• 6tring6inger@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Many people bought homes they could afford, that they needed to live in, after passing a very conservative stress test because that was the way you are supposed to buy a home. Nobody expected the interest rates to more than double in a couple of years. It’s unprecedented. Nobody expected our government to do absolutely nothing about inflation and leave it all to the BoC to fix. You are vilifying and generalizing an entire class of people, most of whom do not fall under the cherry picked description you offered.

    Repeat after me: most homeowners are regular people who borrowed responsibly under stringent criteria when they bought their homes.