Dean Tester
@DeanTester
🇨🇦 • Conservative • YIMBY • Digital Marketing • Founder @AffordableOtt • President @testerdigital
A Dutch city banned investment properties ('buy-to-let') — here's what happened: - Home prices stayed the same - Rents went up - Wealthy families replaced working class people in neighbourhoods Why? Banning investment properties doesn't add new housing supply — but it does…
🚨NEW PAPER 🚨: Do investors raise housing costs, crowd-out first-time homebuyers, and change neighborhoods? My non-twitter co-authors and I study this question by tracking the impact of ban on buy-to-let investment. We can do so almost in real-time! A 🧵(1/14)
This week on @CurseOfPolitics we talked about housing as a campaign issue gone quiet in government. Dropping today on #TheHerleBurly pod: my conversation with Conservative party housing critic, @ScottAAitchison. Subscribe on @airquotesmedia YouTube. 📺 youtube.com/@airquotesmedi…
Instead of speeding things up, the latest Housing Minister wants to create another costly federal agency to do what the Canada Lands Company already does. But we don’t have a shortage of builders—we have too much government getting in their way. We need more homes, not more…
"No, I wouldn't." 🤣. Honestly PM @stephenharper is the most normal human being ever to be a world leader.
An entertaining insider account of life at Facebook, Careless People, starts with an awkward meeting between Mark Zuckerberg and Canadian PM Stephen Harper at a 2015 international summit in the Panamanian jungle.
Nobody makes more money on housing than government. About 20% of a new home's price is government taxes, charges, and fees—buried in your mortgage, compounding for 25 years. We need to reduce the burden of government to restore the dream of homeownership.
Homelessness. Hunger. Mental health. These aren’t just big city problems. They exist here too—often hidden, but growing. The Parry Sound–Muskoka Community Fund helps the people doing the work to fix them. 🔗 Link in bio to give.
If this is what Liberal success looks like… we are in deep trouble Canada.
Toronto got $471M in housing accelerator funding. The result? ⬆️ 40% increase in homebuilding taxes ⬇️ 58% drop in housing starts. ⬇️ A broken promise on sixplexes. The latest housing minister calls this a success... It’s not. It’s a warning. We need to cut the red tape, lower…
Toronto got $471M in housing accelerator funding. The result? ⬆️ 40% increase in homebuilding taxes ⬇️ 58% drop in housing starts. ⬇️ A broken promise on sixplexes. The latest housing minister calls this a success... It’s not. It’s a warning. We need to cut the red tape, lower…
The best reason Ontario should move towards an education policy that looks more like BC’s is that there are no good reasons not to. @GinnyRothTO and I make the case for ed pluralism in Ontario in @TheHubCanada (link below)
So steel, aluminum, auto export tariffs and the threatened tariffs on pharmaceuticals, lumber and copper so we can keep supply management? cbc.ca/news/politics/…
They’re not ok with that.
More Canadians are buying their first homes later in life, and they’re okay with that theglobeandmail.com/investing/pers…
Cities like this are so beautiful (I own all the parking lots)
Deachman: City fees are squeezing small developers out of rental housing ottawacitizen.com/news/local-new… via @ottawacitizen