NS): We've got a major housing crisis brought on by overwhelming demand due to people moving here from Toronto and the like because they want to live somewhere cheaper and now have the option. Emergency rent control was put in place for Covid, and ultimately extended until the crisis is resolved despite the premier insisting that it shouldn't be, and many tenants have been explicitly told by their landlords that that rent cap is the only reason their rent isn't doubling on their anniversary date. Homeless camps have become common, as have police raids on them despite a general lack of public support for such extreme measures and a complete absence of anywhere else for them to go. Left unchecked, I see the endgame of this being that everyone that isn't working in a high-paying job is just going to leave the province, at which point the local economy is going to collapse because minimum wage jobs are the basis for so many essential industries (note that the vast majority of "essential" workers also happen to be workers that everyone insists don't deserve a livable wage. Go figure). It's very much a problem, one which greedy slumlords and developers are ignoring because of the potential to realize short-term gains at the expense of a functional city. I visited Halifax last month and was shocked by the amount of homeless camps I saw. The fact that the housing/wage crisis has been ignored for so long and continues to be ignored is fucking unreal. When people start burning shit down, I can't say I'll blame them. --- https://imgur.com/1XbPahR <cite>Blightzkrieg posted [p:960387101] in Geee... I ... [t:79768487]...</cite> <quote>adjl posted... </cite> <quote>Pretty much. It's what's happening here (Halifax, NS): We've got a major housing crisis brought on by overwhelming demand due to people moving here from Toronto and the like because they want to live somewhere cheaper and now have the option. Emergency rent control was put in place for Covid, and ultimately extended until the crisis is resolved despite the premier insisting that it shouldn't be, and many tenants have been explicitly told by their landlords that that rent cap is the only reason their rent isn't doubling on their anniversary date. Homeless camps have become common, as have police raids on them despite a general lack of public support for such extreme measures and a complete absence of anywhere else for them to go. Left unchecked, I see the endgame of this being that everyone that isn't working in a high-paying job is just going to leave the province, at which point the local economy is going to collapse because minimum wage jobs are the basis for so many essential industries (note that the vast majority of "essential" workers also happen to be workers that everyone insists don't deserve a livable wage. Go figure). It's very much a problem, one which greedy slumlords and developers are ignoring because of the potential to realize short-term gains at the expense of a functional city.</quote>I visited Halifax last month and was shocked by the amount of homeless camps I saw. The fact that the housing/wage crisis has been ignored for so long and continues to be ignored is fucking unreal. When people start burning shit down, I can't say I'll blame them. --- https://imgur.com/1XbPahR</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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