Housing crisis is a consistent, predictable outcome of a basic characteristic of capitalist spatial development: housing is not produced and distributed for the purpose of dwelling for all; it is produced and distributed as a commodity to enrich the few. Housing crisis is not a result of the system breaking down but of the system working as it is intended.
David Madden and Peter Marcuse. In Defense of Housing.
It has recently come to light that nearly 40% of Canadian members of parliament are either landlords or otherwise invested in the real estate market, at a time when the cost of shelter, whether renting or purchasing, has become untenable for many Canadians, and government action—when the government has acted at all—has brought little or no relief. Canadians can check this useful list to see if their MP among the forty percent.
