I have been playing around with various GPTs lately by getting them to help me with my management consulting work. Usually analyzing docs and merging them or two me what the overlap is, etc.
My experience with Gemini pro is that it often completely and spectacularly misunderstands the ask. No other GPT comes close to getting it that wrong. As a result, I don't have a high level of confidence in it.
I find Mixtral to be quite impressive. It is by far the fastest and gives me good output. At least for big documents kind of work.
Housing crisis is because of unsustainably high immigration levels.
In 2023 alone, there was a net inflow of over 1.3 million people. It's a lot for a country of 39 million. Where will they live?
Another major issue is the suppression of wages this causes.
Also there is a serious lack of diversity in the immigrant population (no cap by country as in the US). This is tearing apart the cultural fabric of communities.
If you see someone you want to know more about, just look at their bib. Based on the bib number and/or their partial name that's printed, you can check out the results and they give you a full breakdown about their location, age, and full name. You could even get their photos from the race.
Take those details to social media and you'll have a field day.
That's 405,000 permanent residents only. Add to that hundreds of thousands international students + hundreds of thousands temporary workers + tens of thousands asylum seekers + etc + etc
Those are mostly temporary by definition so I don’t see that as a source of the longer term shortages at the macro level unless it is shown that the size of the student and temporary worker pool is growing significantly every year? Sure, many of those eventually go onto permanent residency but that’s still included in the 400k annual figure is it not?
The number of asylum claimants is overstated in my opinion. Even if 100% are granted, which is unlikely, it is a very small number in terms of population growth.
My assumption is that temporary residents no longer consume housing at the end of their stay in the country so, provided the rate of growth in the number of temporary residents is low, their net consumption of the available housing stock over time would also be low. I haven’t seen the growth figures to judge.
Where we stand today, the absolute number of temporary residents are consuming some percentage of housing but I suggest that is the current baseline and is less useful discussing how to solve the problem going forward, unless anyone is advocating for a net reduction in the absolute number going forward. However, I haven’t seen that as part of the discourse and would consider that an extremely short term measure with its own set of ramifications.
Right, what we need is a net number of temporary residents leaving subtracted from temporary residents coming in. Given that Canada's model is to encourage immigration though, it would be good to have that number.
I’m not disagreeing that a lot more should be done on the supply side but the suggestion of it needing to double comes across as the additional demand equaling 1 home per immigrant which is simply not the case. I would like to see the hard numbers but I would expect a significant proportion to be 2+ families.
Yep, there's a huge amount of international students in Canada and many of them are here for the purpose of eventually getting permanent residency. We are also extremely generous when it comes to granting asylum. My dad actually gamed the asylum process to immigrate to Canada.
Toronto just added 14 new suburbs. Until a month ago, these thousands of acres were considered the "green belt" necessary for the functioning of a large metropolis. Now they'll be paved over.
>An over expensive cesspool of the house owning NIMBY class with terrible traffic and disregard for driving rules
It's actually even worse than that now. With the massive influx of immigrants recently, there are now 2+ families sharing one apartment. It's turning into the worst of the ghettos in many areas. Traffic is worse than ever. GO trains are fuller than ever.
Many people are escaping to Alberta. No respite in sight
My experience with Gemini pro is that it often completely and spectacularly misunderstands the ask. No other GPT comes close to getting it that wrong. As a result, I don't have a high level of confidence in it.
I find Mixtral to be quite impressive. It is by far the fastest and gives me good output. At least for big documents kind of work.