CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@deborahh Will Canada ever follow Vienna and its success in challenging the inflationary for profit housing with limited profit housing policy? It brings down housing costs.Start at least with legislation to support limited profit housing . "The system of limited-profit housing in Austria: cost-rents, revolving funds, and economic impactsLimited-profit housing plays a significant role in Austria’s housing market. Around aquarter of all households live in homes owned or managed by a limited-profit housing association (LPHA). These associations are characterised by a distinct business model, based on the premise of cost-recovery and revolving funds. By deviating both from the logic of for-profit housing and from public housing, LPHA occupy a distinct Third Sector role in Austria’s housing market."https://www.housinginternational.coop/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/CIRIEC-WORKING-PAPER_Limited-Profit-Housing-Associations-in-Austria_May2022-1.pdf

@RAHU Interview with Housing activist Jordan van den Lamb anti-landlord “influencer”Australian Capitalism and its parliamentary wing of landlords despises van den Lamb. He outrages conservative radio hosts and has even earned the ire of Labor Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, who owns multiple investment properties, and who publicly branded van den Lamb “a disgrace.”https://jacobin.com/2026/04/australia-housing-landlords-rba-parliament#housingCrisis #Landlords #Rent

NDP's Avi Lewis on the massive buildout of housing needed to solve our #HousingCrisis:"That has only ever happened under public ownership. And that's how it happened in after the Second World War. And that is what is required to solve the housing emergency."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stRMhpbZD5M#Canada #CDNPoli #NDP #CostOfLivingCrisis

The Victoria Tenants Union has made a press release regarding a senior who is being evicted. This is a senior citizen fighting cancer who is basically being punished for not having a computer. https://victoriatenantsunion.ca/media/2026/03/21/senior-evicted-facing-homelessness.html #VictoriaBC #BCpoli I'll even at some politicians to draw attention to this aspect of the #HousingCrisis: @emilylowan@mastodon.social @votetanille@socialbc.ca @avilewis@mstdn.ca

For the non-technical folks among us, vibe-coding feels like a bit of a superpower. My newest podcast guest Emily Manzer isa fellow marketer who is wielding these tools to help Vancouver renters get more information about their housing choices. Landlords can ask you for references & pay stubs, just so they can take up to 45% of your monthly income. And renters don't really have many bargaining chips. Emily's platform Rent Goblin helps address this information asymmetry. Available wherever you get your podcasts, link below. https://linktr.ee/marvynpaul#housing #housingCrisis #vibecoding