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The Wikipedia article doesn't mention that. They administer most (all?) of the hOuSiNg AfFoRdAbIliTy programs announced by the feds over the past 20 years, so I think they're doing fine financially.

Nope, never happened. My party destroyed the whole damn dark forces army all by themselves and left the city.

Damn, I hate that. I spend a bunch of time on a scenario, but get the balance wrong on the combat portion and the players just cruise through the encounter.

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC; French: Société canadienne d'hypothèques et de logement, SCHL) is Canada's federal crown corporation responsible for administering the National Housing Act, with the mandate to improve housing by living conditions in the country.

Originally established after World War II to help returning war veterans find housing, it has since seen its mandate expand to the mandate of improving access to housing overall.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_Mortgage_and_Housing_Corporation?wprov=sfla1

We're negative doomscrollers, true. But most people seem pretty polite, at least in my experience.

CMHC: am I a joke to you?

After introducing this new licensing pathway, the CPSO registered 351 U.S. physicians between 2023 and the end of 2024, a spokesperson said.

So far this year, CPSO has received registration applications from 240 physicians who are U.S. educated. Most of them are currently practicing in the U.S., the spokesperson said.

This. There has been a huge investment in the tooling around JS. Using TypeScript, you get the benefit of that ecosystem with a decent language.

It isn't perfect, but it's perfectly cromulent.

Huh. Now you mention it, I don't remember seeing androids in Shadowrun either.

Cyberpunk RED has full body conversion cyborgs, but no androids that I've seen.

After the Fourth Corporate War, people are pretty leary of connectivity (hence the city nets) and AI (also city nets).

At my table, I'd play most NPCs as hostile towards androids because they're too similar to AI.

It's the RCMP investigation. IIRC that was announced a couple of hours before he quit.

Take a look at the global feed. Subscribe to what you like. Eventually you'll have enough.

okay fine i'll get some

I only heard Coast to Coast a few times. The first couple of times I thought it was some kind of radio play (like the ones they used to play late on CBC) or art project. When I realized the callers were sincere, it just seemed sad.

Thanks! I'll take a look.

But the government won't wait for such developers to volunteer. Instead it'll start the development itself, perhaps hiring developers to execute the actual building.

That's what I'm afraid of: Canadian transit has suffered due to that kind of public/private partnership.

Whatever arrangement the new crown corporation arrives at, I hope they're able to keep costs down.

The government isn't really exploring other options.

Trudeau (to his credit) talked about limiting capital gains exemptions over 250k (which could take some money out of housing), but the Liberals, CPC, and NDP allowed that to die.

There hasn't been talk of a tax on home sales over a certain value.

There hasn't been serious talk of cracking down on money laundering or mortgage fraud.

The Liberal and CPC have both talked about limiting municipal regulations as a way for developers to (somehow) build cheaper buildings.

The problem I'm trying to highlight is that this plan may give developers sweetheart deals, but leave housing prices at unaffordable levels.

It may not, but the strategy of flooding the market will fail if we don't manage to build enough houses.

Definitely, but I don't think the CMHC study distinguishes between unit types, nor do housing start stats. I believe we had 225k starts for the last couple years. We need to increase those numbers dramatically to improve affordability.

We cannot contunue to rely on capitulating to and deregulating private developers and expecting them to act in any way other than own self-interest. They have no incentive to bring down the cost of homes. It is now crystal clear that the neo-liberal solution does not work.

I'm hoping to see more details about how production will be split. The article/release describes the new organization as both overseeing and building. I really want the emphasis to be on building, since that will allow them to push down sale or rental costs of the final product. .

I'm under the impression that it's simply increasing supply to flood the market and meet demand. I don't believe that CMHC analysis included price controls. It's been a while since I read it though.