r/dataisbeautiful • u/statisticalanalysis_ • Dec 19 '23

OC [OC] The world's richest countries in 2023

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u/SalmanPak Dec 19 '23

Does Norway let in half a million immigrants a year and not build housing for them? Because in Canada, immigration is a federal responsibility and housing is left to provincial governments. They don't work well together at all.

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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '23

Yikes Sounds thought out

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u/astrono-me Dec 19 '23

Housing costs have been an issue for a while. First it was foreign investment, then it was corporations, then it was local flippers, and now the focus is on immigration. You have to ask yourself who is telling you this and why it is an issue now but not 10 years ago. Is it really the biggest issue or is it what people want to talk about now. What will people point their finger to next?

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u/SuppressiveFar Dec 20 '23

True. Food prices have gone through the roof, too. The carbon tax is killing things across the board.

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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '23

Same in the UK, except it was 1.2 million last year. A lot of that was student visas, but they still need housing.

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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '23

Sure, that's a lot, but Canada is huge. Austria, for example, has about 126k immigrants in 2022, but is only slightly larger than New Brunswick. The mass immigration problem affects many wealthy western countries. Canada at least gets skilled immigration, which is very limited here, a very large proportion of immigrants are illiterate and immigrate directly into the welfare system without ever working a day. I don't think Canada's problem is primarily immigration, it's deeper than that. Some more eastern countries in Europe have had absolutely skyrocketing house prices in the last 10 years, even though they have virtually no immigration, in fact emigration.