Airbnb fights back against Toronto councillors’ call for platform to ‘play by the rules’ – Government Creates Homelessness – January 30, 2019

The first thing that has to be established when you go to any Canadian city is that most of the homeless people that aren’t on the streets by choice are indeed homeless primarily because of Government actions. Homelessness is Canada was solved a long time ago, the problem in Canada has always been individuals namely young individuals wanted to be housed in specific areas at housing costs that are affordable by their own standards. If these demands aren’t met, typically there’s some government person there to cater to their needs.

Prior to the government at all levels sticking its noses into the housing and rental markets, homelessness was being tackled, homelessness can never be 00% solved because there are people that are homeless by choice. It sounds odd until you understand that mental is a real thing, worker or employment fatigue is a real thing, people being irresponsible with the income or money they receive is a real thing and government picking welfare winners and losers is a real thing. Furthermore what’s often ignored is the ungrateful people living rent-free housed by either good-natured humans or people’s housed in government subsidized housing. Again homelessness in Canada, for the most part, would have cured years ago, if Canadians would simply wake up and realize that these supposed poor people, a large number of them are honestly irresponsible.

The real homeless people, the people who used to have jobs or the people who may have gone through a terrible relationship or abused in some way, these homeless people would be better served with a clinical psychologist in most instances. It’s a well-known fact that the majority of the homeless are young people, now let’s analyze why most of these young people are homeless? Majority of the youth if you get to know them are homeless primarily because they’re irresponsible. Some have been abused, abandoned etc. but in almost every instance it traces back to mental health-related issues and irresponsibility.

The truth is if the governments removed a lot of these stupid regulations homelessness in Canada would disappear. What’s a stupid regulation you ask? First, one is rent controls. Alberta and British Colombia, one has rent controls the other doesn’t yet they both have a homelessness problem? One would think that Alberta would have a far worse rent control problem than anywhere else in Canada, but nope that reward currently goes to Vancouver, now if you walk the streets of Vancouver, what you’ll find are a lot of people strung out on drugs. In Alberta, the cost although viewed as a Conservative province, a lot of their policies governmental policies are based on picking winners and losers, so, therefore, they’ll have free market zones in one segment of their economy while having price controls or supply management in another sector.

Although I’m picking on Alberta, everybody knows that Vancouver or I should say British Colombia in general probably has the largest growing homelessness problem in Canada, because again rental prices or the price someone pays for rent isn’t always a great indicator of homelessness,

Here are the average rental costs, which include both rent and utilities:

Alberta: $1,279
Northwest Territories: $1,191
British Columbia: $1,148
Ontario: $1,109
Yukon: $1,040
Saskatchewan: $1,021
Nova Scotia: $909
Manitoba: $891
Newfoundland: $836
Prince Edward Island: $817
Quebec: $776
New Brunswick: $741
Nunavut: $737

The source of the above information can be found be clicking the link below:

Here are provinces, cities in Canada with the highest and lowest rent – Global News

You’ll notice however if you click the link below, that homelessness seems to be more problematic in Vancouver.

 

More than 3,500 homeless people living in Metro Vancouver: report – CTV News

The main reason homelessness exists the way it does in Vancouver, of course, revolves around government policies, which the NDP or Liberals will tell their voters targets those rich tax cheats. However, once you apply a business or social regulation and make it a law, what happens is the domestic population who could otherwise solve the problem independently end up investing or putting their money elsewhere, which puts greater strain on the government, who under no circumstance can use legislation or laws to fix a problem that they themselves created.

So I bring this all up because, in order to understand the AirBnB problem that the Toronto councilors are trying to create, a person has to first look at the angle or the excuse these councilors are using to attack AirBnB. The link below states the following:

Thorben Wieditz, a spokesperson for Fairbnb, says the concerns are not about homeowners. Instead, the focus is large-scale commercial operators scooping up multiple homes and units to run home-sharing businesses.

Did you read that? Did you see what happened there? Do you understand that what Thorben Wieditz is trying to accomplish is a one size fits all approach to AirBnB?

Airbnb fights back against Toronto councilors’ call for platform to ‘play by the rules’ – CBC

Now, I want to make something abundantly clear for socialists, you Marxists, and Fascists, Communist China wouldn’t have any money if it wasn’t for their free-market ones. Almost all of China’s wealth is derived from it’s Free Market Zones, most of the government projects in China have all failed, there are ghost cities in China because the Chinese Communist Party central planners tried to anticipate the actions of people. People who are the minds people companies like Airbnb solve problems, solve poverty because they’re given the freedom to do so. Prior to Uber, Taxi Cabs who were given monopolies by the government of Ontario were price gauging consumers, charging Ontarians anything price they felt like, these Cab drivers, of course, would justify their prices in whatever way they wished, the bottom line was unless you went through the government protocol you couldn’t be a cab driver, you couldn’t start your own cabbie driving business.

Airbnb and Uber are still really stupid ideas that only work because rent prices, hotel prices have been artificially raised via government intervention. Because there are no rent controls in Alberta, so it’s a known fact out there that there will be a lot of empty and idle condos in places like Calgary.

Why a whopping 6,500 condo units are being built in Calgary right now – CBC

Toronto has the same problem, but because we’re Canada’s largest city, it will take a longer time for people to figure out that our homelessness problem, our supposed condo boom, our supposed lack of housing problem is a government created disaster. It’s obvious to me, but clearly, these government-created disasters are obvious to Fairbnb spokesperson Thorben Wieditz who like many Marxist derived thinkers doesn’t want to create a business that will solve the problem, instead Fairbnb fights to create a one size fits all regulation to make sure no more creative housing idea are ever created without the Government first micromanaging every inch of profit incentive that business has.

interesting times ahead.