Foreign Investors
Condo towers have become Toronto's new rental housing. In some new buildings, there are actually more tenants than owners, and many of the owners are foreign investors, people who have no intention of ever living in the units they own. As the CBC's Mary Wiens tells us, people who use condos as another way to make money, create unintended consequences for Toronto's housing market.
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