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pqpolitics.bsky.social
You know what would be a good question for a Vancouver plebiscite?

Do you want to drive out domestic #VanRE speculators like Poilievre, #OffshoreGregor, foreign buyers & foreign capital from Vancouver RE market by legislation & only have homes for locals living in them?

#HomesForWhom?

#vanpoli
fight for land banks Memeditorialist @ajhtweeting • 10h Replying to @jhwfung #vanre #vanpoli #vanelxn18 landbank developers 600 luxury residences located in one of the hottest markets in the world. Buy one or more of our pre-construction condos and collect a bonus roughly equal to the current anti-spec and anti-foreign purchase taxes. Also, all of our pre-construction condos are pre-licensed with Air BnB. artist rendering of our latest development Banque de Terre on Thurlow Pete Quily @pqpolitics 2022-10-10 Remember Vancouverites, Mark Marissen's ex wife who he repeatedly campaigned for, Christy Clark during our housing crisis went in a mission to China & Hong Kong to get billionaires and millionaires to invest in Vancouver real estate. Team foreign #Landbanks #vanpoli #vanre OUVER ANKS Need to park your We're opening hun new branches to se NOW! 600 luxury residence located in one of the hottest markets in the world. tit sendering of our latot derelyme! Banque de Terre on Thurlore North Shore News • 2022-10-09 Ex-B.C. Premier Christy Clark introduced herself as a "longtime Liberal" in a robocall urging voters to choose her ex-husband, Mark Marissen, for mayor of Vancouver on Oct. 15. nsnews.com/bc-... Good thing #VisionLegacy & successive civic govts and now @KenSimCity ABC have done sweeping blanket upzoning, city wide! Easy peasy now to demovict & build moar landbanks! And EHT on those? Meh #vanre #FAIL #vanpoli Increasing Empty Homes tax for more rental units? Retroactive refunds to RECartel & investors to keep homes empty, increase profits Arny Wise I•I... • 2023-05-30 A compeling article by nom warning that @Vote4ABC ignores staff report to prioritize approval of #rentals & #housing that's #afford...
October 6, 2026 at 4:54 AM
pqpolitics.bsky.social
B/c left-wing, centrist or right wing govts ALL prioritize & allow:

Foreign buyers

Foreign capital

Domestic real estate speculators profits, like Poilievre, Trudeau, housing minister #OffshoreGregor

VS locals living here

Need Singapore Stamp Tax. 65% for companies etc

#bcpoli #vanpoli #VanRE
CHANGES TO ADDITIONAL BUYER'S STAMP DUTY Additional Buyer's Stamp Duty (ABSD) Rates before Apr 27, 2023 Rates on or after Apr 27, 2023 Singapore citizens First residential property 0% 0% second residential property 17% 20% Third and subsequent residential property 25% 30% First residential property 5% 5% Permanent residents Foreigners Second residential property 25% 30% Third and subsequent residential property 30% 35% 30% 60% Entities/ Trustees Any residential property 35% 65% Housing developers 35%^ + 5%^^ 35%^ + 5%^^ ^ Housing developers may apply for remission of this ABSD, subject to conditions ^^ This 5% will not be remitted and is to be paid upfront upon purchase of residential property Source: Ministry of Finance, Ministry of National Development and Monetary Authority of Singapore #HomesForWhom? #SupplyForWhom? Ban #GlobalWealthHomeHoarders Ban or Annually, not one time, heavily tax #DomesticSpeculatorHomeHoarders Homes for living. Not landbanks for foreigners, foreign capital or domestic real estate speculators like Poilievre and Trudeau
September 27, 2026 at 7:56 PM
pqpolitics.bsky.social
Anyone spouting "more supply! legalize housing" is just a stooge of the real estate industry and young "progressives" in particular need to understand this

www.facebook.com/Lidsville/po... #vanpoli #VanRE #LandBanks
Memeditorialist @ajhtweeting • 10h Replying to @jhwtung #vanre #vanpoli #vanelxn18 landbank developers 600 luxury residences located in one of the hottest markets in the world. Buy one or more of our pre-construction condos and collect a bonus roughly equal to the current anti-spec and anti-foreign purchase taxes. Also, all of our pre-construction condos are pre-licensed with Air BnB. artist rendering of our latest development Banque de Terre on Thurlow VANCoUVer LAND BANKS NEW Need to park your money? We're opening hundreds of new branches to serve you now! pic of duplex land banks CHANGES TO ADDITIONAL BUYER'S STAMP DUTY Additional Buyer's Stamp Duty (ABSD) Rates before Apr 27, 2023 Rates on or after Apr 27, 2023 Singapore citizens First residential property 0% 0% second residential property 17% 20% Third and subsequent residential property 25% 30% First residential property 5% 5% Permanent residents Foreigners Second residential property 25% 30% Third and subsequent residential property 30% 35% 30% 60% Entities/ Trustees Any residential property 35% 65% Housing developers 35%^ + 5%^^ 35%^ + 5%^^ ^ Housing developers may apply for remission of this ABSD, subject to conditions ^^ This 5% will not be remitted and is to be paid upfront upon purchase of residential property Source: Ministry of Finance, Ministry of National Development and Monetary Authority of Singapore
September 13, 2026 at 6:14 AM
news-flows-ir.bsky.social
‘This is not about stopping housing’: Why locals object to Dunsink town proposal

One of Dublin’s largest landbanks is set for a new town bigger than Bray. Its neighbours are concerned
‘This is not about stopping housing’: Why locals object to Dunsink town proposal
One of Dublin’s largest landbanks is set for a new town bigger than Bray. Its neighbours are concerned
www.irishtimes.com
August 6, 2026 at 4:40 PM
paulboone63.bsky.social
Oh great. Welcome to Concreteshire again. Another love-in with developers instead of forcing them to build out their existing landbanks with houses that people can actually afford. Perhaps have a look at the 750k empty homes first, and get them back into use?
July 21, 2026 at 6:24 AM
worldguru.bsky.social
on the remaining 50% (after #Trump 's 50% FLI for plus1 factory)

This can be a very low cost rupee loan, 99yr lease landbanks at negligible cost, & a dedicated, highly trained, factory-specific labour offer (for labour India can offer lowcost home loans, lowcost insurance, subsidies on school/uni)+
February 4, 2025 at 8:45 AM
frenshamrobin.bsky.social
If it means developers, sitting on rural landbanks waiting for permission to build executive homes, that's not radical. Affordable housing, close to jobs, infrastructure, transport, public services is what is really needed. And that probably means social housing in or very close to towns and cities.
December 15, 2024 at 5:25 PM
aldunne.eurosky.social
"also, no pressure whatsoever will be brought to bear on owners of vacant or derelict properties, or of undeveloped landbanks with planning permission. This hands-off strategy will also hopefully help to increase supply but of course, you guessed it, not just yet"

#DerelictIreland
January 31, 2026 at 1:24 PM
cosaingalway.bsky.social
"Calls are being made for link roads to be incorporated into development plans for Westmeath.

Independent Ireland Councillor, Paul Hogan, says the measure could also open up landbanks for housing and other services."

www.midlands103.com/news/midland...
'Detailed' Link Road Plans Needed To Tackle Athlone Traffic Congestion
It's one of the measures put forward by councillors in the town.
www.midlands103.com
April 5, 2025 at 6:56 AM
cosaingalway.bsky.social
"Independent Ireland Councillor, Paul Hogan, says the measure could also open up landbanks for housing."

Where have we heard that before?

www.midlands103.com/news/midland...
'Detailed' Link Road Plans Needed To Tackle Athlone Traffic Congestion
It's one of the measures put forward by councillors in the town.
www.midlands103.com
April 5, 2025 at 6:09 AM
pqpolitics.bsky.social
How many locals living in Vancouver and Burnaby can afford a $1 million home? Criminalize #LandBanks

"In Metro Van, roughly a third of unsold units are priced above $1 million and, in Vancouver & Burnaby specifically, that figure climbs to about 80%"

macleans.ca/economy/real... #Vanpoli #VanRE
#FightorLandbanks woman looking and condos Memeditorialist @ajhtweeting • 10h Replying to @jhwtung #vanre #vanpoli #vanelxn18 landbank developers 600 luxury residences located in one of the hottest markets in the world. Buy one or more of our pre-construction condos and collect a bonus roughly equal to the current anti-spec and anti-foreign purchase taxes. Also, all of our pre-construction condos are pre-licensed with Air BnB. artist rendering of our latest development Banque de Terre on Thurlow piggy bank ontop of condos Vancouver land banks. Need to park your money? we're opening hundreds of new branches to serve you pics of duplexes The CEO of CHC, Evan Siddall, asked Vancouverites not to blame foreigners for the affordability crunch and the swollen housing bubble. While he does have a valid argument (about who to blame). there are a few other things to point out. This is a housing bubble fuelled by cheap and easy credit. available to anyone with a pulse, including foreigners. (The bubble) is perhaps most evident in Richmond, where house prices have soared 80% in the last 3 years, the most of any city in the Lower Mainland. ... Richmond also had the highest concentration of foreign buyers, who accounted for 25% of sales prior to the 15 per cent tax on foreign buyers.... (The CMH's) "study" shows only 2.2% of the condo market is owned by foreigners. But the data was collected by cold-calling property managers and asking them to be honest about their clients citizenship. (It does not seem) like a reliable way to collect data on which to structure future housing policies. So what is the extent of foreign ownership in condos? Well, the Brighouse area in downtown Richmond, which is now dubbed "Ghost City." has the highest concentration of foreign buyers. Realtor Steve Saretsky found 46% of condos sold in a core area of Richmond were âvacant.a (Photo by Graeme Wood illustrates "blacked- out" units.) It's chalk full of brand new condo towers sold to VIP speculators. This year 46% of condos sold were listed as "vacant" (which suggests many owners live outside the city and/or country). This is much higher than Vancouver's 27%, which forced Mayor Robertson to implement a vacancy tax. There are no property managers for empty condos. Nobody hires a property manager to watch over tenants that don't exist. Siddall is right, we shouldn't blame foreigners, we should blame wild studies and the inaction of governments to collect concrete data.
July 16, 2026 at 4:56 AM
pqpolitics.bsky.social
Great. Please call them #LandBanks for domestic real estate speculators or foreign capital vs homes for locals.

Want a big difference in affordability in NYC?

Do a #SingaporeStampTax

0% tax for citizen for 1st home, 20% 2nd, 30% 3rd

60% for foreigners

65% for businesses

#HomesForWhom?
#FightForLandbanks Memeditorialist @ajhtweeting • 10h Replying to @jhwfung #vanre #vanpoli #vanelxn18 landbank developers 600 luxury residences located in one of the hottest markets in the world. Buy one or more of our pre-construction condos and collect a bonus roughly equal to the current anti-spec and anti-foreign purchase taxes. Also, all of our pre-construction condos are pre-licensed with Air BB. artist rendering of our latest development Banque de Terre on Thurlow #HomesForWhom? #SupplyForWhom? Ban #GlobalWealthHomeHoarders Ban or Annually, not one time, heavily tax #DomesticSpeculatorHomeHoarders Homes for living. Not landbanks for foreigners, foreign capital or domestic real estate speculators like Poilievre and Trudeau CHANGES TO ADDITIONAL BUYER'S STAMP DUTY Additional Buyer's Stamp Duty (ABSD) Rates before Apr 27, 2023 Rates on or after Apr 27, 2023 Singapore citizens First residential property 0% 0% Second residential property 17% 20% Third and subsequent residential property 25% 30% First residential property 5% 5% Permanent residents Foreigners Second residential property 25% 30% Third and subsequent residential property 30% 35% 30% 60% Entities/ Trustees Any residential property 35% 65% Housing developers 35%^ + 5%^^ 35%^ + 5%^^ ^ Housing developers may apply for remission of this ABSD, subject to conditions ^^ This 5% will not be remitted and is to be paid upfront upon purchase of residential property Source: Ministry of Finance, Ministry of National Development and Monetary Authority of Singapore
April 17, 2026 at 6:38 PM
pqpolitics.bsky.social
Yes if you really wanna solve the housing problem, you do with Singapore does make it extremely expensive for domestic real estate, speculators foreign buyers and foreign capital to buy up homes to use as #LandBanks instead of home locals can live in
Price locals out of the market or into poverty
April 15, 2026 at 6:46 AM
pqpolitics.bsky.social
yes, please spread the word widely

Homes for locals living in the city.

Or homes for domestic real estate speculators and foreign capital #Landbanks
Memeditorialist @ajhtweeting • 10h Replying to @jhwfung #vanre #vanpoli #vanelxn18 landbank developers 600 luxury residences located in one of the hottest markets in the world. Buy one or more of our pre-construction condos and collect a bonus roughly equal to the current anti-spec and anti-foreign purchase taxes. Also, all of our pre-construction condos are pre-licensed with Air BB. artist rendering of our latest development Banque de Terre on Thurlow
April 15, 2026 at 5:32 AM
pqpolitics.bsky.social
One of the reasons we live in Vancouver we like to look at the mountains

More forests of skyscrapers blocked our views

Will cause more land lift.

Higher rents for renters and retailers, higher costs to buy homes.

Will get more gargantuan #Landbanks and price us out of our city

#vanpoli #vanre
Pete Quily @pqpolitics 2022-10-10 Remember Vancouverites, Mark Marissen's ex wife who he repeatedly campaigned for, Christy Clark during our housing crisis went in a mission to China & Hong Kong to get billionaires and millionaires to invest in Vancouver real estate. Team foreign #Landbanks #vanpoli #vanre OUVER ANKS Need to park your We're opening hun new branches to se NOW! 600 luxury residence located in one of the hottest markets in the world. tit sendering of our latot derelyme! Banque de Terre on Thurlore North Shore News • 2022-10-09 Ex-B.C. Premier Christy Clark introduced herself as a "longtime Liberal" in a robocall urging voters to choose her ex-husband, Mark Marissen, for mayor of Vancouver on Oct. 15. nsnews.com/bc-...
March 25, 2026 at 5:10 PM
pqpolitics.bsky.social
Vancouverites should ask is the city of Vancouver for the people who live and work in it?

Or is it for the #vanre billionaires and multimillionaire developers and the politicians they own, & domestic real estate speculators like Gregor Robertson, Poilievre, Trudeau & Carney?

#vanpoli
Memeditorialist @ajhtweeting • 10h Replying to @jhwfung #vanre #vanpoli #vanelxn18 landbank developers 600 luxury residences located in one of the hottest markets in the world. Buy one or more of our pre-construction condos and collect a bonus roughly equal to the current anti-spec and anti-foreign purchase taxes. Also, all of our pre-construction condos are pre-licensed with Air BnB. artist rendering of our latest development Banque de Terre on Thurlow fight for land Banks woman, looking at a condo Tower filled with land banks to stash, cash and screw locals #COVIDisNotOver... 2023-05-31 ... Good thing #VisionLegacy & successive civic govts and now @KenSimCity ABC have done sweeping blanket upzoning, city wide! Easy peasy now to demovict & build moar landbanks! And EHT on those? Meh #vanre #FAIL #vanpoli Increasing Empty Homes tax for more rental units? Retroactive refunds to RECartel & investors to keep homes empty, increase profits Arny Wise I•l... • .2023-05-30 A compeling article by nom warning that @Vote4ABC ignores staff report to prioritize approval of #rentals & #housing that's #afford...
March 25, 2026 at 5:03 PM
pqpolitics.bsky.social
So now we’ve got at least 3 #vanpoli candidates for mayor, OneCity’s @wazaroff.bsky.social

We might have more because far right crypto bro,Developer and Police Union Puppet Ken Sim is such a massive failure that he makes #OffshoreGregor look competent and not embarrassing, not an easy task.
#COVIDisNotOver. • 2023-05-31 ... Good thing #VisionLegacy & successive civic govts and now @KenSimCity_ABC have done sweeping blanket upzoning, city wide! Easy peasy now to demovict & build moar landbanks! And EHT on those? Meh #vanre #FAIL #vanpoli Increasing Empty Homes tax for more rental units? Retroactive refunds to RECartel & investors to keep homes empty, increase profits Arny Wise I*l... @ • 2023-05-30 A compelling article by @DanFumano warning that @Vote4ABC ignores † staff report to prioritize approval of #rentals & #housing that's #afford Why is Ken Sim here? With increasing foreign interference from China, here we have a mayoral candidate attending an event celebrating 72 Years of Communist rule in China. You'd think public officials would've learned their lesson after 2016's flag raising incident #vanpoli theBreaker.news @theBr..• 2021-10-04 Exclusive: The Trudeau-appointed senator accused of being a Beijing puppet appeared at a Vancouver ceremony celebrating 72 years of #CCP rule #cdnpoli #honoli #vanRF #ufwd #Reiling2022 #hu
November 17, 2025 at 7:32 PM
pqpolitics.bsky.social
#HomesForWhom is the most important question in housing.

All cities and states should do a Singapore style #StampTax.

Entities,( corporations, trusts etc) pay 65% stamp tax for a home.

Foreigners pay 60%

citizens pay 0% on first home, 20% on 2nd, 30% on 3rd.

Homes for living not #LandBanks
CHANGES TO ADDITIONAL BUYER'S STAMP DUTY Additional Buyer's Stamp Duty (ABSD) Rates before Apr 27, 2023 Rates on or after Apr 27, 2023 Singapore citizens First residential property 0% 0% second residential property 17% 20% Third and subsequent residential property 25% 30% First residential property 5% 5% Permanent residents Foreigners Second residential property 25% 30% Third and subsequent residential property 30% 35% 30% 60% Entities/ Trustees Any residential property 35% 65% Housing developers 35%^ + 5%^^ 35%^ + 5%^^ ^ Housing developers may apply for remission of this ABSD, subject to conditions ^^ This 5% will not be remitted and is to be paid upfront upon purchase of residential property Source: Ministry of Finance, Ministry of National Development and Monetary Authority of Singapore Fight for land banks Landbanks developers 600 luxury residences located in one of the hottest markets in the world. Buy one or more of our pre-construction condos and collect a bonus roughly equal to the current anti-spec and anti-foreign purchase taxes. Also, all of our pre-construction condos are pre-licensed with Air BB. artist rendering of our latest development Banque de Terre on Thurlow
September 23, 2025 at 7:34 PM
pqpolitics.bsky.social
Lots of other places pensions can put their money in

renters and home buyers get screwed because they vote for corrupt, corporatist politicians who prioritize getting the rich richer like those politicians themselves & donors

homes should be for living not landbanks for the rich
September 22, 2025 at 3:24 AM
pqpolitics.bsky.social
Huge majorities from multiple ethnic groups support ban on foreign real estate purchases.

Hope Canadians lobby their MPs to permanently ban ALL foreign buyers of real estate AND ALL foreign capital in real estate criminalizing it with Jail time

vs impotent fines

#vanpoli #vanre #cdnpoli #TORE
piggy bank landbanks for foreign buyers to price out Canadians Vancouver land banks need to park your money. We're opening hundreds of new branches to serve you #HomesForWhom? #SupplyForWhom? Ban #GlobalWealthHomeHoarders Ban or Annually, not one time, heavily tax #DomesticSpeculatorHomeHoarders Homes for living. Not landbanks for foreigners, foreign capital or domestic real estate speculators like Poilievre and Trudeau
August 2, 2025 at 6:26 PM
pqpolitics.bsky.social
Homes for whom?

Is the most important question in real estate and it almost never gets asked

Under #OffshoreGregor Robertson, there were many luxury empty condo #LandBanks built to drive up prices and so foreigners could stash their cash

A Singapore stamp tax on homes = makes housing affordable
Singapore stamp tax If you buy more than one home, you pay more if your foreigner and you buy one home you pay 60% if you’re a company and you buy one home 60% and other 600 luxury residences in one of the hottest real estate markets in the world
May 16, 2025 at 2:40 AM
pqpolitics.bsky.social
Carney makes #OffshoreGregor Robertson housing minister

Mr. #25KLunch

Leader of the vision of empty offshore condos party.

China’s cashstashers in Vancouver condo landbanks will rejoice, & domestic real estate speculators, like PP

He made Vancouver more unaffordable

#cdnpoli #vanpoli #vanRE
Condo King Bob’s 25K lunch Y vision Vancouver is so unaffordable Bob Brady demanded real estate developers pay $25,000 to have lunch with Gregor Robertson litre of the vision of luxury, empty offshore condos, party, and mayor Don’t think of the $25,000 mayor McGregor lunch is a bribe think of it as a cost of us return returning your phone calls Fight for land banks piggy land Banks thanks to offshore Gregor Mayor, McGregor Robertson and his vision of luxury offshore empty condos party 600 luxury residence located in one of the hottest markets of the world
May 13, 2025 at 5:25 PM
pqpolitics.bsky.social
#OffshoreGregor Robertson

Mr. #25KLunch

Leader of the vision of empty offshore condos party.

Rich people in China who won the stash their cash in Vancouver condo landbanks will rejoice, also domestic real estate speculators, like Poilievre

He made Vancouver more unaffordable
May 13, 2025 at 5:19 PM
pqpolitics.bsky.social
Yep, & no mayor in decades of Vancouver has banned social housing

ALL of the Vancouver mayors have been #vanre developer puppets.

Left, right or center

But no one has been such a developer puppet as Ken Sim

He wants to pave over the poor to get his billionaire oligarch owners richer

#vanpoli
Fight for land banks Good thing #VisionLegacy & successive civic govts and now @KenSimCity_ABC have done sweeping blanket upzoning, city wide! Easy peasy now to demovict & build moar landbanks! And EHT on those? Meh #vanre #FAIL #vanpoli Increasing Empty Homes tax for more rental units? Retroactive refunds to RECartel & investors to keep homes empty, increase profits Arny Wise Pºl... @ • 2023-05-30 A compelling article by @DanFumano warning that @Vote4ABC ignores † staff report to prioritize approval of #rentals & #housing that's #afford Replying to @jhwfung #vanre #vanpoli #vanelxn18 く landbank developers 600 luxury residences located in one of the hottest markets in the world. Buy one or more of our pre-construction condos and collect a bonus roughly equal to the current anti-spec and anti-foreign purchase taxes. Also, all of our pre-construction condos are pre-licensed with Air BnB. artist rendering of our latest development Banque de Terre on Thurlow Funded by Lululemon Founder Helped Promote Film Demonizing Vancouver's Homeless A group funded by Lululemon founder Chip Wilson sponsored an event that brought together Vancouver's police union and right-wing political activists by Rumneek Johal, Reporter October 14, 2022 Vancouver's police union president, city council candidates and far-right political activists came together at a film screening event last week that was sponsored by an organization funded by the founder of Lululemon.
May 1, 2025 at 12:18 AM
pqpolitics.bsky.social
IF Carney does keep his promises on housing and doesn't just offshore & those home as landbanks like Trudeau enabled or for domestic RE specs?

Will reduce pull of cons

Asshole PP is probably an asshole to his caucus. When they have a non PP leader they may not want to go back to asshole loser PP
April 30, 2025 at 7:09 AM