I Asked MPs About Their Real Estate Investments. Most Ignored Me
The Maple reached out to all 133 MPs included in our recently-released landlord database to ask about their ability to fight for tenants.
The Maple reached out to all 133 MPs included in our recently-released landlord database to ask about their ability to fight for tenants.
The Maple reached out to housing and tenant organizations asking for comments on our new database of MPs invested in real estate.
Nearly 40 per cent of MPs continue to be invested in real estate. Times are even harder for renters.
Use The Maple’s searchable database to discover which Canadians MPs are landlords or invested in real estate.
For some landlords, nothing — even a life — is more important than squeezing out as much profit as they can from investments.
The claim that landlords and tenants stand to gain from fixing the LTB obfuscates its crucial role in sanctioning and enforcing evictions.
There’s something in your house, but it’s not a ghost or demon. Rather, it’s the spirit of finance capitalism, in crisis once again.
Vacancy control isn’t a wholesale solution to Canada’s housing crisis, but it will have multiple benefits.
As housing costs and rents skyrocket, a significant number of MPs are trying to profit through investment in real estate.