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Housing, Opinion

Reflections on the eradication of Canada’s middle class 

A recent article in the Capital Daily outlines how the housing crisis is eradicating Victoria’s middle class. 

Throughout British Columbia, the average rent and mortgage payments exceed what many people can pay. 

“What’s been happening over the last 10 years is that the share of homes bought by first-time buyers has been declining, and their market share has largely been taken over by investors,” said John Pasalis, president of Toronto-based Realosophy Realty, told CBC News.

He added that, contrary to what many believe, the lion’s share of the investors were domestic owners who purchased a second home as an investment. 

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Energy

Negative Impacts of Rooftop solar will Fall on Investors

Originally Published in Clean Technica 

By Roy L Hales

Screen-shot-2014-03-18-at-3.43.47-PM1PV solar has been increasing at a rate of 50% a year for the past decade. This has led many utilities to question the impact that continued expansion will have on their investors and ratepayers. Andrew Satchwell et al studied the effects of PV solar penetration on two hypothetical utilities. In Financial Impacts of Net-Metered PV on Utilities and Ratepayers: A Scoping Study of Two Prototypical U.S. Utilities, they concluded the negative impacts of Net-Metered PV will fall on investors; Ratepayers may only feel modest losses.

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