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I generally agree with you, but there's some complexity.
Change all those things too quickly and housing plummets in value. That's great for buyers, but bad for sellers. Some old people have most of their life savings wrapped up in their houses, and some are even using reverse mortgages to make ends meet.
At the least though, they should tax those things, and ramp up the taxes so they're really painful. If an ultra-rich foreigner wants to own a house in Canada and is willing to pay huge taxes for that privilege, maybe that's OK because those taxes can be spent on housing solutions for everyone else.
That’s why you begin by taking advantage of the incoming boomer drop off. They’re gonna start dropping fast. Unfortunately, that’s what most of the wealthy and powerful want to take advantage of too.
I don't know if the baby boomers dying is going to be a big sudden event. If you look at the population pyramid, many boomers are already gone. The rest are going to trickle out over several decades.
Boomers are ‘46-‘64, the oldest boomers are just now turning 80.
Right, and a lot of boomers never made it to 80. If you look at that population pyramid, the deaths really start once people hit 60, which was 2 decades ago for the first people in the baby boom generation. It looks like roughly 1/3 of the oldest boomers are already gone. The youngest boomers are 60, so about 1/3 of them will die in the next 20 years or so.
It's not going to be a big, sudden event.