Bank of Canada raises its interest rate to 5%
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If my family of four can live cramped inside a one bedroom apartment for years, then overleveraged folks can downsize from the large houses they bought during the pandemic. And, if nothing else, it will feel a little like justice.
That's not the discussion here though. It was about how the sharp rise in interest rates will flood the market with foreclosed homes... somehow making it magically affordable for people who couldn't afford a house at the low interest rates.
And now your family of four in your cramped apartment will be competing with a LOT more people for that same number of cramped spaces... supply/demand... it's going to hurt EVERYONE not just the overleveraged. Meanwhile corporate housing companies will be playing Scrooge McDuck.
I don't know who is downvoting you because you are completely right.
At the same time, I am delighted at the idea of a bunch of speculators being stressed out and losing a ton of the money they obtained while making housing unaffordable for everybody else.
Housing can be affordable or it can be a good investment. It can't be both, and it is time it starts being the former.
I don’t know who is downvoting you because you are completely right.
There's a contingent of jaded people who just want to see slightly better-off middle-class people punished for taking any risk in buying their house, rather than actually seeing the housing market become more affordable for everyone. There's always someone celebrating the upcoming foreclosures.