the issue isn't lack of space, even our currently occupied regions are incredibly sparsely populated. housing is looked at as an investment here. no one wants the housing market to come down, so they do everything they can to maintain scarcity. imagine paying a million dollars for a 60 year old 900 square foot bungalow then the market plummets to 200k. no one wants that.this coupled with the insane cost of living up here makes building new houses insanely expensive. basically this country is fucked.
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