Housing Ridiculousness
Can we talk about what’s happening to housing in Canada?
When did it become acceptable to rent out a single bedroom with TWO beds and expect two full-time working adults to share that space like it's a dormitory?
I understand that in emergency situations, people facing homelessness may need temporary shared accommodations. That's a completely different conversation. But cramming two unrelated working adults into one bedroom just to maximize rental income is not a housing solution—it's exploitation.
People who work 40, 50, 60 hours a week deserve dignity. They deserve privacy. They deserve a place where they can come home, close a door, and have their own space without sharing a bedroom with a stranger.
This is becoming normalized because housing has become so unaffordable that people are forced to accept living conditions they never should have to accept in the first place.
We're talking about Canada, not a crowded hostel. Working people should not have to compete for half a bedroom while paying a significant portion of their income for rent.
Landlords who are turning every available square foot into another source of revenue need to ask themselves where the line is between providing housing and taking advantage of a crisis.
Enough is enough. Housing is supposed to provide stability, privacy, and dignity—not maximize profits at the expense of basic living standards.
This has got to stop.
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