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WEEK OF NOVEMBER 27 2023 NEWSREEL WITH JEFFREY MCNEIL

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WEEK OF NOVEMBER 27 2023 NEWSREEL WITH JEFFREY MCNEIL

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland, delivered the federal government’s Fall Economic Statement to the House of Commons earlier last week which had some positives – unfortunately most of what was announced won’t take effect for...

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WEEK OF NOVEMBER 20 2023 NEWSREEL WITH JEFFREY MCNEIL

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WEEK OF NOVEMBER 20 2023 NEWSREEL WITH JEFFREY MCNEIL

The Federal Liberals have been on a spending spree with 2 billion dollars for six Canadian municipalities in the last week alone and that’s not all the spending they’ve done.

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WEEK OF NOVEMBER 13 2023 NEWSREEL WITH JEFFREY MCNEIL

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WEEK OF NOVEMBER 13 2023 NEWSREEL WITH JEFFREY MCNEIL

This year, the province of BC has been busy introducing a number of new polices – with some that are about to take effect – we give them a look.

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WEEK OF NOVEMBER 6 2023 NEWSREEL WITH JEFFREY MCNEIL

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WEEK OF NOVEMBER 6 2023 NEWSREEL WITH JEFFREY MCNEIL

CMHC announced that more than 1 trillion dollars will be required to address Canada’s housing crisis and our prime minister’s lack of understanding of the housing crisis lead to tone deaf statements.

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WEEK OF OCTOBER 30 2023 NEWSREEL WITH JEFFREY MCNEIL

Posted in Affordable Housing, Development, Housing

WEEK OF OCTOBER 30 2023 NEWSREEL WITH JEFFREY MCNEIL

Toronto mayor Olivia Chow revealed new plans to build affordable housing that turn out to be old plans with dire consequences.

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WEEK OF OCTOBER 23 2023 NEWSREEL WITH JEFFREY MCNEIL

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WEEK OF OCTOBER 23 2023 NEWSREEL WITH JEFFREY MCNEIL

Last week, we showed how short term rentals aren’t a significant cause of higher rents or supply issues. So, naturally this week, Provincial governments and the Federal government over react by initiating new policies which won’t help the industry and will negatively affect law abiding investors.

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WEEK OF OCTOBER 16 2023 NEWSREEL WITH JEFFREY MCNEIL

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WEEK OF OCTOBER 16 2023 NEWSREEL WITH JEFFREY MCNEIL

After a McGill study found that short term rentals affected rental rates, The Conference Board of Canada study found that there is no compelling evidence that the level of Airbnb activity had a meaningful impact on rents. We look into why they disagree.

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WEEK OF OCTOBER 9 2023 NEWSREEL WITH GUEST HOST VANESSA TOPPLE

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WEEK OF OCTOBER 9 2023 NEWSREEL WITH GUEST HOST VANESSA TOPPLE

In 2017, Vancouver city council approved a program, the Moderate Income Rental Housing Pilot Program – creating incentives for developers to build more affordable rental housing. After 7 years of ineffectiveness city council just approved new amendments.

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WEEK OF OCTOBER 2 2023 NEWSREEL WITH JEFFREY MCNEIL

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WEEK OF OCTOBER 2 2023 NEWSREEL WITH JEFFREY MCNEIL

A look into the Federal government making 20 billion dollars in financing available to try and help jump start stalled purpose built rental construction.

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WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 25 2023 NEWSREEL WITH JEFFREY MCNEIL

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WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 25 2023 NEWSREEL WITH JEFFREY MCNEIL

On October 3rd, the people of Manitoba will head to the polls for the province’s 43rd provincial election – we look at who’s leading and what’s at stake. Plus, a FRPO webinar, HDAA announcement and IPOANS Women in Rental Housing Luncheon.

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