On: Canada bans most foreigners from buying homes

[nerdbert]

Sounds like the actual problem is people buying homes and leaving them empty.

Foreigners are just a correlate.

Going after foreigners for this is like banning men from all bars in Canada because of the high correlation between date-rape drug usage and being a man.

[fragmede → nerdbert]

Which, Toronto has a vacancy tax, so that's not an unexplored direction.

https://www.toronto.ca/services-payments/property-taxes-util...