Canada's housing market has reached a breaking point. In this episode of The Flow: Real Estate & Money, Alex McFadden exposes the harsh realities behind the affordability crisis. A $1.011 million home is now considered "affordable" despite requiring two six-figure incomes and a $202,000 down payment. Foreign buyer taxes and bureaucratic permit delays have only worsened the problem.
Alex breaks down the systemic failures locking out an entire generation from homeownership and examines potential solutions, from streamlining approvals to aligning immigration with housing construction. This is an unfiltered look at who's being left behind and what it will take to fix Canada's broken housing market.
Listen for the hard truths about real estate, policy failures, and the path forward.
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