Canadians Unable to Afford Safe Housing Are Turning to Medically-Assisted Death

That may be true, and it would be nice if people here were so considerate as well... yeah that's not happening.

However the ZONING codes could be adopted to much benefit. The BUILDING codes, I still maintain we need to spec even higher, so that I can have a refuge of solitude from the sounds, smells, and presence of Wheaton's Law failing humans.

I'm curious people's thoughts about the housing cost political equilibrium/cycle idea.

Here's the theory: Cost of housing is a major issue for voters. Home owners, especially new home owners, want their homes to increase in value to pay off their mortgage / get return on their investment, while non home owners want to be able to get an affordable mortgage. When most Canadian voters own homes (ie today), a politician causing house prices to decrease is political suicide. So the prices increase.

The housing cost should keep going up until, due to continued immigration/aging of minors, the majority of voters do not own homes. Then at the next election cycle, policy will change, and housing prices will start going down again. Maybe immediately due to raised interest rates, maybe slowly due to kickoff of long scale housing development projects.

The question is, are these forces the strongest influence on the housing market? or are there other market forces which disrupt the political equilibrium (and what are they)?

>the only difference between now and then is we have far, far more regulations and zoning rules in the way.

Some places have more or less run out of land. For example Vancouver is limited in it's north, west and south expansion by mountains, ocean, and an international border respectively. I believe there are similar issues in San Francisco, Seattle, New York, etc.

Indeed, higher density is the answer... I'm just pointing out that the increase in regulations is not the "only" thing that's changed.

How does credit play into the cost of new housing? Do you mean that it's more difficult to secure a loan for new house building supplies than it is to get a mortgage on an existing home?

I'm all for the right to die for people suffering painful terminal illnesses, for the simple moral reason that it relieves suffering itself, and the the cause of much of their suffering is directly the result of surviving long enough, that deep into an illness, because they are supported mainly by technology and medical practices that keep us alive in such a terrible state to where we couldn't end it ourselves if we tried.

However, normalizing death as a treatment option for what is essentially mental illness seems like a modern version of the UK's Blair era "Nudge" policies, where now the ultimate result is the state euthenizing people for compassionate reasons, or at least that will be the pretext, and once it's legal and normalized, it's just a matter of how the papers are filed and the numbers are tallied.

Sure, if you are truly suffering, there is absolutely no shortage of death inducing opioids that will give you a very pleasant end. This government has tacitly already prescribed it by freely addicting small towns to the stuff, and doing nothing about the trafficking from our major trading partner causing opioid deaths.

The part that makes me spitting mad is when you look at the kinds of policies made during the pandemic using truly horrific misrepresentations (e.g. "deaths with vs. of", vaers data fudging, counting deaths less than 14-days of a shot as being from covid and not from vax, "nobody made you do it,"-mandates, "pandemic-of-unvaccinated" propaganda, travel bans for people with antibodies, emergencies act used and repealed before the senate could quash it, orders of magnitude inflated childhood covid death rates, tolerance for allied partisan riots, nursing home packing, internal passport systems, geolocation tracking, unrepealed "emergency" stop and search powers - to name just a few), it's fairly clear they are dangerous and utterly mendacious nihilists, and - what can only be described as "WEF-influenced governments" - absolutely cannot be trusted to manage a "compassionate" euthenasia system.

The housing shortage is related to how this government wants to destroy the savings and standard of living in the country as a means to install permanent technocratic rule, and they are doing it by wiping out wealth and opportunity so as to subordinate the milennial and Z generations to this system. Their messaging reduces to, don't worry, you'll like it, and if you don't, you will just have to find a way to, citizen.

This MAID issue is it's own real end of life issue for an aging boomer generation, but conflating it with prescribing death to the poor and mentally ill (for now) is symptomatic of how bad these people are. It's normalizing the power of the state to do this outside the parameters of humane relief of suffering due to terminal illness, and if you will pardon the pun, that should raise a red flag for anyone.